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Writer Advice www.writeradvice.com. presents Writer Advice’s Fifth Annual Flash Prose Contest. S end us your best short prose up to 750 words. Fiction Memoir Creative non-fiction. Guidelines:.
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Writer Advicewww.writeradvice.com • presents • Writer Advice’s Fifth Annual • FlashProse Contest
Send us your best short prose up to 750 words. • Fiction • Memoir • Creative non-fiction
Guidelines: WriterAdvice,www.writeradvice.com, is searching for flash fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction that grabs, surprises, and mesmerizes readers in fewer than 750 words. If you have a story or memoir with a strong theme, sharp images, a solid structure, and an unexpected discovery, please submit it to the WriterAdvice Flash Prose Contest. DEADLINE: April 15, 2010
Judges and Prizes: • JUDGES: Former prizewinners, Gabrielle Hovendon, Lisa Shafter, Katie Flynn, and Linda Weiford are this year’s judges. Read their pieces and biographies by clicking on the Archived Contest Entries button atwww.writeradvice.com. • PRIZES: First Place earns $150; Second Place earns $75; Third Place earns $50; Fourth Place earns $25; Honorable Mentions will also be published.
Submission Process: • All entries should be typed, double-spaced and submitted in hard copy, not e-mail. Entries must be postmarked by April 15, 2010. Send them to B. Lynn Goodwin, WriterAdvice, P.O. Box 2665, Danville, CA 94526. • You may enter UP TO THREE stories. You are encouraged to double-space. Enclose a $10 check for EACH entry made payable to B. Lynn Goodwin. This will help defray the costs of the contest. If no prizes are awarded, checks will be refunded. • Include a separate cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, current e-mail address, and each story title. Please include only your title at the top of each page of your story. Finalists will be asked to submit a brief biography as well as an e-mail copy of the story. Names of all winners will be announced in the summer issue of WriterAdvice, www.writeradvice.com.
SPECIAL PERK: • All entries accompanied by an SASE will be returned with brief comments. E-mail questions, but not submissions to editor B. Lynn Goodwin atLgood67334@comcast.net.
Not sure how to start? • Start with a sensory image • Start with a photo • Start with a sound • Start with an odor • Start anywhere. • Who will tell your story if you do not?
Read previous winner’s & current judge’s pieces at • http://www.writeradvice.com/archives.html