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james mccarty yeager
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, US
Birthday
April 06
Title
Slangwhanger-in-Chief
Company
Manuscript Manufactory UnLtd
Bio
Socialist-Catholic writer educated in Houston, Toronto and Austin, living the last 37 years in Washington DC. Now working on a comic novel of life in a small sectarian university whose prepublication title is "Empty Away."

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AUGUST 1, 2009 3:10AM

Inching Toward Publication

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I entered an unpublished short story, "Holiday Justice," in the University of Toronto Magazine's Alumni Short Story contest. To be eligible you must not have had a book of your short stories published and you must have attended U of T. 

Today they called to tell me it had been accepted for the "longlist" from which a "shortlist" will be chosen to determine the winner in September. So I made the first cut.

The first prize winner receives money and publication, and I think the next four runner ups are also published. If I get published there, that will mark two short stories published in Canada and two in the United States. So I would make up in internationalism what I seem to lack in fecundity.

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thanks for the interest! indeed i shall tell all as it develops. no point starting a subject unless you intend to report as you go along. toronto has 20-30k students every year; i wonder how many alumni submitted? i hope when they publish the winner they put up the statistics - number of submissions, number of graduate years represented, which college submitted the most, etc.