The Wordstock 10

Wordstock, a literary art and education organization based in Portland, Oregon, began this annual competition in 2007 to celebrate the outpouring of extraordinary contemporary short fiction written around the world. To date, the contest has received entries from every US state, as well as, Mexico, Canada, England, Ireland, France, Denmark, Brazil, Australia, Nepal, and Puerto Rico. Any proceeds from the competition are used to support Wordstock’s professional development programs for K-12 teachers, as well as creative writing instruction for their students and families, in under-resourced schools in our community. Wordstock would like to thank this year’s preliminary judges: Eric Anderson, Eden Bainter, Katrina Bell, Kevin Blada, Alex Broderick-Forster, Robyn Crummer-Olson, Alice Cuprill-Comas, Timothy Crippen, Shelley Devine, Nancy Ellis, Karen Karbo, Amber Keller, Steve Lanning, MaryMargaret Maitland, Sarah Mussio, Joshua Simko, Chris White, Lidia Yuknavitch and Gail Zuro.