Writer Recovers from Sore Throat after Winning a $1,010.00 Award.

Short story writer wins $1,010 award and rapidly recovers. Something other than green tea helps.

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Writer Recovers from Sore Throat after Winning a $1,010.00 (TenTen) Award.

St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB)- October 11, 2003 - Seattle resident Maria Dahvana Headley quickly recovered from her ailment when the editors of Word Smitten contacted her to announce she had won the $1,010.00 annual award for fiction for 2003.

In accepting the award for her winning short story of one-thousand-ten words, Headley stated she felt better than she had in weeks.

Award winning author and educator Noy Holland presided as fiction judge for this year's event. In selecting Headley's short story from hundreds of writers entries, Holland noted, "I think the story titled And This One is Just Right tackles a big subject without being over-anxious to provide too much present or historical detail. It dilates nicely, patiently, reveals itself gradually, and the language is careful and energetic. The competition between mother and daughter was intense, but not overwrought; there was room in this, pleasingly, for the accidental blessing."

Holland, a professor at the UMASS, teaches creative writing and is noted for her unique collection of short stories titled The Spectacle of the Body. Read the winning story: http://www.wordsmitten.com/2003native_fictionwinner.htm and learn what it takes to rapidly recover from a tonsillectomy.

Word Smitten Publishing sponsors an annual short story competition known as The TenTen--for its matching word count of 1,010 words and its monetary award of $1,010.00 -- and publishes news and interviews with legendary literary agents (Eric Simonoff, Jeff Kleinman) and book editors. Word Smitten sponsors two fiction competitions with notable authors invited to preside as fiction judges for the annual events. To read award-winning flash fiction, visit www.wordsmitten.com/2003storycove_toc.htm and discover British writer John Ravenscroft's Walking Upside Down.

For more information on Word Smitten's internationally recognized publications, visit www.wordsmitten.com -- an innovative source for book publishing news and home to The Storycove (flash fiction) and Native Shore Fiction (short story) departments. Guidelines for the 2004 fiction events are available online at www.wordsmitten.com/fiction.html or by phone (727) 409-0500.

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