Written by Emily Harstone May 15th, 2014

The Six Word Short Story Contest

Congratulations to the winners of this week’s writing contest! They are listed below.

But first, a bit about our contest series.

Every week we have a contest on our Facebook Page. The contests change from week to week, but the winners are always published in the magazine. The contest winner and the runners up are chosen by a voting system, and the editors of Authors Publish will select several additional entries to be the Editor’s Choice winners.

Below are all the winners of this week’s contest, their challenge was to write a short story using only six words.

Next weeks contest starts at 9 AM on Saturday and runs till 9 AM on Sunday morning.

Winner:

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Runner Up:

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Editor’s Choice

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Heather Baker’s entry nearly tied with Tiffani Atkins (the runner up). You can visit Heather Baker’s Facebook page here: https://m.facebook.com/author.H.S.Baker

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