BSSWC By the Numbers

The judges for the Brno Short Story Writing Contest have their entries and they are busily reading through them. The contest winners will be announced in early- to mid-June. In the meantime, here is some information that might be interesting.

BSSWC By the numbers:

• Feb. 1, 2017 — The Brno Short Story Writing Contest was announced and began accepting submissions.

• March 5, 2017 at 11:47 — The first entry was submitted.

• March 25, 2017 at 01:52 — The sixth entry was submitted, making the contest official.

(Per the Official Rules: “In the event that five entries or less are received, the contest will be canceled. Each entrant would receive 200kc. The remainder of the money would be returned to the Brno Expat Centre.”)

• 87 — the total number of entries for the BSSWC.

• 80 — the number of entries made in April.

• 32 — the number of entries made on the final day, April 30.

• 8 — the number of entries submitted during the final hour before the midnight deadline.

• 4 — the number of entries submitted during the final six minutes.

• 2 — the number of minutes before the deadline when the final entry was submitted.

• 2,499 — the longest entry, by word count (two).

• 225 — the shortest entry, by word count.

• 152,136 — the total number of words in all of the entries.

• 1,748 — the average number of words for all entries.

• 2,502 — the length of all of the titles and synopses, by word count.

• 6 — the number of entries that did not include a synopsis.

• 4 — the number of entries that required a retransmission because of a technical problem.

• 1 — the number of entries that did not include the author’s name and information in the email.

• 0 — the number of entries that had the same title.

• 56 — the number of women who submitted entries.

• 31 — the number of men who submitted entries.