Congratulations to our “Ink” honorable mentions! These are fantastic stories that may not have placed in the top three, but nevertheless were in the top 40 based on our judges’ scores. These authors should be extremely proud of this accomplishment, especially given that we received 384 stories this year, a new record for the contest.
While they were not chosen for the top three spots, these stories may still be announced as one of the Judge’s Choices or the Director’s Choice. Stay tuned!
Ink releases on August 10th.
- Laura Antoniou – A Most Rewarding Quest
- Tam Ames – The Autograph
- RE Andeen – The Skinchanger’s Art
- Ryley Banks – Right Place, Right Time
- Joe Baumann – Babbler
- Die Booth – Faith and the Thorncutters
- Ryan Breadinc – The Ink Reader
- A.M. Burns – The Final Line
- Elsa M. Carruthers – I Am Happy to Be Here Today
- Foster Bridget Cassidy – Unfamiliar Waters
- Bryan Crystal-Thursdton – Fluid
- James Dunham – Lydia’s Back
- Allen Dyen-Shapiro – To Share the Sky
- K. Eason – On the Conjoined Practice of Demonology and Scribal Longhand
- Sacchi Green – S/He Who Remembers
- Brenna Harvey – EduTron 6000 + Principal Vertner 4Ever
- W. Dale Jordan – The Summoning
- Kim Katil – Heart Bound in Ink
- M. X. Kelly – To Have and to Hold and to Hold and to Hold
- Barbara Krasnoff – The Inker, The Cat and The Parrot
- Anja Hendrikse Liu – Stranger Stories
- Nathan Alling Long – It’s What’s Inside That Counts
- M.K. Mads – The Dragon’s Price
- C.L. McCartney – Risotto Nero
- Fiona Moore – The Muse’s Gift
- Mary Newman – Graven Images
- Robin Reed – Printed Love
- Jen Rivers – The Aerium
- Rodello Santos – Told
- E. F. Schraeder – Spider Legs
- Alex Silver – Summoned
- Anna Stacy – Livename
- Susan Stradiotto – Moon Child
- Naomi Tajedler – Oddities
- Lauren Triola – The Unmarked
- Geneva Vand – The Colors of Fate
- Rina Youngblood – Proof in the Telling
- Aubrey Zahn – Jumper