Short-Short Fiction Contest!

by Joshua Glenn | Wed, Jan 27, 2010

ABOUT the PROJECT

Over at Hilobrow.com, a critical-culture website that I coedit with Matthew Battles, we’ve just invited our readers to enter a science-fiction short-short story contest. We’d be delighted to have Significant Objects readers enter, as well. Check it out.

CONTEST DEADLINE: February 15 (soon!)

STORY LENGTH: No more than 250 words

STORY THEME: troubled and/or troubling superhumans

THE JUDGES: Hilobrow.com editors Matthew Battles and Joshua Glenn; and Hilobrow.com contributor Matthew De Abaitua, author of the award-winning 2009 sci-fi novel The Red Men and a presenter for the British TV series SF:UK.

PRIZE: Hilobrow t-shirt; story published on Hilobrow.com and recorded as part of a podcast. A few runners-up will be published on the website, also.

CONTEST GUIDELINES & MORE CLICK HERE

The significance of this object has been invented by the author; see the project description for details. Click here to receive email updates.

About the author:

Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn is a cultural semiotics analyst and independent scholar. He is the coeditor of Taking Things Seriously (2007), a collection of ordinary objects with extraordinary significance; and coauthor of The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut; today, he is coeditor of Hilobrow.com.

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  1. Hilobrow micro-fiction contest winner | Significant Objects says:
    February 21, 2010 at 10:09 am

    [...] month, I announced a micro-fiction contest (about troubled and troubling superhumans) over at Hilobrow.com. The contest began on Jan. 26, 2010 [...]

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