To all of you who participated in our 2009 Short-Story Contest: Thank you for your hard work and for submitting your stories! The winners have been chosen and notified; we will announce the first-, second- and third-place authors on our Web site on Oct. 2. The first place winner's story will be published in our February 2010 issue, and the top three stories will be posted on our Web site at the same time. We hope you will enjoy reading them as much as our judges did!

The Writer editorial staff