Taddeo: Winner Of The Summer 2017 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award
. . . And We Start Accepting Submissions For Our Fall Contest On August 1
Since 2015, when The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award began, winners and honorable mentions have included writers who had never before published a single word—as well as writers who had already received broad acclaim for their novels, nonfiction books, short fiction, poetry, and articles of all kinds.
Lisa Taddeo, author of our our summer 2017 TGS Fiction Award-winning story, “The Donegal Suite,” is one of the latter. At the time she submitted “The Donegal Suite,” she had already earned the first of her two Pushcart Prizes for a short story, as well as attracted a great deal of attention for her nonfiction articles in Esquire and other magazines.
Recently, Lisa also published her first book—a wonderful and searching piece of nonfiction titled Three Women, which has already gotten a great deal of attention in the media. We wanted to tell TGS readers about her book—and also to say congratulations to its author.
Rather than summarize “Three Women,” you can read more about it on its official publisher’s page.
Meanwhile keep in mind that very soon we will begin accepting submissions for our fall competition. If you’re a writer, and you are thinking about submitting a piece, please have a look at our contest guidelines.
Beyond that, we hope you’re having a great summer.
The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award is a biannual competition with cash prizes of $1,000 for the winner and $250 for each of two honorable mentions. On Midsummer’s Eve and Halloween, we publish the three stories we have selected in the most recent running of the contest.
Believe it or not, Halloween is not that far off, and we’ll begin accepting submissions for our fall contest on August 1. If you’re interested, you’ll find the contest guidelines here.
And if you’d like to read our past winning and honorable mention stories, you’ll find them here.
By deadline time at the end of April, The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition had received its largest-ever number of submissions, at well over 300. We’ve been doing a lot of reading since then, and we’re almost ready to publish the winning story and two honorable mentions.
As always, the big reveal will take place on the Summer Solstice—June 21—right here on The Ghost Story website. Also as always, each story will be accompanied an original Andy Paciorek custom illustration. For some chilling reads at the start of summer, make sure you check back with us on the longest day of the year.
And if you entered our contest . . . you may already have heard from us about your work. If you haven’t, we’ll be in touch before the 21st. In all cases . . . thank you for participating in our biannual supernatural story event. Cheers — The Editor
Volume II of our print anthology, “21st Century Ghost Stories,” has just been published. It contains all of our Summer 2018 to Summer 2021 winning and honorable mention stories from The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest and The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition—30 fine supernatural short stories in all!
