We have had a tremendous response to our high school short Story writing contest with 93 stories as of the deadline date of November 25th.

We sorted the stories according to the rules stated in our flier,deadline, double spacing, word count(2500), Times New Roman font and 12 point font size.

Now the judges are now reading the resulting stories for originality, grammar, and spelling (The student’s name, school, and town are unknown to the judges, for fairness.)

We will have more information for you after January 6th.

Thank you to all of the parents, teachers, for encouraging their students to participate.

A real big thank you to the students who shared their stories with Iowa Author Fest.

Larry Stumbo