To keep myself from losing track of:
all the contests I've entered,
all the contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be voluntold into judging),
all the books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge,
all the deadlines,
a...
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I don't have a prayer of even making the longlist of the Watty's, nor do I have much interest in taking part - I'm nervous about Ancilla being used to train artificial intelligence to write monetized "verticals." Just one of those things. Not that Ancilla is popular enough to be a good victim of such intellectual property theft, but it's the principle of the thing, and I feel rotten for any author whose work is used to train AI, especially when no royalties or other forms of compensation are likely to ever go to that human author.
I might consider entering the Amby awards, though.
I'll have to read the terms carefully.
UPDATE (8/2/2024) - I entered Ancilla in the Contemporary Literature category (subcategory: Novel) and Excavations into the Poetry category (subcategory: Poetry Collection).
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UPDATE (10/17/2024) -
Well. That was not what I expected. At all.
The good news is that I made the shortlist. I actually made the shortlist.
The bad news is that what made the shortlist is Excavations, my anthology of utterly mediocre poetry. Nobody likes my fiction.
Excuse me, I need to go have a good cry now...
UPDATE (1/17/2025) -
Welp.
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