€20,000 for 100 words! Closes November 23 2014

[510bhan]

http://www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/e20000-flash-fiction-prize-no-thats-not-a-mistake/  

A first prize of €20,000 will be awarded to the winning story. The three remaining finalist stories in the remaining language categories will receive a €2000 runner up prize each.

http://www.museodelapalabra.com/en/short-tales-contest/4-edition/participation-form

[Dawn]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And yes it deserves all the exclamation marks.

Thanks for sharing - though feel slightly unworthy of entering.

[Gyppo]

The prize may not be a mistake but the date in the subject line deserves a little scrutiny.

[510bhan]

The prize may not be a mistake but the date in the subject line deserves a little scrutiny.

Whoops -- it was a number anagram - okay, I was over-excited -- off to change it now.

[Gyppo]

For a few delightful seconds I had this vision of some ancient scribe,  from 1024, surrounded by shelves full of carefully rolled scrolls, looking in complete bewilderment at a growing pile of thumbdrives -  delivered by camel post, or by runners bearing them aloft in a cleft stick - and being totally bewildered by the endless stream of subject lines appearing on a totally anomalous I-pad.

[510bhan]

 

Wouldn't it be great?

[bailish]

I looked all over the site but found no mention of entry fee. Is it free to enter?

[Nick]

I looked all over the site but found no mention of entry fee. Is it free to enter?

It would seem so. There is no mention of any fee on the application form.

[JewelAS53]

While the title of the website mentions the winnings in €,  within all the following text, only $ is used.

As there is not a 1 to 1 exchange rate between these currencies, the actual winnings could be a disappointment to someone hoping for €.

[510bhan]

As it is run by a European outfit I suspect it is Euros -- sometimes the symbol converts to $ when copying and pasting.

No entry fee as far as I can ascertain.

[Nick]

As it is run by a European outfit I suspect it is Euros -- sometimes the symbol converts to $ when copying and pasting.

I have my doubts about that, Sio. The only place a Euro symbol is used is in the headline of the Writing.ie article - otherwise they use the dollar sign throughout, and so does the Spanish site. It is an international contest, after all.

[510bhan]

But if you don't have a Euro sign on your keyboard -- some folks use $ rather than insert a symbol . . . or maybe they can't and it's a issue with character set conversion.

[Lin]

Well 20K Euros is not the same as 20K dollars.

They put dollars on the site.  



20,000 Dollars is equal to approx £12.400 GBP

and I think in Euros its approx E15,504

I could be wrong but it's as near as dammit as they say.  Still worth having though.

[Lin]

Dont forget there are key words you must use (I think) within the text.  I recently judged a competition and had to disqualify four entries because they didn't put in the key words as part of the rules of the contest.

 

[510bhan]

Just the theme to be followed, Lin -- no actual keywords have to be used.

The César Egido Serrano Foundation Announces the

IV Edition of the International Flash Fiction Competition
"Museum of Words"
As one of the objectives of the Foundation is the value of the word and dialogue as a tool for uniting peoples, the slogan of this contest edition will be, Mandela: Words and Concord. The rules of the competition are as follows:

The IV edition of international award for "Museum of Words" microfiction is open.
Writers from any country may enter their microfiction into the competition.
Submitted stories must be original creations; writers are free to cover any subject.
Writers may only enter a maximum of two stories. Stories may be written in the following languages: Hebrew, English, Arabic or Spanish.
A first prize of $20,000 will be awarded to the winning story. The three remaining finalist stories in the remaining language categories will receive a $2000 runner up prize.
Stories must not exceed 100 words. Entries must be sent exclusively by filling in the entry form that can be found on the foundation website: www.fundacioncesaregidoserrano.com or www.museodelapalabra.com. All stories entered must be original, unpublished in all means (paper, electronic publications, network...) and have not been awarded in any other contest. Those who do not meet this condition will forfeit the entry.
The author certifies that the story sent is of his own authorship.
The competition will end on November 23rd, 2014 GMT+1, on the International Day of the Word as Bond of Humankind.
The finalists will be judged by a selected jury. The list of finalist’s titles will be published on the website of the César Egido Serrano Foundation.
The César Egido Serrano Foundation reserves the right to publish the finalist’s stories.
The decision of the jury is final.
Entry in this contest implies the total acceptance of their rules.
Texts failing to comply with any of the rules will be disqualified.