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Back to Journal  « Spoken Alexandria podcast returns (finally) | WotF: Finally a Finalist! | Photo Meme Thing » WotF: Finally a Finalist! September 16, 2008 I'm currently one of eight finalist in the Writers of the Future contest, 2008Q3 (quarter ending June 30, 2008). I'll find out in the next month or so whether I've won. Got the call last night from Joni Labaqui, and she posted the results a few hours later. How do we feel about this?  ...except with less beard because I don't have a beard these days. This is the story I was working on and hoping to finish when I had my mild traumatic brain injury last December (err, welcome, new readers!). The story was probably 80% completed then, and with medicinal amounts of caffeine and working in short bursts, it took me another six months to finish. I first entered WotF in December 1998. This was my 20th entry over the past 9.5 years, and my first time ever getting past the first reader/coordinating judge (formerly Algis Budrys, currently K.D. Wentworth), who reads and sorts everything, and passes only the finalists on to other judges. My current tally is... 8 nonplacers 9 honorable mentions/quarterfinalists 2 semifinalists 1 finalist (or better!) And I believe I'm one "pro" sale away from being disqualified for the contest. Filed under Brain Injury, Journal, News, Writers of the Future  
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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