Ms. Magazine is having a best fiction contest. The contest guidelines are minimal and the prize is $1,000 US and publication in the Spring 2005 issue of the magazine. There is a $15 US reading fee but that’s not unusual. Amy Bloom will choose the winners. You can get the information from Ms. Magazine.

Incase anyone reading this doesn’t know who Amy Bloom is, here is her Web site. I read Come to Me, a collection of short stories, several years ago and they still linger in my mind. I think any well written story about family interaction and the complexities born within them leaves an impact on my psyche. Probably because of all the years I spent unweaving my family tapestry in order to find myself, only to discover that the whole tapestry was much more beautiful than the individual threads.