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    7 th Interscholastic Short Story contest 2013
    (Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile), 2013) Troncoso, Ximena
    Preface On this year 2013, our lnterscholars Contest of Short Stories in Spanish celebrates its 1Oth birthday. lt has been ten years of commitment with the scholar community and the development of reading and writing among our youth. This is another reason of deep proud for our University on its 2S'h anniversary. 1 would like to tell you a story. A few months ago, and after checking severa! e-mails, 1 read Andrés Montero's mail, and 1 wantto mention him specially on these lines. On his letter, he said he wanted to tell his story and explain why having participated in this contest had changed his life. Andrés was a student as many others who liked writing, but he felt ashamed not to mention how difficult is being a writer in Chile. So he decided toaban don his dreams until he saw a poster of the Spanish Short Stories lnterscholars Contest. He participated and had the Second Place Prize, thanks to his talent, of course. The next year, he felt more motivated and secure of himself and participated again. This new adventure made him the winner of the First Place Prize. After that he began to participate in many other contests getting important recognitions to his work. This year, LOM Editions has decided to publish a selection of thirteen short stories written by him. The book is called "La inútil perfección y otros cuentos sepiosos" (Useless perfection and other oldish stories). Among these short stories, there are those which received a prize in UNAB and one that gives the title to the book"La inútil perfección"( Useless Perfection), winner story in 2007. The mail of Andrés just wanted to thank our lnstitution and to motivate, as he says:"l imagine that knowing a contest might have such beautiful consequences, is an impulse to yo u to keep on working in behalf of art and culture': He is right. The vision of the Humanities and Education Faculty leading by its Dean Vicente Cordero as well as the support of important institutions, have made possible that more than twenty thousand scholars wrote about their dreams, hopes and why not, their sorrows on a sheet of paper over these years. The Academic Department of this Faculty, Norma Drouilly, Stephanie Massman, Salvador Lanas, Kristof Cerda, María Soledad Carriel, Silvina Zapata, among others, have participated as jury having the very hard work of assessing the short stories. Besides their work, it is the effort of outstanding national writers, members of Sociedad de Escritores de Chile, who have helped us with altruism by selecting and assessing all the works we received. This has allowed us to count not only with juries but on qualified orators in each competition. 1 just want to thank each of them and of course the lnterscholars Direction of the University that carries this initiative to the scholar community yearly, motivating thousands of students all over the country. Without their work, the support and commitment of Communication teachers and the writing workshops in different schools, this initiative would not be as important as it is. On our 2S'h birthday, we confirm our commitment to our youth, to the writing art, to the promotion of reading and to all the positive consequences this contes~ brings. On this book you will find the short stories that got Honor Mentions and Special Prizes, as well as the three short stories that won the first place in Viña del Mar, Santiago and Concepción. 1 hope you enjoy this reading. 71h lnterscholastic Short Story Contest UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO - ------