Deadline extended until this Friday, July 8th, at midnight PST!
To celebrate the launch of Stories (Within), an experimental anthology of stories inside stories inside stories available on August 5th, we're hosting the Stories (Within) Flash Fiction Contest!
Rules
Contest Judges Karen Eisenbrey and Debby Dodds … if they were matryoshka dolls.
Entries must be 50 words or less. (Title and author's name don't count against your fifty words.)
Entries must tell a story within a story.
Example:
Drowning Scorpion
by Benjamin Gorman
Bob lowered his eyes. "Suzy, you know that story about the scorpion and the frog? Scorpion promises not to sting the frog. Frog takes him across the river. Halfway, Scorpion poisons Frog, dooming them both. Well-"
Suzy raised her hand. "Don't be dramatic, Bob. I'll be fine without you."
(50 words)
Entries must be received by July 1st, 2022.
Deadline extended until this Friday, July 8th, at midnight PST!
Winners will be announced on August 5th, the launch date of Stories (Within)
You may enter as many times as you like.
Entry fee: Only $1 per entry. (Scholarships available if this is a hardship. Contact notapipepublishing@gmail.com for information.)
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be announced on August 5th, and their stories published on NotaPipePublishing.com. (Some honorable mentions may be highlighted as well.) The 1st place winner will receive a copy of Stories (Within), a flash-fiction-sized trophy, and a cash prize (amount based on the number of entries minus the cost of prizes for winners. Not a Pipe Publishing will not profit from the contest).
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Judges: Karen Eisenbrey, Debby Dodds and Rick M. Cook
Karen Eisenbrey is the author of the Wizard Girl trilogy, the Rage Brigade duology, the forthcoming cross-over novella Far from Normal (co-authored with LeeAnn McLennan), and short stories in Strongly Worded Women, Shout, and Stories (Within). Learn more about Karen HERE.
Debby Dodds is the author of Amish Guys Don’t Call and has stories and essays in Strongly Worded Women, Things That You Would Have Said, The Living Dead magazine, The Sun, xoJane, Portland Family Magazine, Manifest-Station.com, FlashesintheDark.com, Stumptown Underground, The Crimson Crane, Zinkzine.com, and twice in Hip Mama. Her humorous essay, “Why Sarah Palin Needs Me as Her SAT Tutor,” was an editor’s pick on Salon.com. She won both Best Humorous Essay and Fan Favorite in The Attic’s contest at Wordstock. Learn more about Debby HERE.
Rick M. Cook: When he’s not writing his debut novel, The Devil’s Bridge, he is working on one real-life science fiction project after another. He writes and teaches software to help top aerospace and automotive designers around the world wire their vehicles: futuristic all-electric airplanes to airplane seats and control modules to Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters to wiring for the advancement of human knowledge with satellites and space telescopes. Rick has been writing software since he was fifteen and telling stories even longer to entertain himself and friends. A Dungeons & Dragons game exposed his teenage mind to the world of imaginative storytelling, sparking his creativity every day since. He enjoys reading books of history, science fiction/fact, fantasy, thrillers, and has enough Wikipedia tabs open to support a small invading alien army’s intel. He lives in Beaverton, Oregon, along with his wife and two bundles of fun masquerading as dogs.