Flash fiction contests

Announcing the Blue Earth Review's 5th Annual Flash Fiction Contest
http://www.mnsu. edu/blueearth/

We are now reading entries for our *fifth* annual flash fiction contest.
Send us your brightest, boldest flash fiction - the only requirement is that
each entry is 600 words or less.
Reading fee is $5 for up to three entries. Checks can be addressed to Blue
Earth Review.
Three winners will be chosen and awarded $100, $75, and $25.

Send your entries and a brief cover letter, along with an SASE, to
Blue Earth Review
Student Union 192
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001.

Please clearly mark the mailing envelope as "flash fiction contest."
We will be reading until 1 December 2007.
Entries postmarked 2 December or later will be read as fiction submissions
but not considered for the contest.

All entries will also be considered for general publication unless otherwise
marked.
Winners will be announced sometime in December and the three winning pieces
will be published in Volume VI: Spring 2008.


Sonora Review Short-Short Contest
Prize: $250 and publication. Ten finalists will also be considered for
publication.
Judge: David Means

Guidelines
For our purposes, "short-short" means 1,000 words or less. Stories over 1,000
words will not be considered. No previously published works, or works
forthcoming elsewhere. A $10 fee is required; entrants may submit up to three stories
(each 1,000 words max.) with each $10 fee, payable by check or money order
made out to Sonora Review. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but fees are
non-refundable. Cover letter must include name, address, phone number, and
title(s) of stories submitted.

Manuscripts need not be left anonymous. Postmark deadline: December 1, 2007.

Contest is open to all writers, except those who are currently students or
instructors in the University of Arizona's MFA program. Contest results will be
announced on our website in the spring, and in our Spring 2008 print edition.
All entries must include an SASE for notification. Manuscripts will not be
returned. Judge's decision is final.

Send entries to:

Sonora Review Contest
Department of English
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721

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The Heartland Review's Third Annual Short-short Fiction Prize

1st Place - $100 and publication in The Heartland Review’s winter issue
2nd Place - $75 and publication in The Heartland Review’s winter issue
3rd Place - $50 and publication in The Heartland Review’s winter issue

Submissions should be no longer than 1000 words, typed, and double-spaced.
There is a $5 entry fee for each story. (Checks should be made out to The
Heartland Review.) Send cover page with name, address, and word count. Name and
address should not appear on the pages of the story.

Submissions are juried blind by The Heartland Review’s Editorial Board.
Post-mark deadline for entries is November 20, 2007. Winners will be announced in
December and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series. Include
Self Addressed Stamped Envelope for results.

Mail entries to:
The Heartland Review
Short-short Fiction Prize
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community & Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

For more information e-mail Mick Kennedy at mick.kennedy( at)kctcs. edu
(replace (at) with @)
or call (270) 706-8407