Hey y’all I DMed YoungArts and they said next week (week 5).
next week as in starting tomorrow?
I also wish they did it like scholastic – is was simpler and less stressful
Maybe it will be tomorrow, calls came on 11/12 last year and 11/13 or 11/14 in 2018. I agree, it’s obnoxious that they’re being so vague (knowing we are all stressed).
finalist notifs potentially starting tomorrow eek! this was my first year entering (short story + fiction, i literally realized today that i could’ve entered cnf but i FORGOT. oh well) and i’m nervous but trying to stay hopeful 
best of luck to all of you! (and if you’re from the discord, hi :D)
Ahhh good luck! If anyone on this forum gets a call, can you let us know?
Definitely. Holy crap I’m so nervous.
If notifications start Week 5, then wouldn’t they start next Friday and not today?
Rn it’s week five, I also thought it would be November 20 but that is the last day of week five. So it should start today.
Ohhh got it, good luck everyone!
Someone also mentioned it earlier, but in the past the phone calls normally go out around the Tuesday of that week, so we might have a couple days to go… and merit and honorable mention won’t know for a couple weeks either.
ugh, this is so stressful
I DMed them on Instagram and they said they hadn’t started notifying finalists yet and they would next week… maybe they mean Monday?
i’m pretty sure they mean monday, i think things will start on the 15th
ugh so nervous
Ugh same I just want this to be over already. Does anyone know what order they will be contacting people in? Didn’t they go according to region last year?
No particular order from what i heard last year.
They do it pretty randomly but, they call a few from each discipline and cycle through until they are done. They’ll most like start calling on Tuesday as they do every year.
ugthghhgdbvhsbea i’m pulling my hair out rn
Who decided that sporadically calling winners over the course of an ill-defined week was the best way to do this??
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they probably have their reasoning but i wish they did it differently… i’m so stressed and even if i dont get a call this week, i’ll be stressed until the end of nov when they announce all winners
i really wish they announced merit and honorable mention the same timing as they announce finalists
There’s nothing to do other than waiting, we can’t change anything! Just hope for the best, and fine-tune your pieces and submit to other places in the meantime! I hope I got Merit in one category at least, though…