---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 5
published: 1918-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Story Contest,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 5 (March 1918): 452."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2105unse
start_page: 452
end_page: 452
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse
  publication_year: 1918
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Story Contest

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The "Era" Story Contest

In the January 5 contest, the committee selected a story

entitled, The Retreat of the Dismal Night, by Elizabeth Can-

non Porter, of Salt Lake City, for the first place; and The Real

Thing, a story by Ethel K. Horsley, of Brigham City, for second

place.

There were eighteen stories submitted to the Era for the

February 5 contest. The first place was given to Mrs. Venice

F. Anderson of Dupont, Washington; her story is entitled Cor-

poral Ron of the 362nd. The second place was given to the

story entitled Forfeits, by Nephi Anderson, of Salt Lake City:

and to a story by Mrs. Elsie C. Carroll, of Provo, entitled The

Miracle. The latter two were of such equal merit, in the

opinion of the judges, that the second place was given to both.

Readers of the Era will find special pleasure in these five

stories which will appear in due time in the magazine.

Writers will please take notice that the next contest will

be held on the 5th of March. Stories for this contest should

reach the editor by that date.