The MAG Contest

And, the winners are…

Editor — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:27:37 +0000

The results for the 1st The MAG short story contest have now been compiled and the following stories have been selected as the top twenty stories:

Sr. No.	Name of Story	Author
1.	Nude	Purnima Rao
2.	A Song of Vengeance	Kalpana Abhijith
3.	The Snapper	Jeena R Papaadi
4.	The Perfect Girlfriend	Sidhartha Bharali
5.	Of Dreams, and that thing called Fate	Himangshu Dutta
6.	Forever Cinderella	Jeena R Papaadi
7.	Epicentre	Jeena R Papaadi
8.	Fracture	Anindita Deo
9.	My Fault	Subhasis Ghosal
10.	The Lost Earrings	Kalpana Abhijith
11.	The Suicide Note	Vivek Singh
12.	Karma Yogi	Neeshant Srivastava
13.	The Back Pocket	Mrinal Saurav
14.	Penance	Anubha Bhat
15.	The Unfortunate Episode	Anubha Bhat
16.	Smoking Kills	Manoj Madhvan
17.	A Friend in Need	Sudhamshu Hebbar
18.	The Travelling Suitcase	Manu Chaudhary
19.	Hunger	Priscilla Jolly
20.	Memories of a Dying Man	G S Vasu

Congratulations to all the winners. We will also be contacting each author individually.

If any author has published the story anywhere else in the time it took to declare the results, that story will be removed from the list and will be replaced by another story.

Entries Closed, Now for the results!

Editor — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:46:08 +0000

As you would surely have noticed by now, the last date for submitting your entry for the first “The Mag Annual Short Story Writing Contest” is now over. Any entries that were received after 15th July were not considered for the contest. If you missed the deadline this time, don’t worry, you can send in your entry for the second edition of the contest, dates for which will be announced soon.

The entries received this time have been reviewed by the administrators at The MAG, and 41 of them have been forwarded to the Jury. This year due to some technical and other constraints, we could not open the stories for public voting. We might be able to change that in the future editions of the contest.

The list of the 41 stories that will be published on the site, and once the results have been received from the jury the winning entries will also be published on the site, and the winners will be notified by email. The Questions section of the site is still open, and if you have any questions, you can post them there, and we will respond as soon as possible.

Till next time.

1st Annual The MAG Short Story Writing Contest

Editor — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:53:04 +0000

Today everyone wants things that are fast. If it is food, it has to be “fast-food” . If it is cricket, it has to be “Twenty20″. If it is writing it has to be “Twitter” – where you say what you got to say in 140 characters or less. The desire for faster, and shorter – read quicker – version of things is not misplaced. We have only 24 hours in a day – the same as people had when there was no TV, no Internet, no Telephone, etc. With all these amenities, we have become strained for time, and want to make the best possible use of the time available with us.

The worst hit in this regard, some experts say, is reading. No one these days seems to have enough time curl up with their favourite book, and read deep into the night. The experts, however, also agree that reading as a habit won’t die easily, or maybe it won’t die at all.

The MAG, in its endeavour to promote quality writing and thus encourage the good, old, reading habit, is holding a Short Story Writing Competition from 10th January 2010 to 31st May 30th June 15th July 2010. The winners will get a chance to get published and win some attractive prizes too.

So, what are you waiting for? Get, Set, Write!