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2007 One-Page Short Story Prize
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Summary - The Rules - Entry Fees - On-Line Entries - Postal Entries - Judge
This is your annual opportunity to turn your hands to what is one of the most difficult, and rewarding tasks that a writer might elect to face; to create, in a tiny fragment, a completely resolved and compelling story. Flash Fiction is a wonderfully entertaining thing to read and a frustratingly challenging thing to write, but we love it and so do the readers of our Anthology, and so this is another chance to get one of your stories, however small, into this year's Fish Anthology.
Competition Summary
Opens: 1 January 2007
Closing date: 31 March 2007
Results: 30 April 2007
Judge - Robert Shapard
Prizes:
A First Prize of €1,000 to the winner plus publication in the 2007
Fish Anthology.
Up to nine runners-up will also be selected to appear in the Anthology and will each receive an award of €100 plus five complementary copies of the Anthology.
All winning authors will be invited to the launch of the 2007 Fish Short Story Prize Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival at Bantry House in July 2007.
The Rules
- No entry form is needed, this is an On-line competition.
- You can enter as many times as you wish. One story per entry.
- The Prize is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.
- There is no restriction on theme or style.
- Stories should be around 250 words, up to an ABSOLUTE maximum of 300.
- The title is not included in the word count, within reason!, i.e. 10-word title max.
- The winning stories must be available for the Anthology and, therefore, must not have been published previously.
- Copyright remains with the author.
- Notification of receipt of entry will be by email.
- The judges' verdict is final.
- No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.
- Stories cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered.
On-Line Entries
This is an On-line competition, and entries will only be accepted if entered through our website. Please do not send stories as email attachments. Enter on line
PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE STORY. YOUR STORY IS AUTOMATICALLY LINKED TO YOUR NAME.
SHORT STORIES CAN BE TRICKY THINGS, SO IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE
AT ALL GETTING YOUR ENTRY INTO THE SYSTEM, OR TO LOOK RIGHT WHEN YOU
HAVE SUBMITTED IT, THEN SIMPLY SEND YOUR ORIGINAL VERSION TO US, AND
WE WILL SEND IT BACK IN A FORM THAT WILL UP-LOAD PERFECTLY.
SIMPLY CLICK HERE
Entry Fees
The cost of an On-line entry is fixed in Euro and the conversion into your local currency will be done automatically by your credit card company according to the current exchange rate.
| On-Line Entry € |
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| Per Entry | 12.00 |
| Critique (Optional) | 25.00 |
2006 Short Story Anthology |
10.00 (Inc. p. & p.) |
Postal Entries
This year's One-Page Short Story Prize is, in line with all of our
competitions, On-Line entry only.
For those of you who might be concerned about entering on-line or encounter
any problems entering the competition or paying for your entry, or getting
your submission to look right, simply click on
Fish Support
We will work with you to make sure your story can be entered into the competition.
Judge Biography
Robert Shapard
Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Robert Shapard
is co-editor with James Thomas of FLASH
FICTION FORWARD: 80 VERY SHORT STORIES (2006) and NEW
SUDDEN FICTION: SHORT-SHORT STORIES FROM AMERICA AND BEYOND (2007),
both published by W.W. Norton & Co. (wwnorton.com).
Shapard and Thomas have been publishing anthologies of very short fiction
for 20 years, and are university teachers of creative writing. A chapbook
of Shapard's own short-short stories, "Motel
and Other Stories" can be found at Amazon.com.
"I'm interested in fiction writing, have had stories published
widely, am a regular teacher on the creative writing faculty, and have
been a recent director of the CW program at Manoa. I'm editor of a number
of anthologies of fiction, including the Sudden
Fiction series and a collection of outstanding immigrant writings
called Stories in the Stepmother Tongue; and I've edited various
literary journals, including Manoa, which I co-founded with
Frank Stewart. Although I've taught mostly workshops, I've also devised
and enjoyed teaching reading courses for writers."
Short Stories to read online
Read online some of the winning entries from previous Fish Anthologies. These are examples of the calibre that win the Fish Short Story Prize. Short Stories to read online
Writing Short Stories
Our new Writing feature provides some suggestions on the art of story writing. The page is designed to provide writers with on-going, constructive information about how other authors achieved success with writing short fiction. For more information visit our Writing Short Stories page.
Online Book Shop
You can buy Fish Publishing's Anthologies of short stories on-line in our online book shop – The Fish Shop.
Online Entry
Our Fish-On-Line online entry system provides a convenient way to enter our contests on the web. Register as an online Fish author and you can enter current and forthcoming Writing Contests. Writers may also enter any of our competitions by post. See our Writing Contests page for full details
Writing Contests - Assistance
Fish Publishing offers an Editorial Consultancy and Critique Service. designed to provide writers thinking of entering writing competitions with constructive feedback on their work, whether it is a complete novel or just the beginnings. The Service is available to writers prior to entering the Fish writing competitions.