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Oil Spill Microfiction Contest!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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Over at our sister site, HiLobrow, Patrick Cates has announced a new microfiction contest. The theme: OIL SPILL — WHERE YOU LIVE. Prize money will be donated to a good cause! THE CHALLENGE: Write a story set in the town or city where you live, but imagine that it (and its surrounding area) has been flooded [...]

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Hilobrow micro-fiction contest winner

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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Last month, I announced a micro-fiction contest (about troubled and troubling superhumans) over at Hilobrow.com. The contest began on Jan. 26, 2010 and ended on Feb. 15. We have a winner! Matthew Battles, Matthew De Abaitua, and I selected Charles Pappas’ story from a pool of over 225 entries. Here’s the illustration we commissioned, for [...]

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Short-Short Fiction Contest!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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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 [...]

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Project Update: STORY CONTEST

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Think you can write a great 500-word story in which the item pictured above (a BBQ Sauce Jar) features significantly? You’ll get an opportunity to do so, soon. A well-known online magazine is going to judge a Significant Objects fiction contest — the winning story will be published by the magazine, and also on this [...]

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