A quick note on the judging, first.

Once our judges were through with their ratings, we saw that there were a large number of ties in the top ten, most notably, a four-way tie at first place.
We had made no reference to tied places in the contest conditions. But all our calls for submission focused on the top prize being available to one winner, and ( Read more... )

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I have pleasant news, so let me not indulge in pleasant talk :)

The judges have given us the much-awaited, celebrated winners of the Quick-Tales contest, and we are keen on having some pomp-and-show around the annoucements too! So, we'll be letting the news out on the 18th of November, 2008 at Oxford Book Store, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. We ( Read more... )

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We want to thank all of you for the great response to the contest. We got a total of 1052 valid entries!

As you read this, Annie, Manisha and I are busy reading and rating those entries, and we hope to be done and ready with a short list by around the 25th September. After that, our jury steps in to rate the short list and come up with a set of ( Read more... )

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The contest will cease to accept entries one minute after 23:59 (Indian Standard Time) on the 7th September, 2008 7th August 2008.

There is now also a countdown timer on the contest form page that will tell you exactly how much time you have left.

If you have read the pages at the Quick Tales site, and still have questions, please post them here and we'll try and answer them.

Hi all, and welcome to India Writing and, for those of you who have come in from my various emailings, welcome to LiveJournal.

I'm one of the editors at Caferati, a forum for writers, and we're very happy to be partnering LiveJournal to bring you the Quick Tales contest, which will run through to the 7th September ( Read more... )