Congratulations to @fuzzynick (Nick Black) for winning our third flash fiction contest! Nick won a free copy of Mary Papas’s Take Off Your Mask. We thoroughly enjoyed reading our entries and thank the participants for their time! Nick’s winning story “U Got Continue Reading
Flash Fiction Contest #3!
If you haven’t heard, we’ve put together a short story contest where you have a chance to be featured in an upcoming anthology! You can find more information about that right here. Those entries aren’t due until Nov 9th, so Continue Reading
Short Story Anthology Contest
It’s that time of year. NaNoWriMo is just around the corner. We writers and authors are gearing up for an intense month of writing, and yet somehow still getting our holiday shopping done, keeping our homes habitable, keeping our coffee Continue Reading
Words from our Winners
As promised, our winners from last week’s contest get to share a post with you. We asked them to write up a short essay on why they write (or how they started writing). Congrats again, and thank you everyone who Continue Reading
The Winners of the Second Short Story Contest!
Congratulations to @scturnbull (Stuart Turnbull) and @septula86 (Jenna) for winning our second short story contest! We thoroughly enjoyed reading all of your stories and we actually had a tie this time! Stuart’s story can be found here: http://thisunitedstate.com/flash-stories/the-hill-of-her-heart/ Jenna’s story is Continue Reading
Short Story Contest #2: Obsession
Hi everyone! It’s Friday, and that means that it’s time for another contest! This week’s theme is “obsession.” You could do anything from a funny story about a woman obsessed with finding the perfect purple pen, or you could do Continue Reading
An Interview with Natashaski
Although Natashaski is new to the writing world, we were wowed by her flash fiction story she submitted for the Short Story and Flash Fiction Society contest on September 26th, 2014. She is beginning her writing and blogging journey at the Vagarious Continue Reading
Short Story Contest
Hi all! This week we’re doing something a bit different. The challenge is a short story called “Blind Date”! Here are the rules: Keep your word count between 700-1200 The story can be funny, dark, romantic, dramatic, or anything you Continue Reading
Writing Inspiration
The last two weeks, we’ve used photos as prompts for our contests. And we were floored by the submissions. The amount of creativity–and variety!–that could come out of the same prompt was just astounding. So that’s why we’re putting this Continue Reading
Flash Fiction Contest #2!
We’re excited to bring another flash fiction contest to you guys. As with last week, we have another photo prompt that should get that brain juice flowing, and we have another author interview as a prize! Directions follow the prompt. Continue Reading