Micro Madness- Another Free Entry Competition!

Hello Scribblers

This one is from New Zealand based National Flash.
Submissions are open until 15th May.
Micro Madness is a free international competition for works up to 100 words.
There's no entry fee- just send your submissions to flashfrontier@gmail.com
Up to three entries per person.

New for 2020- there are now two seperate categories- to reflect our current situation.
Send in 'no-theme' micros- any topic, any style.
Or, Send in 'lockdown' micros- inspired by these extraordinary times.
Follow the link below for more details.
https://nationalflash.org/micro-madness/

While visiting the website, you may also want to check out another competition: National Flash is also running a Flash Fiction competition- up to 300 words in honour of Flash Fiction Day 2020- on the 22nd June- which is their shortest day of the year!!

Fractured Flash and Micro Fiction- Free Submission

Hello Scribblers

Another chance to send your work in for publication.
This time with Fractured.

Fractured Lit publishes micro and flash fiction from writers of any background or experience. Both Micro and Flash categories are open year round and they do not charge any submission fees. Fractured accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you inform them immediately and withdraw your work if your story is accepted elsewhere. They pay authors $50 for original micro fiction and $75 for original flash fiction.

Micro fiction for Fractured Lit is 400 words or less.

Flash fiction is 401-1,000 words. 

They are searching for Flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow and the joy of connecting to the diverse population around us. 

Follow the link below for details of how to submit your work.

https://fracturedlit.submittable.com/

Writing assignments:

Our homework assignment is to write between 500 and 750 words on any subject you wish. Just send it in to scribblers.1@btinternet.com

Our 100 word WhatsApp theme is 'Thunder' and your work can be posted direct onto the site. If you are not a member yet and would like to join, then let Justin, Georgina or me know.

Dave

A change to the story of the week.

Over the past two weeks we have seen stories from Chris down in Cairns, and Rani from the London area.

Their stories have been replaced, but from today you will see 'This Week's Stories.'

Today we include three stories, just click on the link at the top of the page and you can read them and find out which of our authors are highlighted this week.

There  are more stories to come, mostly based on Trapped, but not all. 

Read and enjoy!

One Paragraph Only. (75 words- no more!)

Hello Scribblers

Here's a new challenge. A very succinct flash fiction- just 75 words required.

Check out Paragraph Planet's website for more info on how to get involved.

http://www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

You can also read their extensive archive of submissions to get you in the mind-set for a tiny piece of fiction.

Paragraph Planet is a creative writing website which has been publishing one 75-word paragraph every day since November 2008. Famous authors, aspiring writers and occasional dabblers have all got involved, submitting a mixture of twist-in-the-tale flash fiction, evocative short, short fiction, openings of published novels or brief moments captured.

The Lunate 500- The Wrong Way...

Hello Scribblers

Another competition opportunity here- this time coming from Lunate- Literary Journal.
This Journal specialises in poetry, flash fiction and short stories.
They have lots of pieces up on their website, so if you aren't in the mood for writing or entering competitions, why not have a read and get some inspiration from others' work.

Lunate's current competition has the prompt 'The Wrong Way'

The competition will run from 12th April and close on Saturday 14th June at midday UK time.

A shortlist of fifteen stories will be announced shortly after the closing date, and then they will count down to the winner with daily publication of each of those stories. These dates for this will be announced closer to the time.

You are free to interpret the prompt as you wish but Lunate encourage you to approach your story from left-field, play with convention, get crafty with setting, whatever. Be bold. However, they asked the competition judge Rosie Garland exactly what she would be looking for from the entries, so take careful note..!

“I’m fascinated by how humans have a knack for messing things up. It’s something we seem very good at (and yes, I include myself.) How the same mistakes get made, over and over. I’m just as – if not more - interested in how it’s possible to find ways out..."

Follow the link below to look at the prize fund, cost of entry and further guidelines.

https://lunate.co.uk/competitions

Good luck and Keep Scribbling!

Updating...

Without sounding silly in the current circumstances, I hope you have all managed to enjoy Easter so far. Hasn’t it been strange? Our lives restricted worse, some old ‘uns tell me, than the war. Leastways there are no bombing raids.

Something I meant to do was tidy up my Spam boxes on my email accounts and there, surprisingly, was an email from our dear friend Ray Foster. His wife is not too well as we know, but now this lockdown situation hasn’t made things any better. Having said that Ray tells me he has caught up on reading the ‘Famous Five' and 'Biggles' novels which he finds so refreshing in this day and age. He also has a collection of '50's and 60's novels that the PC crew have not tampered with! Happy reading Ray!

It was almost a shock having a thunderstorm, albeit a short one, yesterday afternoon. It got me thinking about a couple of times when I’ve been affected and so I thought it would be nice for our WhatsApp members to come up with a hundred words on “THUNDER.” That’s happening right now and there are a couple of stories posted already.

I have found the WhatsApp link has helped revive some of my flagging writing. If you’re not a member of the group and have WhatsApp then Justin will do the necessary to join you up.

As far as our usual homework is concerned, it would be great if we can all create your usual gems and post them in to me at scribblers.1@btinternet.com Although we can’t read them out, I am currently posting one story a week on the weblog until such time (same old excuse coming up!) we can find a password protected site that we can all use without the general public looking in.

Our ‘Trapped’ homework finishes on Wednesday when a new one homework begins. This time we, that is the boss, Georgina, and I think it would be good to give you all the freedom to write between 500 and 750 words on any subject or theme you wish. Deadline for these stories 28 April.

Talking of Georgina, she has been posting some interesting links for tips and competitions. Here are two of my own which might prove useful to you. They are:  

bang2write.com

and

joanna@thecreativepenn.com

The time has come for me to leave you in peace… don’t forget to keep checking the weblog for further news and tips that might pop up. 

Keep smiling if you can, or tearing your hair out if you must, but, most of all,

Stay safe.

Dave.