Stella_Omega
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There's also the theory that AH authors tend to be fairly willing to edit, and tend to talk about the craft of writing. It's a self-selecting crowd in some ways, and one of those ways is a tendency to improve-- and applaud each other's improving. The people who feel seriously that contests are worth winning tend to end up here because thesupport is here for the craft.Contests by year since I've been here. Anything before and I'm not familiar with all the names.
2003 5 contests 17 places awarded AH 2
2004 5 contests 15 places awarded AH 8
2005 6 contests 24 places awarder AH 14
2006 6 contests 18 places awarded AH 13
2007 6 contests 19 places awarded AH 11
2008 2 contest 3 places awarded AH 2
In all cases over 50% of the stories posted to the contests were from AH authors.
These are the facts. Make of them what you will
I wonder if that might have anything to do with it?