Chapter One Promotions
Like Eastanglian, I had the same experience, checked the website 11th May and found I'd won third prize. I did manage to get hold of Johanna at C1P, after leaving a message, then emailing them as well.She did phone me back. The original posts about C1P date back to 2005 so they haven't learnt much since then as it's really bad practice to put something in the public domain and not tell the individuals. I expressed surprise at the practice and was told I'd get the contract this week - that got me suspicious too frankly as like many others I had some difficulty understanding what the organisation is about. I've had a letter today, just to tell me I've come 3rd, no contract yet, which I was told was to ensure that the writing was by me and not published elsewhere, also I assume there's stuff around the anthology which according to today's letter will be in 2 years time. I haven't found any short story collection on their website after the 2005 competition by the way. I'm seriously wondering about asking for my story back. The letter does not mention the prize money and when I asked Johanna, she said it would be some months before it's awarded. It may be worthwhile a few of us in the same position getting together and approaching them as a group for some very straight talking. It may well be that they're not trying to pull a fast one and mess with us in which case they're doing themselves absolutely no favours.