Welcome to the Momaya Newsletter!

(1) Announcing the Winners of the 2004 Momaya Short Story Competition
(2) 2004 Trivia
(3) Calling all Food Photos
(4) 2005 Competition -- Now Open

(1) Announcing the Winners of the 2004 Momaya Short Story Competition
Congratulations to our winners, who were chosen from a pool of 139 submissions. The judges were impressed by the overall quality of submissions, and encourage those who submitted to keep writing.

1st Place
Gethesiminal, by Alexandra Fox, UK

2nd Place
Jeda by Design, by Sally Haxthow, Canada

3rd Place
There Were Tigers, by Meredith Gee, UK

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):
Crossing the Highway, by Matthew Gaeta, USA
The Ring, by Mary Wilson, UK
This Will Never Be A Noodle Bar, by Deborah Thomas, UK
Consumed by Desire, by Germaine Stafford, Italy
Wired, by Carl McCarthy, USA
Plagued, by Antonia Hart, Ireland
Garlic Bread’s Fine, by Colin Upton, UK

The following stories have also been chose for publication in the 2004 Annual Review, based on their excellent treatment of the review's theme, food and eating:
These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin, by Deborah Thomas, UK
Juan Pablo’s Favorite Dish, by Anthony Psaila, UK
Edible Poetry, by Debra Broughton, Netherlands
Announcement, by Taylor Antrim, USA
Tomatoes, by Alex Fleetwood, UK

(2) 2004 Trivia
60% of the short stories were submitted by women
64% from writers based in the United Kingdom
20% from the United States
4% from Australia
4% from Ireland
3% from Canada
The remainder came from: Bahrain, Italy, Netherlands, New Zeland, Nigeria, Singapore, and Taiwan.

(3) Calling All Food Photos
We invite you to email any print-quality photos concerning the topic of food, which you think we might like to publish in the 2004 Momaya Annual Review. If we choose to publish your photograph, we will give you credit for the photograph and a complimentary copy of the 2004 Momaya Annual Review.

(4) 2005 Competition - Now Open
We thank all of the writers who submitted in our 2004 Competition. Our new 2005 Momaya Short Story Competition is now open and we will be accepting short stories until April 30, 2005.