Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Flash Fiction Contest!


In the spirit of fabulous fiction fun, we hereby announce another Flash Fiction Contest at Fiction For Dessert. Please, enter one and all!!!

The rules:

1) Keep your word count to 400 or less.
2) Use the following words somewhere in your story: crimson, sincere and rickshaw
3) No foul language or explicit sexual content please
4) Have FUN!!!

Judging will be based on Originality, Plot, Characters, Descriptive Narrative and Pace, with 1 - 5 points possible in each category.

AND, if you sign up to receive Fiction For Dessert posts directly to your email, we'll give you THREE bonus points. (sign up is just to the right of this post)

Entry deadline is Friday, April 30th at midnight EST.

Send your entries to: kcantwell02@comcast.net. Paste the story into the body of the email, and type FLASH FICTION CONTEST into the subject line.

The winner will be announced and posted on Tuesday May 4th, and three honorable mentions later that week.

Did I mention to HAVE FUN!!!

Good luck, and Happy Writing.

3 comments:

Debbie Lamedman said...

Hi there! I found your blog through She Writes. Looks like a lot of fun! I can't wait to write something for your Flash Fiction contest. I am now following. Hope you will check out my blog and become a follower if you're interested. My blog is called Confessions of a Cluttered Mind at:
http://www.thingsdebbieneedstosay.blogspot.com

Thanks for providing the writing opportunity with your contest!

Laura Sherman said...

Awesome! I just posted a notice at my writing group on Linkedin (Write On, Networkers!). I'm sure you'll get a few takers there.

I love your contests. Very fun!

Karen Cantwell said...

Debbie -- I'm so glad you found the blog. I checked yours out as well. Very nice. I'm now a follower. :-) Hope you enter the contest!

Laura -- THANKS!!! I hope you enter again.