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The ‘Will You Write With Me?’ contest ended on 28 February… and we know you guys have been waiting to hear the results for a long time – and we assure you we have a great reason for the delay.
The reason is all of you! Yes, you and you and you. You’ve sent in such great entries to the contest that we simply couldn’t choose!
So here’s what we’ve done. We have developed a shortlist of 20 entries – and these 20 entries will be thoroughly read again and again and again to pick the top 3.
And yes, we know you’re curious about who all have made the cut. So here you go! Here is the shortlist from the Karadi Tales ‘Will You Write With Me?’ contest in alphabetical order.
‘42: A life in numbers’ by Bernard L’Allier
‘A question of numbers’ by Ramesh Rabindranath
‘Actions speak louder’ by Vibha Batra
‘Count on the sportsmen’ by Sonali Arun Bhatia
‘Encounter with a counter’ by Sonali Arun Bhatia
‘Going wild with numbers’ by Sonali Arun Bhatia
‘Number game’ by Archana Rao-D’Cruz
‘Numbers don’t count for everything’ by Anna Mathews
‘Numbers from beyond’ by M. Aravind
‘Numero Uno’ by Richa Vatsa
‘Raghunath to the exploding guavas’ rescue’ by Mala Ashok
‘Speaking of numbers’ by Shweta Ganesh Kumar
‘The code’ by Mira Desai
‘The man who spoke in numbers’ by Lakshmi Ananth
‘The number cruncher’ by Susan Philip
‘The number world’ by Janaki Chandrasekaran
‘The Shanks of 999’ by Debarun Roy Gupta
‘The tale of the mysterious numbers’ by Manjushree Nanda
‘Total disruption’ by Nanda Ramesh
‘Train to UNO’ by Priya Kumar
Congratulations, you guys! Keep writing!
Oh and watch this space to know who the judges of the contest are!
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I am not selected………… Why?
the other entries than these top 20 should atleast get something for their willingness and participation ! Please see to that
I would like to know what was the ain criteria for the above selection.
Raj
Yes.. it will be nice to know what criteria was used to select the above entries from the many. Also, can you let us know how many total entries Karadi Tales received?
To the participants of 'Will You Write With Me?':
Thanks very much for your participation. It was your keen interest that made this contest such a great success.
We received many entries to the contest – so many that we needed more time to read through every single entry carefully before settling on this shortlist!
Our criteria can be found here: https://www.karaditales.com/contestparam.html.
Much as we'd love to offer every single participant something for their willingness and enthusiasm, it is sadly not feasible for us to do so.
We'd also love to provide individual feedback on every entry and explain to our participants the reasons behind this selection, but the sheer numbers would not allow for such personalised responses.
Our editorial team and our judges were overwhelmed by the talented pool of writers who participated in the contest. This was an extremely difficult choice to make.
So keep writing, everyone. Let your creativity flow! Karadi Tales is behind you one hundred per cent! And, believe us, we're very keen to create more opportunities for all your creative skills to be recognised. Stay in touch!
At least publish the names of the participants for their satisfaction
Sai Prashanth
It was a great experience to have participated in this contest.I Would love to read the short listed stories as well.
I guess I would be able to understand why my short story was not short listed if given that opportunity and that will really help me improve my writing.
We wish we could credit all the participants and provide individual feedback, but there were way too many entries to the contest and we (the editorial team and the judges) would not be able to do justice to the process. Good luck with your writing!
I'm totally dissatisfied with the selections. Just one look at the titles of the selected entries tells you the quality of selections. I agree some of them sound good, but the others? Gimme a break!
We value the opinions of our editorial team and our judges very highly and we can assure you that a lot of thought went into the making of this shortlist. Perhaps this is a good time to say 'Don't judge a story by its title!' 🙂
Publish the not selected stories so that we can read here and enjoy 🙂
We received way too many entries to the contest to be able to do so. Wish we could!
Noone seems to have mentioned yet that this was a great competition.
Thanks for running it! I'll be interested to see the results.
Thanks a lot. 🙂
Yes, I support publishing the names of the participants. That's really not too much to ask.
hello to the karadi tales team ,,
first of all , the incomplete part available was very challenging, i changed the story line thrice before i was satisfied it was serving the purpose of the target audience !!
secondly , never judge a book by its cover,, so never judge a story by a title friends,, i am
eagerly waiting to read the winning entry .please keep us updated about future contests ..best wishes 😉
all in all ,a fun contest !
Thanks, SA. Do subscribe to our blog and our newsletter and we'll keep you posted on our upcoming contests. 🙂
Karthik's comment about the contest being "fun," sums up what it's all about. I believe that from the day you are born till your last living moment Life should be fun. Every day without fail when my son left for school, I said "have fun."
Now, when he leaves for work I say "have fun." I can see and hear the roar of disapproval, but believe me friends it is up to us, to make ANYTHING FUN!!!!
Writer Mala,
Thanks! We believe in fun too! 🙂 Do keep visiting!
CAN I READ THE ABOVE STORIES
The 3 winning stories (chosen from the 20 stories shortlisted above) will be published and you can certainly read those 3.
an individualized feedback, would be like a pat on the back for all those who participated, even if not shortlisted…can we all expect that?
wen can we read the shorlisted/winning entries???
When will the final results be announced? Who will be notified? Only the three winners, the twenty Shortlisted participants, or every participant??
Our judges, I'm sure you guys understand, are very busy, and, although they'd love to, cannot make the time to provide individual feedback.
The winning entries will be announced in a week. You can read the results right here on this blog. The winners alone will be notified by email.
Thanks, everyone, for your interest!
I had tons of fun and I loved writing the story, it was a bit challenging as this was my first 'complete the uncompleted story'
Mohana 10 and a half years old.
Yay. Glad you had fun. 🙂 Keep writing!
Want to second one of the commenter above..
It was a nice contest and kudos to Karadi Tales for doing it. Challenging aspiring writers with the amazing half story was a good approach. It helps get the creative juices flowing that much more!
2 requests:
1. How many total entries did you receive?
2. In addition to publishing the winning entries can you also publish a complete story by the author of the 1st half? I am sure he/she had an idea on what number man was all about! 🙂
thanks and keep doing these contests!
A complete story by the author of the first half is a great idea. That'll give us an idea of the author's vision for this story:)
I would like know how can I improve
Jay Patel
Congrats to all those shortlisted and good luck for the final cut. I do think it's a little unfair that one person with multiple entries gets 3 of the slots though!
We'd be very happy to publish the author's own ending to the story (yes, the author has written one!). We'll keep you posted on this.
The shortlist was made without the names of the author's on the entries. We too were surprised to see three entries by the same writer on the shortlist, and let us assure you that this was done in the fairest way possible.
Again, we must say that all the entries were amazing and our judges had a tough time making the shortlist.
Given how time-consuming the process will be, they unfortunately will not be able to provide individual feedback.
Thanks, everyone, for all the interest. We're overwhelmed! 🙂
Had a gruelling time cooking up an ending for the story. But am extremely amused to know that there was an author who had already finished his/her undisclosed peice. I am curious to know the original ending and as to how far away I am from it. Also please do publish the 3 winning entries atleast.
Thanks a ton for providing an opportunity to let my humble creativity to flow in whatever time i could squueze out of my busy schedule as a homemaker.
Pratibha Gopal.Belgaum( now shifted to Bangalore)
We'll certainly publish the 3 winning entries and the author's own original entry for everyone to read. 🙂
How many entries were received? Any reason to avoid answering this question? 🙂
those who are on the shortlist, but did not make the final list
or even those who were not in the shortlist
can such people publish their attempts in their personal blogs?
Manjushree,
The first half of the story belongs to Karadi Tales and the author. You're very welcome to publish your half of the story on your blog. But we ask you not to reproduce the first half on your blog. Rather, you could provide this link: https://www.karaditales.com/contest.aspx and ask your readers to download the first half of the story from there. Karadi Tales must be credited for this.
Karadi Tales reserves the complete and total rights to the first half of the story. It cannot be used for promotional / commercial purposes without permission from Karadi Tales.
were the winning stories and the authors published anywhere yet?
thanks
The 3 winning authors have received publishing contracts from Karadi Tales. The book will be published by Spring 2011 and we're very much looking forward to it! 🙂
oops. found your old answer to my query in the other post here itself on when it will be published. Spring is over though….hope it is happening soon, then 🙂 please do make the authors ending also available somewhere.