Deadline: 21 June 2011
R1000 and a professional critique are up for grabs. All you have to do is flash your shorts.
Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as three hundred words, while others consider stories as long as a thousand words to be flash fiction. (Wikipedia)
We challenge you to write a story in one post on our Facebook wall. Being constrained to 420 characters, including spaces, will spark your creativity and force you to focus on word choice, sentence structure and even punctuation. It can be done.
Liesl Jobson, SA’s Queen of Flash, will judge the competition and give the professional critique.
Genre: Any
Word count: 420 characters or less
Prize: R1000 cash sponsored by Books LIVE and a professional critique by Liesl Jobson (on a story of no more than 1000-words).
Flash Fiction Competition Rules
1. Entrants must Like Short Story Day South and Books LIVE on Facebook.
2. 420 characters (not words) including spaces or less. Stories must be confined to a single post and not continued in the comments boxes below.
3. Submissions are open now until 21 June 2011
4. All entries must be posted on Short Story Day South’s Facebook wall and sent to shortstorydaysouth@gmail.com
5. Submissions must be in English
6. You must retain the rights to your story to submit it.
7. By submitting a story the author attests that it is their own original work and grants non-exclusive print and digital rights to Short Story Day South and Books LIVE
Contact Information:
For inquiries: shortstorydaysouth@gmail.com
For submissions: shortstorydaysouth@gmail.com
Website: http://www.shortstorydaysouth.co.za