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Reader nominations for Million Writers Award

The 2006 Million Writers Award is now CLOSED for nominations. This page was for INDIVIDUALS to nominate one short story published in an online magazine and all of the nominations can be seen below. Nominations from editors of online magazines can be seen here.

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Posted by Jason Sanford on February 14, 2006 07:22 PM |

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DOING WHAT I CAN FOR THE MINOTAUR MIND by Timber Masterson
http://www.3ammagazine.com/fiction/2005/jun/minotaur_mind.html

Posted by: Timmy Waldron | February 14, 2006 08:22 PM

TIME IS NOT A PRIVILEGE by Katrina Denza
http://libweb.sfasu.edu/real/vol30-1/timeisnotaprivilege.htm

Posted by: Mary Akers | February 14, 2006 09:33 PM

AT THE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP by Tom Bradley
http://www.nthposition.com/atthecreativewriting.php

Posted by: Tom Bradley | February 14, 2006 09:49 PM

"And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street" by Richard Grayson

http://jmww.150m.com/Grayson.html

Posted by: Richard Grayson | February 14, 2006 10:03 PM

"Between Breath and a Word" by Bill Collopy
http://www.dublinquarterly.com/03/f_bcollopy.html

Posted by: Bill Collopy | February 14, 2006 11:22 PM

"The Quarterback" by Michael Marsh

http://www.thecheers.org/article_919_The-Quarterback.html

Posted by: Michael Marsh | February 14, 2006 11:26 PM

"Pieces" by Michael Hartford
http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com/winter04/mhartford.shtml

Posted by: Michael Hartford | February 15, 2006 12:56 AM

"Anhedonia" by Colin O'Sullivan

http://www.thievesjargon.com/content/workview.php?work=335

Posted by: John W. Sexton | February 15, 2006 01:22 AM

"We Three Thieves" by Sean Meriwether
http://velvetmafia.com/17/meriwether.php

Posted by: Adam Greenway | February 15, 2006 01:38 AM

The Book End
by
John W. Sexton

http://www.verbsap.com/2005dec/deccompetitionresults.html#second

Posted by: Colin O'Sullivan | February 15, 2006 01:50 AM

"1001 Ways to Defeat Green Arrow" by Richard Grayson

http://www.tokyogumbo.com/Richard_Grayson/

Posted by: Jordan Cirelli | February 15, 2006 02:10 AM

"The Gadget" by P. Terrence McGovern
http://www.verbsap.com/2005febmcgovern.html

Posted by: Laura Tien-Mei Lee | February 15, 2006 02:40 AM

Why I'll Always Wear Layers by Caroline Kepnes
http://eyeshot.net/kepnes1.html

Posted by: Lauren Heller | February 15, 2006 04:34 AM

Enoch Arden's One Night Stands by Jacob Appel

http://www.newmillenniumwritings.com/Issue15/nmw15-fiction-Jacob-Appel.html

Posted by: Daniel Meller | February 15, 2006 05:42 AM

"A Suitable Girl" by Gokul Rajaram
http://www.eclectica.org/v9n2/rajaram.html

Posted by: Gokul Rajaram | February 15, 2006 06:26 AM

Sive's Vision
by John W. Sexton
http://www.verbsap.com/2005.oct/sexton.html

Posted by: Eileen Sheehan | February 15, 2006 11:33 AM

"Korematsu Love" by Steven Gillis

http://www.tryst3.com/issue13/gillis.html

Posted by: Steven Gillis | February 15, 2006 12:10 PM

Joining the Chorus

by

Susan B. Townsend

http://www.theroseandthornezine.com/Spring05/Chorus

Posted by: Martin Kidman | February 15, 2006 12:35 PM

"Land of the Golden Giants" by Richard Grayson

http://www.friggmagazine.com/issuenine/splashpages/grayson.htm

Posted by: Ray Toepfer | February 15, 2006 01:06 PM

"Namesake" by Justin Crouse
http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/vol2iss1/crousenamesake.html

NOTE: This story has been nominated by multiple readers. Due to space constraints, only this nomination is listed.

Posted by: Tricia Hurley | February 15, 2006 01:16 PM

"Writ in Water" by Constance Squires

http://www.eclectica.org/v9n4/feature.html

Posted by: Clay Matthews | February 15, 2006 01:58 PM

The Other's Shoe
by Joseph Guderian
http://www.epicentermagazine.org/short.htm

Posted by: Joseph Guderian | February 15, 2006 02:04 PM

"Vampires of Northwest Arkansas" by Richard Grayson

http://www.verbsap.com/2005febgrayson.html

Posted by: Rona Berman | February 15, 2006 02:07 PM

"What They Did That Winter" by Richard Grayson


http://www.mosaicminds.net/prose_definingmoments_thatwinter

Posted by: Marc Eliot Grayson | February 15, 2006 03:05 PM

A Garage With No Windows by Mark Martin

http://www.verbsap.com/2005dec/martin.html

Posted by: Mark Martin | February 15, 2006 03:08 PM

"Our Best Measure," by Anne Leigh Parrish
http://www.fictionwarehouse.com/yr03/stories/050518.asp

Posted by: Anne Leigh Parrish | February 15, 2006 03:10 PM

"No One Can Swim to the Moon"by Miriam N. Kotzin
Eclectica Fiction

http://www.eclectica.org/v9n4/kotzin.html

Posted by: Joe Danciger | February 15, 2006 03:15 PM

www.wanderingarmy.com/archives/65.html

My Twelfth Twelfth Story Story by Richard Grayson

Posted by: Satnam K Khalsa | February 15, 2006 03:50 PM

"Trumpet Field" by Janet Nodar
http://www.athicket.com.

Posted by: Vikki Finch | February 15, 2006 04:02 PM

"Whisper California" by Vishal Khanna
http://www.thievesjargon.com/content/workview.php?work=461

Posted by: Chris Yelverton | February 15, 2006 04:12 PM

"Our Gift and Our Curse" by Kim Harrington
http://www.hardluckstories.com/summer2005/Gift-Harrington.htm

Posted by: Kim Harrington | February 15, 2006 04:18 PM

"Three Scenes from My Life (With Special Guest Star Truman Capote)" by Richard Grayson
http://methree.net/archives/2005/January/graysoncapote.html

Posted by: Nina Mule | February 15, 2006 04:27 PM

"I Am Gone"

by

Laura Hird

http://www.barcelonareview.com/48/e_lh.htm

Posted by: Elizabeth Glixman | February 15, 2006 04:52 PM

"Everybody's Gotta Eat"
by Kevin Winchester

http://www.southernhum.com/kevin-winchester/

Posted by: Kevin Winchester | February 15, 2006 04:54 PM

The Girl with the Diamond Tattoo by Steven Gillis
http://www.summersetreview.org/06winter/diamond.htm

Posted by: Mary Gillis | February 15, 2006 04:55 PM

"1980: A Memoir About a Loss and a Win" by Robin Slick

http://http://www.slowtrains.com/vol5issue1/slickvol5issue1.html

Posted by: Ken Tritoni | February 15, 2006 05:05 PM

"The Twice-Sold Plot" by Paul Vidich

http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=649

Posted by: Paul Vidich | February 15, 2006 05:13 PM

"Red Badge of Nothing" by Victor Lana (Jr.)

http://www.combat.ws/S3/BAKISSUE/CMBT03N3/REDBADGE.HTM

Posted by: Victor Lana Sr. | February 15, 2006 06:12 PM

"Detroit to Seattle Transplant" by Scott Miles

Posted by: Marc Paoletti | February 15, 2006 06:16 PM

"My Son, the Priest" by Caroline Kepnes
http://www.barcelonareview.com/47/eck.htm

NOTE: This story has been nominated by multiple readers. Due to space constraints, only this nomination is listed.

Posted by: kathleen kelly | February 15, 2006 06:19 PM

"A Pirouette Before He Went Falling" by John Pluecker
http://www.juliemango-publications.com/pages/71/index.htm

Posted by: John Pluecker | February 15, 2006 06:37 PM

"The Road to Carville" by Pat Tompkins
http://www.blreview.org/issue_fall2005/carville.pdf

Posted by: Pat Tompkins | February 15, 2006 07:02 PM

"Schmuck Brothers of East Harlem" by Richard Grayson

http://www.apogeemag.com/prosepoetry/schmuck.html

Posted by: Sharon Booth | February 15, 2006 07:04 PM

"Whos Charlie" by Martin Treanor
http://www.spinetinglermag.com/fall2005story4.htm

Posted by: Martin Treanor | February 15, 2006 07:15 PM

Living Things by Kate Watson
http://www.spinetinglermag.com/thirdplacewinter2005.htm

Posted by: Kate Watson | February 15, 2006 07:40 PM

"Love Letters" by Erik Smetana
http://thievesjargon.com/content/workview.php?work=246

Posted by: E. Eugene Henry | February 15, 2006 07:52 PM

"Girls of the Cross" by Vishal Khanna
http://www.fictionwarehouse.com/yr03/stories/050629.asp

Posted by: Jed Schlanger | February 15, 2006 07:53 PM

"A Trick of the Mirror" by Donna Gagnon
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue184/trick_mirror.html

Posted by: Doug Pugh | February 15, 2006 08:30 PM

"Schmuck with an Underwood" by Bryon Quertermous
http://skivemagazine.com/stories200509sept/shmuck.html

Posted by: Bryon Quertermous | February 15, 2006 08:45 PM

"M and Cornelia" by Kathy Karlson (http://www.eclectica.org/v9n4/karlson.html) 3,836 words

Posted by: Deborah Ager | February 15, 2006 08:49 PM

Why I'll Always Wear Layers
Caroline Kepnes
http://eyeshot.net/kepnes1.html

Posted by: Jonathan Troen | February 15, 2006 08:54 PM

Duraznitos by Liliana V. Blum, translated by Toshiya Kamei

http://www.eclectica.org/v9n4/kamei.html


Posted by: Hilda Venzor | February 15, 2006 08:55 PM

"Looting in Irak",Robyn Singer Rose http://www.outsiderink.com/05/fall/rose.php readership

Posted by: Robyn Singer Rose | February 15, 2006 09:09 PM

"Two Totally True Tales Featuring The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Cupid"
by Richard Grayson

http://www.barrelhousemag.com/grayson.html

Posted by: Humberto Montoya | February 15, 2006 09:37 PM

The Expatriate Takes A Picture, By Jason Rice
published 2005 on The Istanbul Lit Review.

Posted by: Jason Rice | February 15, 2006 09:48 PM

"Drinking in Iranduba" by Jarda Cervenka
http://www.whistlingshade.com/0501.html

Posted by: Barry Simms | February 15, 2006 09:53 PM

"(Mis)Adventures in Consciousness" by Ed Hamilton
http://www.mississippireview.com/2005/Vol11No1-Jan05/1101-010805-Barr.html

Posted by: Sandy Cole | February 15, 2006 09:59 PM

"The Convert"
By Hugo Vaughn
http://velvetmafia.com/18/vaughn.php

Posted by: Cheryl Diane Kidder | February 15, 2006 10:29 PM

"I Saw Mommy Kissing CitiCorp" by Richard Grayson

http://cautionarytale.com/features/mommykissing.htm

Posted by: Randy Tunkel | February 16, 2006 12:45 AM

"Detroit to Seattle Trasplant" by Scott Miles

Posted by: Scott Miles | February 16, 2006 02:04 AM

"Sheheerazade For Natasha" by Buki Papillon

http://www.webdelsol.com/Del_Sol_Review/dsr13/nv-buki.htm

Posted by: Michael Graves | February 16, 2006 02:06 AM

"If You Leave Me Behind Now I Will Not Be the Same" by Lou Amodeo

http://www.friggmagazine.com/volumeonearchive/ifyouleavemebehind.htm

Posted by: Lou Amodeo | February 16, 2006 03:23 AM

Killing Time In Oklahoma by Scott Ford

Posted by: Scott Ford | February 16, 2006 03:53 AM

"Detroit to Seattle Transplant" by Scott Miles
http://www.the2ndhand.com/itineraries/detroit.html

Posted by: Paul Grens | February 16, 2006 04:32 AM

"Praying For Release" by RL Scott

http://www.skivemagazine.com/stories200509sept/prayingfor.html

Posted by: Robin Evans | February 16, 2006 06:12 AM

"Seahorhes" by Robin Evans
http://www.eclectica.org/v9n4/evans.html

Posted by: RL Scott | February 16, 2006 06:33 AM

"Grey White Yellow" by Mita Ghose

http://www.gowanusbooks.com/Mita_Ghose_GWY.html

Posted by: Mita Ghose | February 16, 2006 06:42 AM

"What to Do?" by Sean Ennis

http://www.swinkmag.com/ennis.html

Posted by: Erik Mischker | February 16, 2006 06:48 AM

"On my birthday i'll be free." by Matano Lipuka.
http://www.author-me.com/fict05/onmybirthday.htm

Posted by: Robert Matano | February 16, 2006 07:56 AM

"On my birthday i'll be free." By Matano LIpuka. http://www.author-me.com/fict05/onmybirthday.htm

Posted by: Robert Matano | February 16, 2006 07:59 AM

Strange Cabbages by D.A. Taylor
http://www.eclectica.org/v9n4/taylor.html

Posted by: Corbitt Nesta | February 16, 2006 08:18 AM

"Colour of Friendship"
by Debra Broughton
http://wordriot.org/template.php?ID=539

Posted by: Kirsten Neke | February 16, 2006 09:25 AM

"A Field Guide to Ugly Places" by Patrick Samphire
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050606/field_guide-f.shtml

Posted by: Stephanie Burgis | February 16, 2006 10:22 AM

"The Wading Pool" by Steve Finbow

Posted by: Jack Grenier | February 16, 2006 11:30 AM

"Stitching Time" by Stephanie Burgis
http://www.forteanbureau.com/mar2005/Burgis/index.html

Posted by: Patrick Samphire | February 16, 2006 12:07 PM

"Miracle Grow" by Scott Cook
http://www.verbsap.com/2005sept/cook.html

NOTE: This story has been nominated by multiple readers. Due to space constraints, only this nomination is listed.

Posted by: Andrew Cook | February 16, 2006 01:20 PM

"Sister Carleen Swanson's Revelation" by Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

http://www.dfire.org/x1362.xml

Posted by: Roy McCrae | February 16, 2006 01:48 PM

"El Corazon" by Kathy Flann
http://www.barcelonareview.com/46/e_kf.htm

Posted by: Ian Chapman | February 16, 2006 02:11 PM

"Famous Fathers" by Pia Z. Ehrhardt

http://narrativemagazine.com/content/view.php?i=46&t=html&a=1

Posted by: Kathy Fish | February 16, 2006 02:25 PM

"Considering Moving to Mississippi, a Storm Hits" by Sean Ennis

http://www.pindeldyboz.com/seconsideringmovingtomississi.htm

Posted by: Will Gorham | February 16, 2006 02:27 PM

"The Night Elvis Came to Beale Street" by Corey Mesler http://www.bedfordnovel.com/fifteenproject/six41505.htm

Posted by: L. Ward Abel | February 16, 2006 03:14 PM

"El Corazon" by Kathy Flann
http://www.barcelonareview.com/46/e_kf.htm

Posted by: Lucy Collins | February 16, 2006 03:19 PM

"Waiting" by Amy Kiger-Williams

http://pindeldyboz.com/akwwaiting.htm

Posted by: Amy Kiger-Williams | February 16, 2006 04:31 PM

"Stars" by Sarah Sarai.
http://www.verbsap.com/2005mar/sarai.html

Posted by: Steve Espinola | February 16, 2006 04:43 PM

"The Best Rosh Hashanah Ever" by Richard Grayson

http://www.mississippireview.com/2005/Vol11No2-Apr05/1102-040105-grayson.html

Posted by: Pam Saletan | February 16, 2006 04:45 PM

"Wasted Ink" by Marc Lowe
http://www.internetfiction.co.uk/shortstories/wastedink.htm

Posted by: Marshall Moore | February 16, 2006 04:48 PM

“Waiting” by Amy Kiger-Williams

Posted by: Sarah Kass | February 16, 2006 04:50 PM

"A Wake in One Zone"
Richard Grayson

http://www.mosaicminds.net/670

Posted by: Linda York Sawyer | February 16, 2006 05:35 PM

"On the Sole of a Nike" by Tomi Shaw
http://www.barcelonareview.com/48/e_ts.htm

Posted by: Cami Park | February 16, 2006 05:37 PM

"Lost in Carver Country" by Greg Ames
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/gacarver.htm

NOTE: This story has been nominated by multiple readers. Due to space constraints, only this nomination is listed.

Posted by: Anya Estrov | February 16, 2006 05:37 PM

Juanita by Tim Wohlforth

www.thuglit.com/zine/thug2/juanita.pdf

Posted by: Tim Wohlforth | February 16, 2006 05:59 PM

"Proposal for a Century Village Ibsen Festival" by Richard Grayson

http://somewhat.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=500&page_id=286

Posted by: Phil & Diana Mule | February 16, 2006 06:33 PM

"A New York Times Exclusive" by Greg Ames
http://hobartpulp.com/fiction/dec05ames.html

NOTE: This story has been nominated by multiple readers. Due to space constraints, only this nomination is listed.

Posted by: Tracey Lander | February 16, 2006 06:43 PM

"I Might Not Miss You" by Michael Hartford

http://www.summersetreview.org/05fall/miss.htm

Posted by: Carolyn Warner | February 16, 2006 06:52 PM

"Let the Reader Beware" by Richard Grayson

http://www.hobartpulp.com/fiction/dec05grayson.html

Posted by: Ashley Acosta | February 16, 2006 07:37 PM

Autumn Moon by Wayne Scheer
http://www.triplopia.org/inside.cfm/ct/471

Posted by: Susan B. Townsend | February 16, 2006 07:54 PM

"Dances" by Timothy Gager
http://www.verbsap.com/2005april/gager.html

Posted by: Frank Elster | February 16, 2006 07:57 PM

"Wrath" by Sarah M. Balcomb

http://www.pindeldyboz.com/sbwrath.htm

Posted by: Lin Bright | February 16, 2006 07:58 PM

"So Very Necessary" by Stacy Taylor

http://www.spoiledink.com/FICTION/short_stories_may002.php

Posted by: Julie Riso | February 16, 2006 09:33 PM

Freddie's Wife by Richard Loehle

Posted by: Richard Loehle | February 16, 2006 10:07 PM

"Perspective" by Jon Fain

http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afiction-009.html

Posted by: Terry Szold | February 16, 2006 10:30 PM

"Kisses on the Forehead"
by Liliana V. Blum
translated by Toshiya Kamei

http://www.hobartpulp.com/fiction/nov05blum.html

Posted by: Barbara J. McGrath | February 16, 2006 10:50 PM

"Incarceration" by Greg Ames
http://www.opiummagazine.com/storyamesincar111605.html

Posted by: Jeff Oliver | February 16, 2006 11:53 PM

"Oranges and Apples" by Richard Grayson

http://www.writethis.com/z09.html

Posted by: Mark Padin | February 17, 2006 12:53 AM

"A New York Times Exclusive" by Greg Ames
http://hobartpulp.com/fiction/dec05ames.html

Posted by: Sara Hurley | February 17, 2006 01:03 AM

"Five Serrated Dreams" by Emily Mitchell
http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2005/mitchell.html

Posted by: Thomas Hopkins | February 17, 2006 02:57 AM

"The Five People You Meet When You Shit Your Pants" Jeff T. Kane and Matt McCord
http://www.thievesjargon.com/content/workview.php?work=393

Posted by: Ken Barse | February 17, 2006 03:44 AM

"Tulsa" by J. C. Frampton

Posted by: Edith J. Frampton | February 17, 2006 03:57 AM

"Urban Reef (or, It's Hard to Find a Friend in the City)" by Marshall Moore

http://www.barcelonareview.com/46/e_mm.htm

Posted by: Marc Lowe | February 17, 2006 06:03 AM

"I Almost Blew My Job" by Willie Smith
http://laurahird.com/showcase/williesmith.html

Posted by: Iain Bahlaj | February 17, 2006 09:36 AM

"Sive's Vision" by John W. Sexton
http://www.verbsap.com/2005oct/sexton.html

Posted by: Eileen Sheehan | February 17, 2006 12:38 PM

"Jim Cherry in the Otherworld" - by Corey Mesler

http://www.alicebluereview.org/one/prose/mesler.html

Posted by: Jeff Crook | February 17, 2006 03:02 PM

“A Jamaican Christmas Story”
by Geoffrey Philp

Posted by: Nadezka Ferro-Philp | February 17, 2006 03:36 PM

WHERE YOU WANT TO GO by Miriam Kotzin in Nuvein
http://nuvein.com/Issue25/fiction25/whereyouwanttogo.html

Posted by: bram james | February 17, 2006 04:04 PM

"The Saint and Sapphira" by Vanessa Gebbie

http://www.absinthe-literary-review.com/stories/gebbie.htm

Posted by: Vanessa Gebbie | February 17, 2006 04:26 PM