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Missouri Writers Guild Contests
The Hottest Flash Fiction Contest
$100 1st Prize
Deadline - September 15, 2008
Entry fee: $10
Word Limit 1,000 words.
What is Flash Fiction? It's fun. It's challenging. For writers, it is an exercise in rewriting and editing. It is a short short story.
All flash fiction includes the classic story elements: protagonist, conflict, obstacles or complications, and resolution. The brevity of this genre often forces some of the story elements to be implied or unwritten in the storyline.
This 6-word flash by Ernest Hemingway is an example of extreme flash fiction:
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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