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For this year’s pop-themed Fiction Contest, we decided to make things even more interesting with a pop culture trivia contest. Senior Art Director Jason Hatcher carefully selected eight images for last week’s cover that tie into the theme, two of which have double meanings.

We promised the first to name the eight main hidden messages a CL gift pack, and the first to figure out all 10 a little something extra.

We had a lot of good and sometimes, uh, creative, guesses. Here’s the list of all 10 correct answers:

1. POP Tarts
2. Keith Moon applying Clearasil to a zit – POP a zit
3. POPcorn
4. Clowns POP out of Jack-in-the-boxes; DOUBLE MEANING: Jack-in-the-boxes play to the tune of POP goes the weasel
5. RC Cola is a type of soda or POP to you Midwesterners
6. Iggy POP
7. Black Cat firecrackers go POP
8. Michael Jackson is the King of POP; DOUBLE MEANING: His monkey’s name is Bubbles and bubbles go POP

Congrats to our winners!

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Tell all your friends! It’s time for the 8th annual CL Fiction Contest Party!

Joins us TONIGHT from 7-9 p.m. at Eyedrum (290 MLK Jr. Drive, Suite 8, 404-522-0655, www.eyedrum.org).

We received more than 200 entries and had to whittle them down to our three faves. It wasn’t easy, believe us. We had amazing help from our three local judges: award-winning children’s author Carmen Deedy; author, playwright and professor Phillip DePoy; and bookworm, aspiring author and Wordsmiths Books marketing guru Russ Marshalek.

The party, which is FREE!! and open to the public, is a great chance to mingle with writers in the community, listen to author readings from the three winning stories, dance to some smooth party jams by local band Night Moves Gold and indulge in refreshments from Highland Bakery.

Aside from the readings, live music and food, Wordsmiths Books will be on hand to sell books, CL will open up its press closet for a book swap and party co-sponsors Oxford Comics and Eyedeology, who’ll be collecting old eyeglasses, will have tables at the event.

Come help Creative Loafing support Atlanta’s burgeoning literary scene. We think you’ll like what you hear.

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Tell all your friends! It’s time for the 8th annual CL Fiction Contest Party!

Joins us Thurs., Jan. 8 from 7-9 p.m. at Eyedrum (290 MLK Jr. Drive, Suite 8, 404-522-0655, www.eyedrum.org).

We received more than 200 entries and had to whittle them down to our three faves. It wasn’t easy, believe us. We had amazing help from our three local judges: award-winning children’s author Carmen Deedy; author, playwright and professor Phillip DePoy; and bookworm, aspiring author and Wordsmiths Books marketing guru Russ Marshalek.

The party, which is FREE!! and open to the public, is a great chance to mingle with writers in the community, listen to author readings from the three winning stories, dance to some smooth party jams by local band Night Moves Gold and indulge in refreshments from Highland Bakery.

Aside from the readings, live music and food, Wordsmiths Books will be on hand to sell books, CL will open up its press closet for a book swap and party co-sponsors Oxford Comics and Eyedeology, who’ll be collecting old eyeglasses, will have tables at the event.

Come help Creative Loafing support Atlanta’s burgeoning literary scene. We think you’ll like what you hear.

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