Sour grapes

[devi]

The shortlist of winners for a story competition I entered has just come out. It is probably Bad and Wrong of me to be looking over the list of titles and thinking an awful lot of them are trite-sounding rubbish. I mean, "Somebody's Mother"! "The Summer's Day"! "Saturday's Kiss"! What is it with the 's thing? And "The Great Plains of Africa", ew. I really hope that's meant ironically. Though "The Happiest Mosquitoes in Breson" does sound quite interesting.

Fear Me, competition judges! Pass me over and I'll... I'll... mock your shortlist on my blog! Oh noes!

(Mine was called "We Wait In Joyful Hope". I like nicking chunks of prayers.)

Oh well. Insert standard grey-weather/stuckness/eye-strain grump here, then it'll be out of the way.

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[millionreasons.livejournal.com]

'THE WORLD OF TIDES' - ick! Though it was written by Bill Murray, so maybe they had to take celebrity into account.

What about entering this one instead?

http://www.ashamaward.com/news.asp

I wonder if someone's set up an LJ community for lists of literary competitions?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Is that A S Byatt on the list of judges? *starstruck*

There's writerly, but it's mostly American...