DeVoe’s winning 500 word story "See You Later" appears just after Christopher Fowler’s provocative essay on the state of Horror film today. Obtain the issue in print by clicking here http://ttapress.com/blackstatic/currentissue/. Or wait for the twenty winning stories on audio book via actionaudio.co.uk.

In case you can’t wait for the upcoming print edition of 2010-2011 New Millenium Writings, here is the included short-short by M. M. De Voe: http://tiny.cc/firstprize.  Use the "comments" function or send an email with your reactions to this mad little tale of office woe. 

Across the pond, two very amazing horror writers/editors launched a writing contest called "The Campaign for Real Fear." The Guardian even wrote about it! The top 20 stories from an international list of entries has been published and here it is: http://tinyurl.com/top20winners — see if you can find any familiar names on it.
The stories will […]

Just got this press release, passing on the great news:
Carol J. Arnold of San Francisco and M.M. De Voe of New York have tied for first prize in the New Millennium Writings Short-short Fiction Award Competition (Summer 2009). De Voe won for "Empty," about a young woman trapped alone in an office filled with malfunctioning digital devices, facing an impossible deadline […]

Quick! Click here www.literal-latte.com and you can read two of M. M. De Voe’s six prize-winning short-short stories, online now in the 15th anniversary issue of Literal Latte.  De Voe premiered "Virgin Flight 244, Chicago to Heathrow" at the KGB reading series on November 8th.  Those who attended were fortunate to also hear "Breakthrough." On the […]

M. M. De Voe will be appearing at the legendary KGB bar www.kgbbar.com in NYC at 7pm Sunday November 8th to read a prize winning story from the latest issue of Literal Latte. All are invited. No cover. Cheap beer. This event is one week to the day before Victor LaValle reads from his amazing […]

October is a good month. M. M. De Voe has just won FIRST PRIZE in Literal Latte’s Short-Short Fiction contest. Two of her shorts will be published online in the next issue of Literal Latte and will be eligible for publication in their annual print anthology. Watch this space for links when the stories are up!

M. M. De Voe’s latest story, LEAVE ME, will be included in the new 2009 WORDSTOCK TEN anthology, as it has just made the top ten finalist list for the Wordstock short fiction prize. (winner TBA) Watch this space for more news and information on how to buy the forthcoming anthology.

July 13, 2009. New York Department of Small Business Services announces New York City Neighborhood Achievement Awards. M. M. De Voe is nominated for a Partnership Award for her establishment of the Pen Parentis Reading Series in Lower Manhattan(www.penparentis.org). NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg attends awards ceremony, meets author M. M. De Voe in Gracie Mansion.

Letter received in the mail: thin envelope, a single sheet of bond paper. Return address: Lower Manhattan Cultural Comission.
Heart flutters a bit…
Inside: On behalf of the LMCC and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, it is our pleasure to notify you that your project, The Pen Parentis After Work Reading Series has been awarded a 2009 […]