The Contest

This year's Toronto Star Short Story Contest is up and running.  I was going to enter a story I wrote recently as part of a writing prompt gift exchange with my local writing group (more on that later) when I came across this piece interviewing last year's winner.  Fred Ni says that most short fiction is dark in tone.  Based purely on what I've read, I have to agree, and that certainly covers most of what I write as well.  As a challenge to myself, I think I'll try to write something upbeat and positive and enter it in this year's contest.