Contests and Apologies

We realize it has been quite a while since you last heard from us and we are sorry, but we have been very busy reading short story contest entries and thinking about the special Narrative and Science issue due out this fall/winter. Speaking of the short story contest, the finalists have been selected and are now in the capable hands of the venerable Lee K. Abbott. We hope to have his decision soon so that we may inform the world of the 2007 short story contest winner. We are very excited to find out which finalist he chooses.  In other contest news, the deadline for The Journals Alumni Flash Prose Contest is fast approaching. If you’re an alum, and you have a short story or essay that clocks in at or under 500 wds. send it to us postmarked by September 30th. Check our homepage for more details: http://english.osu.edu/research/journals/thejournal  We promise not to stay away so long next time. It’s nothing personal. In fact, we missed you. So, upcoming posts may not be pertinent, but they will be frequent, we promise.