The storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction
The Top Ten Online Stories of 2003
- "A Union on Independence Day" by Sefi Atta
- "The Unrequited" by Max Dunbar
- "What They Weren't Worth" by Jon Fasman
- "No Donuts" by Amy Havel
- "You Are a 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved to Texas" by Randa Jarrar
- "Solid Gone" by A.C. Koch
- "Self Analysis" by Rattan Mann
- "The Boy With The Hole In His Head" by Gokul Rajaram
- "The Atomic Tellermans" by Jonathan Redhorse
- "How To Catch a Good Girl" by Claudia Smith
Read interviews with most of these writers (thanks to the literary blog Moorish Girl).
Over 600 short stories were nominated for the award (which includes nominations from 51 online magazines and journals, whose editors each selected up to three stories they had published in the last year). From these nominations, a volunteer panel of readers selected their favorite stories, which are listed as notable stories of the year. The top ten online stories of the year were selected by Jason Sanford, who is the fiction editor of storySouth and a three-time judge of the Minnesota Book Awards.
