[Jean L. Kreiling]

Congratulations, Maryann! And kudos to Marty Steyer and the other finalists as well!

I'm so pleased to join you on the list of finalists (my fourth time there--always a bridesmaid--but a happy one), for my "Sorting."

We'll get a complete list via snail mail shortly, I think.

Who else????

P.S. Happy to add congratulations to Gail White and Cathy Chandler. Such fine company I keep!

[Gail White]

I'm also in the finals, with my sonnet "Cat Hoarder", a variant on my bake-off entry. I owe a special thanks to Maryann Corbett for telling me this one could be a contender.

Congratulations to all!

[Michael Cantor]

Congrats to all.

Maryann, I didn't enter this year, so can't really press Bill. Why don't you do it. Or Jean, since she's practically a full-time finalist. I'll e-mail you his address. (And if you want to suggest that he considers releasing the names of all the finalists and winners at one time and publicly - like every other contest does - I will happily support you.)

[Susan McLean]

Congratulations to Marty, Maryann, Jean, and Gail! I have had no e-mail from Bill Baer, so I assume that I am not among the finalists. I agree that it would be nice to have the whole list publicly released at once after the winners have been informed.

Susan

[Siham Karami]

Huge congrats, Maryann! And to Gail (highly decorated Nemerov vet) and Jean (quite a fantastic record, I'd say!) and Marty!

Siham

[Maryann Corbett]

Originally Posted by Michael Cantor

Congrats to all.

Maryann, I didn't enter this year, so can't really press Bill. Why don't you do it. Or Jean, since she's practically a full-time finalist. I'll e-mail you his address. (And if you want to suggest that he considers releasing the names of all the finalists and winners at one time and publicly - like every other contest does - I will happily support you.)

Will do, Michael. It occurs to me that Bill will need to get return e-mails verifying that all these sonnets remain unpublished and uncommitted before the list is really final, so I'll give it a little more time.

I see on Cathy Chandler's blog that she too is a finalist; congratulations, Cathy, Gail, and Jean!

[R. S. Gwynn]

It was a great bunch of sonnets. Anyone know Marty Steyer?

[Maryann Corbett]

Originally Posted by R. S. Gwynn

Anyone know Marty Steyer?

Sam, one thing I do see is that Marty's name appears on an earlier list of finalists, here, in post 3.

Editing back: Actually, Marty Steyer is a Sphere member, as shown here: http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/member.php?u=7663

Maybe we'll hear from him.

[Richard Meyer]

Congratulations, all.

Richard

[Gail White]

Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett

I see on Cathy Chandler's blog that she too is a finalist

It'll be a very warm January when Cathy isn't a finalist.
More congratulations!