What a great writing contest! Thank you so much to the writers and to those of you who voted.

THE WINNERS ARE:

FIRST PLACE 150 ACORNS: FREE BIRD by Blue23Rose (Vickie)

SECOND PLACE 100 ACORNS: DOWN HOME FOR THANKSGIVING by Dayjillymo (Jill)

THIRD PLACE 50 ACORNS: GHOULISH GREETINGS by floota (Julie)

We thought it was interesting that the winners included three different holidays as well as three totally different types of stories: a history lesson, down home humor, and a horror comedy. Great writing, ladies, and congratulations!

Your acorns are from the three of us equally, daylily, Char and me, though your acorn message will come from me. I'm sure you will soon use them wisely.

And on our story thread, Juli will have the name of the writer included with each story:

The thread "Daylily Tales - The STORIES - 2013" in Daylilies forum

Thank you again, you all made our first Daylily Tales contest an enjoyable event!

Thanks to all who voted for my story. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

This contest was a hoot - and I thought all the stories were wonderful. I can't wait to see names with all the stories.

Congratulations to all who participated. I thought every one did a fantastic job!

Congratulations Jill and Julie! All the stories were so good and fun to read. We absolutely must do it again

Thank you Sharon, Char, and daylily for a great contest and for the acorns! And thank you very much to everyone who voted! I must say I am excited, a little dazed and amazed, and my heart is racing.

Congratulations Vickie, Jill, and Julie. They were GREAT stories!!!!

In my haste to get off to work, I neglected to add a special thanks to those who voted for my story. Thank you very much for voting for me! I do appreciate it.

Thanks, Susie!

Yes, congratulations to ALL the winners and a special thank you to everyone who wrote a story to enter!

Thanks to everyone who voted also!

The three of us really enjoyed hosting the contest!

Great stories and congrats to the winners!!!!

Likewise, thanks to all who voted for all of the stories. They were all enjoyable and fun. As someone else mentioned, don't you wonder if hybridizers realize what some of their funny names can lead to? Guess my story showed my age too, as I was part of the "Rocky Horror" generation ! I'm hoping to post the story ( for Halloween) on my blog along with many of the corresponding daylily pictures.

Julie

Here's ROCKY HORROR:

Congrats to all winners and participants!! They were all very good stories.

Congratulations to the winners!

These were so fun to read!! I loved them all!

Congratulations to the winners

Congrats to all of the winners!!! All of the stories were great and it was hard to pick the top 3.

Congrats! Congrats to the winners. I thought ALL the stories were really good and had a hard time deciding on who to vote for.

I am especially happy to see FREE BIRD win as that was my personal number one choice. Great job but great job by all!

I meant it when I said it was hard to decide --- it WAS! I enjoyed all the stories.

Congratulations to the winners but IMHO everyone who wrote a story is a winner!

Fun contest Juli, Char & Sharon. Thanks so much for hosting it & putting it all together. I'm looking forward to the next one.

I thought it was lots of fun to write a story. My mind never comes up with any decent fiction so I based my story on a memory of a Christmas Past when I was about 16. The story is pure sillyness but my mom and I really did always have our Christmas dinner and presents on Christmas eve and really did go to wonderful Christmas party on Christmas day at dear friends. But it was right here, not in Connecticut and there was no Song and Dance Troop! But there was guitar playing and singing of Christmas Carols and old classics and there really was hot spiced wine.

Back "in the old days" when the AHS Robin allowed for posts that were "non- daylily" they used to have Halloween and Christmas story posts with daylily names, and I believe some clubs do them as games - so it was not an original idea or anything. However, it was fun, and I thought we could all use a pick me up after bloom season was over!

RIta, I never write fiction either - but I had fun writing up the example!

I hope this becomes an annual tradition. It was a LOT of fun and I bet people from the other forums here at ATP will join in as word spreads about the Daylily Stories contest. And everyone did such a great job.

I would like to know who wrote the non winning stories. Could that be posted as well??

It was added to the stories thread. It now shows who wrote each story.