$500 Flash Fiction Contest

[Nick]

The e-book publishing service Smashwords in association with Editor Unleashed is running a flash-fiction writing contest for stories of up to 1000 words.

There's a top prize of $500 for the winner, plus 39 runner-up prizes of $25. The top 40 stories will also be published in an e-book anthology, and their authors will get free links/publicity via the contest sponsors. The best news is that there is no entry fee. AFAIK, it's open to anyone in the world.

The contest is open from May 18 until June 14, 2009. To enter, you have to post your story on the Editor Unleashed forum.

For more info, see this post on the official Smashwords blog.

Good luck!

Nick 

[ChipTee]

This looks to be an interesting opportunity, but I wonder on where the term FLASH begins and ends. To me 1,000 words sounds generous as a FLASH. I saw a competition this morning looking for - I have to say it - a story as a Tweet just 140 characters which I guess is 20/30 words. That is brief.
Chip

[Nick]

I'd agree. 1000 words is the maximum length for flash fiction according to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction

Once you get to 1001 words, it becomes a short story!

Nick 

[twisted wheel]

definately going for this one nick. thanks for posting

you da man

[twisted wheel]

first round of ranking is over and i've come in at 65/280

fairly certain that there were a lot of people ranking out of spite but that's competition. it's up to the editor to decide the top 40 now. four days to go.

[Joe Mynhardt]

How do you know where your ranked?
My story is there but I don't see any rankings.

[twisted wheel]

enter the flash fiction thread and click on the wordd RATING and it will automatically put each story in descending order.

[Joe Mynhardt]

Thanks. Will check it out.