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Willamette Week Explains Fiction Contest Judging

By AAN Staff
march 28, 2002  01:30 pm
Willamette Week Explains Fiction Contest Judging
After a mini-firestorm of protest over the judging in Willamette Week's inaugural writing contest, Arts and Culture Editor Caryn B. Brooks explains it all. A mea culpa for not having told the three judges that their picks were merely advisory, not binding. And she says putting "Floozy" third rather than first was because the author hadn't been particularly inventive in plot and characterization launched from the required first line, "At 4 a.m. she found herself under the Broadway Bridge."
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