Tag: flash fiction

Force Majeure Flash Contest Begins

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Enter the FORCE MAJEURE FLASH CONTEST here.

CONTEST GUIDELINES

Top prize for a single flash $300; two runners-up $100 each.

DEADLINE: 11:59 p.m. CST, 30th April 2017.

Two ways to enter:

  1. Upload 1 flash (you’ll receive an ebook of the prize issue) – $5
  2. Upload 1–3 flashes in a single file (receive a print copy of the prize issue) – $12

Multiple entries are fine. Simultaneous submissions are fine; if a flash is accepted elsewhere, please notify us via a note on the submission within Submittable. Winning flash must not be (scheduled to be) published in print, ebook, or internet before August 2017.

All entries considered for publication in Storm Cellar.

What is a flash?

  • Shorter than 1000 words
  • Not more than 5 pages
  • May contain fiction, nonfiction, non-letter marks (images), or some combination
  • May bend genre, form, brains

We encourage submissions by women, people of color, indigenous, disabled, lgbtq+, poor, and members of other under-represented groups. Authors who because of financial hardship cannot pay the entry fee should email the editors with a brief statement of their need so that we can arrange an entry.

Contest will be decided by the editors. Close friends, family, current & formers students, and employers of the editors may not enter. While not a member of the CLMP, we strive to achieve a similar level of transparency and virtue.

All proceeds will go to prizes and production costs. No fees may be refunded. “Extra” flashes within entries will not be read. We may disqualify entrants on the basis of harassing behavior. Entrants will be notified of their contest outcome by email, on or before June 30, 2017.

Handy link to examples of flash we’ve printed. Surprise us!

Martin Porter: Dictionary, or the Scattering of the Nations

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Today’s share comes at an opportune time, a time of opportunity, to consider what is a nation, the nation or nations, how they may unite or cleave irreparably, how they might speak a common tongue. Here’s Martin Porter‘s flash “Dictionary, or the Scattering of the Nations“:

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This flash originally appeared in SC 4.2, in print and ebook forms over here. Subscribe, why don’t you, for more very understandable words delivered to your eyetips. Those who can: ♥️ read on ♥️!

PS. We’re looking for authors and artists to contribute to the next issue, which will feature all creators who happen to be women or genderqueer. Submission manager link.

Max Delsohn: The Aim

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Take this too, readers, a rad slash mad flash from the forthcoming SC 5.2 by Max Oliver Delsohn, “The Aim“:

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Dig it. Dig more. & if by coincidence you know anybody who happens by contrast to identify as a gender other than male who wants in on this magazine, we’d love to see their work.

Daniel W. Thompson: Yes, I Know, How, When, Okay

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The trains are coming off the tracks and the roads are sinking into the bogs these days, and here’s a flash to carry among the trees, Daniel W. Thompson’s “Yes, I Know, How, When, Okay” from Storm Cellar 4.3:

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Jacob Aiello: two flashes

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We’re going to guess everyone’s a bit tired of spectacle, so here are two stories about people who ride the bus and answer the phone, Jacob Aiello‘s “People Call” and “The Strangest, Most Amazing Thing I’ve Seen All Day“:

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These flashes first appeared in SC 4.2 (physical, digital). Get a subscription here and melt our hearts, or peek under our galoshes with a whole issue of your very own (see the latest as download or paper). Read on!