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Valentine's Contest - Feb. 7th - Feb. 28th

February is a month of love. Textnovel is looking for the most UNIQUE and CHEESIEST short story that will impress the Textnovel Editor Team - and make them cringe!

Win a $25 gift card for free books at Barnes & Noble! Redeemable at local stores and for online orders.

 

WINNERS HAVE BEEN SELECTED! CONGRATULATIONS!

Thank you everyone for participating in our Valentine's Contest 2014! We've received many great stories and the judging panel had a lot of fun reading through them. It was difficult to come to conclusions but here are the selections! Congrats again!

 

1) Fruit Salad: Pineapple P.O.V. by Nana Takara and Fruit Salad: Banana P.O.V. by Lorraine
Congratulations Nana & Lorraine for such an adorable and unique story! This was exactly what we were hoping to see! We commend you for thinking outside of the box and having a little fun with Valentine's :) Keep up the great work! You will be contacted with the $25 gift card prize!

RUNNER UPS:

- 「奇跡」 Miracle by Koinuu

- Signed, I love you by Kaytee

- Lover Boy by Amu

- Dance, Juliet! by Hirondelle

- Textnovel Team

Editor's Picks - March

Greetings Family!

We apologize for the belated Editor's Picks blog post! We have been going through the Valentine's Contestants! (Announcement coming!) We have gone through stories from February 15th to March 2nd and are excited to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Awards.  

Miracle After Storyis moving, emotional continuation of the Miracle Valentine's submission. The Salt Clock puts a different spin on the concept of time, in a powerful, thought-provoking and sentimental autobiography. ShockWave ETERNAL is a well-written, exciting fantasy cell phone novel. Give Me Love presents deep themes of love and issues in relationships in an eloquent one-shot short story piece. Impressions paints day to day ordinary experiences most wouldn't think about, in a profound, soothing, detailed way. The Crimson Queen is another work from the writer that showcases a fantasy novel of beautiful, sophisticated writing.

Miracle After Story by: Koinuu

THE SALT CLOCK, Minutes of Your Soul> by: Nightingale Nina

ShockWave ETERNAL by: Yukimura Yuuki

Give Me Love by: pouralittlesalt

Impressions by: nashipo

The Crimson Queen by: Count the Moons in Jupiter's Sky

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving staff feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between March 3rd and March 16th!

Editor's Choice - February 2014 Part 2

Greetings Writers & Readers!

Welcome to Part 2 of our February Editor's Picks. We have gone through stories from February 1st to February 15th and are excited to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Awards.  

Paintbrush is delicate cell phone novel with a lot of sweet innocent love but delivered artfully (pun intended) with careful minimalism.  My Favourite Sin is a thrilling story that puts you on the edge of your seat through mysterious, potentially twisted character interactions, and unfolding playful conflict. [unCOveREd] presents a deeply existential, dystopian sci-fi concept that is refreshing and unique to read. Planeterria reads like poetry, romantic and sentimental, a perfect read for Valentine's month. A Daughter of Light is a haunting but fun story with a natural narrative flow while maintaining lively engagement with the reader. Where Loyalties Lie is a well-written fantasy prose, realistic and full of details.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Paintbrush by: Divlovescandy

My Favourite Sin (Trilogy)> by: Nora Wright

[unCOveREd] by: Wren

Planeterria by: Chizumochi

A Daughter of Light (A Light onto the World) by: Price Girls

Where Loyalties Lie by: 

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving staff feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between February 15th and March 1st!

Editor's Choice - February 2014

Hello Textnovel family!

We apologize for the delay on Editor's Choice, but we are back in action. We have gone through stories from January 1st to January 31st and are happy to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Awards this time around.  We congratulate the writers for superb writing quality, voice and depth.

The Silent World's Disturbed Melody is an intricately and artistically crafted cell phone novel of tremendous poetic quality and sublime taking place through various worlds.  Winter Snow is a delicately written cell phone novel full of sentiment and careful emotion that unfolds a beautiful slice of life romance. Jane Fisher presents a love story in a unique and fun to read approach to storytelling, and the compelling engaging narrative voice pulls the reader through. white  is an interesting concept, that mystically blends memories, fantasy and facts of someone's life that creates much mystery, and a sort of disorientation that becomes an amazing experience. The United States of New Kurren is a masterfully written epic fantasy full of realistic politics, sophisticated conflict and war. Silence Says is a contemplative touching story of growing up and character bonds written with much calming soothing melancholic tones that gives solid weight to each word.

Hope you are having a great start of the new year, and snuggle up to enjoy some of these deep, heartfelt reads.

The Silent World's Disturbed Melody by: Opum

Winter Snow> by: CRYSTALFUR

Jane-Fisher: A Third Person Love Story by: AnnGrey

white by: evaro

The United States of New Kurren by: Count the Moons in Jupiter's Sky

Silence Says by: luckdragon

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving professional feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between February 1st and 15th!

Editor's Picks - January 1st! Welcome to 2014, Everyone!

Hello writers and readers!

We're happy to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Awards during the second half of December.  All of the stories we, ahem, fell in love with happen to be romances. Here is a preview of their refreshingly unconventional plots:

Espresso Love: A Novel is a dystopian philosophical romance that starts out with an awkward conversation in a coffee shop. Sound familiar to anyone? A hair salon and cruise ship provide a perfectly unconventional setting for love in It Started With A Hairdo. Kira through a Looking Glass is a cell phone novel that unfolds as a Kira begins her journey from dissatisfaction with her job and love life to self-discovery. Another unique love blossoms as a robot recovers its lost memories in Memories. Finally, Sing, Lovesick croons the melancholy melody of lost love in cell phone novel format. 

So curl up, grab something warm, and enjoy. Read on and write on, textnovelers.

Espresso Love: A Novel by: takatsu

It Started With A Hairdo by: Junlei

Kira through a Looking Glass by: HelpfulOne

Memories by: Sapphire1228

Sing, Lovesick by: fabrication

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving professional feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between January 1st and 15th!

Editor's Picks - December 15th!

Hello writers and readers!

We're happy to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Awards during the first half of December. We really enjoyed each of these stories. A Lament is fanfiction, and it tells Aozora's story; she is a demon girl whose parents are murdered by another demon, and she lives alone until she finds out the murderer's name. Blue Eyed Snitch is a romantic suspense full of Ereeza's sass as a college girl working at a bar. A totally unique story hits the ground running (literally) in Resistance: The Haunted, when a girl suffers through the aftermath of running to protect her friend, a kind but slightly monstrous boy, from angry townspeople. SuperNova: The Year Collection is a very realistic portrayal of a girl's struggles with a rare heart disease. And To Where the Rain Fell and The Blossoms Bloomed is a cell phone novel that surrounds the reader with a dream-like narrative that constantly surprises and intrigues.

Read on and write on, textnovelers.

A Lament by: NazeKaKankei

Blue Eyed Snitch by: Tokomo_Matsuki

Resistance: The Haunted by: Allure DL

SuperNova: The Year Collection by: ★ImagineHalcyon★

To Where The Rain Fell and The Blossoms Bloomed by: Yukimura Yuuki

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving professional feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between December 1st and 15th!

Editor's Picks - November 30th!

Hello writers and readers!

We're happy to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Awards during the last two weeks of November. We really enjoyed each of these stories. Chidori (A Thousand Birds) has proven to be popular with readers and immediately plunges the readers into the midst of a mysterious suicide story. The Darkest Surrender paints a rich and personal portrait of Althea, princess of Seelie. In contrast, a clever yet careful male narrator leads the reader into Fate Was Decided. The lonely swan and The Stars are unique love stories; in The lonely swan, Laila has lost her ability to see humans. That is, until Mark comes along. In The Stars, a woman who became a star through a tragic accident falls in love with a man on earth.

Here's the line-up: (This list is in alphabetical order)

Chidori (A Thousand Birds) by: Hirondelle

The Darkest Surrender by: Ophelia_Black

Fate Was Decided by: NamiMina

The lonely swan by: cherry blossom

The Stars by: さとみ

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving professional feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between December 1st and 15th!

Editor's Picks - November 15th!

Happy November to all you textnovelists out there!

We're happy to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Award during the first two weeks of November. These stories are particularly notable for their reflective and emotive writing, although they range from love stories to explorations of fears, phobias, and difficult family relationships. Read them, give them your support and comments, and keep up your own good work as writers and readers! We couldn't do this without each of you!

Here's the line-up: (This list is in alphabetical order)

Belgian Sweetheart by: Amaya Rain

Chionophobia by: Koinuu

Emotionless by: blackpants

Frozen Eternity by: T.K Hale

The Underwood by: S. M. Wagoner

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving professional feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between November 15th through the 30th!

Editor's Picks for October 31st!

Happy November to all you textnovelists out there!

We're happy to announce the winners who started their stories between October 15th and 31st! These hair-raising stories gave us goosebumps on Halloween, and we hope they scare you as much as they scared us. Keep up the good work!

Here's the line-up: (This list is in alphabetical order)

Blinking by: Kaytee

Critical Mass by: Joseph Albert King 

It that watches by: The Blue Pirate

Lucid by: Cassis

SIN 『罪』 by: nagareboshi 流れ星

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving professional feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between November 1st through the 15th!

Editor's Picks - October 15th

Happy mid-October everyone!

We're happy to announce the winners who started their stories between October 1st and 15th! This group covers many genres: science fiction, high fantasy, cell phone novels, and romance! We really loved reading many other stories but we have a limited number of awards to give out. In other words, next month could be your chance! Keep posting and commenting and reading--YOU are what keeps Textnovel a vibrant and growing community of writers and a forum for good writing!

Here's the line-up: (This list is in alphabetical order)

2347 by: Audixxx

Empire of the Clouds by: Kimberley Anh

Ever... by: fabrication

Lucky Heart by: Hirondelle

The Sunflower in Winter by: RanKokoro

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving professional feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between October 15th through the 31st!