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Writer Advice
www.writeradvice.com
presents
Writer Advice’s Fifth Annual
Flash Prose Contest
Send us your
best short prose
up to 750 words.
Fiction
Memoir
Creative non-fiction
Guidelines:
WriterAdvice, www.writeradvice.com, is searching for flash
fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction that grabs, surprises,
and mesmerizes readers in fewer than 750 words. If you have a
story or memoir with a strong theme, sharp images, a solid
structure, and an unexpected discovery, please submit it to the
WriterAdvice Flash Prose Contest.
DEADLINE: April 15, 2010
Judges and Prizes:
JUDGES: Former prizewinners, Gabrielle Hovendon, Lisa
Shafter, Katie Flynn, and Linda Weiford are this year’s
judges. Read their pieces and biographies by clicking on the
Archived Contest Entries button at www.writeradvice.com.
PRIZES: First Place earns $150; Second Place earns $75;
Third Place earns $50; Fourth Place earns $25; Honorable
Mentions will also be published.
Submission Process:
All entries should be typed, double-spaced and submitted in hard copy, not email. Entries must be postmarked by April 15, 2010. Send them to B. Lynn
Goodwin, WriterAdvice, P.O. Box 2665, Danville, CA 94526.
You may enter UP TO THREE stories. You are encouraged to double-space.
Enclose a $10 check for EACH entry made payable to B. Lynn Goodwin. This will
help defray the costs of the contest. If no prizes are awarded, checks will be
refunded.
Include a separate cover sheet with your name, address, phone number,
current e-mail address, and each story title. Please include only your title at the
top of each page of your story. Finalists will be asked to submit a brief
biography as well as an e-mail copy of the story. Names of all winners will be
announced in the summer issue of WriterAdvice, www.writeradvice.com.
SPECIAL PERK:
All entries accompanied by an SASE will be returned with
brief comments. E-mail questions, but not submissions to
editor B. Lynn Goodwin at [email protected].
Not sure how to start?
Start with a sensory image
Start with a photo
Start with a sound
Start with an odor
Start anywhere.
Who will tell your story if you do not?
Read previous winner’s & current judge’s pieces at
http://www.writeradvice.com/archives.html