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Winter Writing Challenge Winner

We have a winner in the 2013 Spec Faith Winter Writing Challenge–Austin Gunderson
Rebecca LuElla Miller on Jan 21, 2013
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Winter Writing Challenge WinnerWe have a winner in the 2013 Spec Faith Winter Writing Challenge:

Austin Gunderson

Austin, contact me about your prize at rluellam at Yahoo dot com.

Congratulations are in order for all three of our finalists. And special thanks to each of you who entered, commented, and voted.

To make the challenge work, we needed you all!

Rebecca LuElla Miller
Best known for her aspirations as an epic fantasy author, Becky is the sole remaining founding member of Speculative Faith. Besides contributing weekly articles here, she blogs Monday through Friday at A Christian Worldview of Fiction. She works as a freelance writer and editor and posts writing tips as well as information about her editing services at Rewrite, Reword, Rework.
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  1. Lauren says:
    January 21, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    Congrats, Austin!

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  2. Austin Gunderson says:
    January 22, 2013 at 10:54 am

    Thanks, Rebecca!  This was a fun contest and a good e-laboratory for evaluative reading.  I feel grateful to have been a participant, let alone a finalist.

    Thanks to everyone who took the time and care to read and evaluate the proliferate entries.  And I especially want to thank all of you who went out on a limb, perhaps for the very first time, to bare 200 words’ worth of your writerly souls to the world.  It takes nerve to offer oneself up for public critique, and I’m just one of many who are grateful for your nerve.  There were a lot of excellent entries out there, many of which I thought warranted more attention than they, for whatever reason, received.  Fellow speculative-fiction-writers-who-are-Christian, I salute you!

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  3. D.M. Dutcher says:
    January 24, 2013 at 8:15 pm

    Grats to Austin and to everyone who participated. There were some cool little stories there that I hope people become encouraged to develop further. 

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  4. David Alford says:
    January 30, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    Congratulations, Austin! Well deserved. Now get back on that other project, before I hack your computer. 😛

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