If you thought the Ultimate Flash Fiction Package giveaway contest was easy to enter (which is still open to entries, by the way), you ain’t seen nothing yet. Because right now you can enter to win one of fifteen free copies of the Hint Fiction anthology at Goodreads. All you need to do is simply [...]
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer hits bookstores on November 1st here in the United States, and to celebrate, we’re having a contest! First, what is Hint Fiction? Inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s six-word story — “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” — Hint Fiction is a story of 25 words or fewer [...]
Alan Presley, the new Micro Award Administration, asked me to pass along the following information: The 4th Annual Micro Award will be open for submissions from Oct 1 - Dec 31, 2010. The Micro Award is presented annually for flash fiction of any genre, not exceeding 1000 words, published in 2010. Editors may submit two stories; writers may submit one. The winner [...]
Last year the term “hint fiction” was born in the essay “Hint Fiction: When Flash Fiction Becomes Just Too Flashy” published at Flash Fiction Chronicles. To commemorate the occasion, a retrospective essay, “Hint Fiction: One Year Later” appears at FFC today. A lot has happened in the past 365 days, and I want to thank [...]
Let’s be honest here — a Penultimate Paragraph Contest is pretty absurd. But it’s one of those things that’s just so absurd it’s awesome (or so I’d like to think). I received fourteen entries to the contest. They were all so great, and it was really impossible to choose (just how does one go about [...]
Next week is Hint Fiction’s birthday, so it makes some weird sense that my most recent publications are hint pieces (well, one is a hint piece, the other is slightly longer). “Terms and Conditions” (25 words) appears in issue 7 of The Los Angeles Review, alongside work by Benjamin Percy, Rick Bass, and a slew [...]
For you VSF writers, here are two contests worth checking out. The first is presented by Ben White at Nanoism: A TWITTER-FICTION CONTEST FOR HAITI Nanoism just passed its first birthday, and to celebrate we’re doing a big contest. This time, we’re doing it to raise money for Partners in Health, a fantastic NGO that [...]
The Best of Every Day Fiction Two is now available, which features my story “Incomplete” along with 99 other fine stories published last year at Every Day Fiction. I’m honored to have been included. My thanks to Jordan Lapp, Camille Gooderham Campbell, and Steven Smethurst for not just putting together this collection of stories, but [...]
