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The Hottest Flash Fiction Contest

$100 1st Prize

Deadline -  September 15, 2008

Entry fee: $10
Word Limit 1,000 words.

  • First Place: $100.
  • Second Place Winner: $50.
  • Third Place $25.

    Honorable mentions are awarded at the discretion of the Judge.


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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