AUGUST, 2018—BULLETIN #139

We're at the mid-point of the Fiction Open and the Very Short Fiction Award contests, prizes totaling $7,400 in prizes.
Deadline: August 31

1,820 letters later, 1946

VERY SHORT

1st place | $2,000

2nd place | $500*

3rd place | $300*

300-3,000 words

$16 reading fee

Writing Guidelines

FICTION OPEN

1st place | $3,000

2nd place | $1,000

3rd place | $600*

3,000-28,000 words

$21 reading fee

Writing Guidelines

*Or, if accepted for publication, $700.
(1st place stories are always published and every story is read and considered for publication.)

Both categories are open to all writers. Winners and finalists will be announced in the November 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.

In case you missed it, please read our May announcement. We're eager to read your stories!

Essays in this bulletin:

Marian Crotty: Knowing these details gives me the imagery to create a memorable world filled with vivid sensory information, but these details also give me ideas about what the protagonist might be thinking and feeling and who or what may interrupt her agenda. (more)

Laura Furman: Undisturbed silence is hard to come by. Silence in which I am not resisting silence is even more rare. The mind chatters. The imagination looks for what else there is to see and think about; it looks for what comes next. (more)

Lee Martin: A useful thing to do when reading novels is to think about how a scene later in the book is only possible because of scenes that precede it. (more)

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