June 5th is the deadline to enter HiLobrow’s OIL SPILL — WHERE YOU LIVE short-short story contest. Prize money will be donated to a good cause! THE CHALLENGE: Write a story set in the town or city where you live, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Over at our sister site, HiLobrow, Patrick Cates has announced a third micro-fiction contest. The theme: TELEPATHY. The deadline for submissions is 9p.m. EST on Sunday, April 25., so act fast! THE GUIDELINES: No more than 250 words. Only one … Continue reading
In January, I announced a micro-fiction contest over at HiLobrow.com, an intellectual/literary website that I edit with Matthew Battles. We recently appointed Patrick Cates the site’s Magister Ludi (Master of Games), and yesterday Mr. Cates announced a second micro-fiction contest. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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: … Continue reading
So far we’ve had six stories contributed to our Fictionaut group, all about this music box. Fictionaut community feedback hasn’t really anointed a clear champion — maybe you’d like to weigh in? The stories (click the title to read) are: … Continue reading
Last month, I said that if enough of you wrote a six-word story about the Scottish Doll, an object purchased for Significant Objects but then thrown into the garbage, I’d pick a winner and issue a prize. Forty-odd stories later, … Continue reading
I say “sorta” because although there really is a contest, the winning story won’t be posted to eBay. Why not? Because the Scottish Doll was thrown away, and therefore can’t be sold on eBay. Read about the Scottish Doll’s fate … Continue reading
In the months before we published the 100th story in our Significant Objects experiment, many of you clicked on an author’s name — in the Contributors list, at the right-hand side of this page — and found yourself directed to … Continue reading
Thanks again to all who participated in our Six-Word Contest in Conjunction with SmithMag.net. And while I’m at it: Thanks, SmithMag.net! We published our winner yesterday: Read (and bid!) here. It was, of course, an excruciating choice. Peruse the 400+ … Continue reading
We’ll be posting the SmithMag/Significant Objects Six Word Contest winner momentarily, and publishing the five runners-up tomorrow. There were about 430 submissions, which make for fun reading, here. Once again it was a very tough choice, so big thanks to … Continue reading
Around 400 six-word stories about the lighter-that-looks-like-a-small-poolball so far. Pretty fun reading. Deadline is 8 pm Eastern tonight; we’ll pick a winner and publish early next week. Read/enter/do both: here.
Earlier this morning I checked in on the progress of our Six Words Significant Objects contest, in collaboration with SmithMag. In its first 24 hours, the contest has attracted 144 submissions. Josh notes that this works out to a story … Continue reading
We couldn’t be more thrilled with the creative results of our contest in partnership with Slate (600+ entries), and the economic results are looking good, too: As I type, bidding on the Bar-B-Q Jar + Story by Matthew J. Wells … Continue reading
Congratulations to Matthew J. Wells, whose BBQ Sauce Jar story — entered in a Significant Objects contest earlier this month — triumphed over 600+ other entries to earn top honors, from a panel of judges from Slate.com, as well as … Continue reading
Earlier this month, when we announced that Slate was hosting a fiction contest to select one of the 100 stories we’d publish as part of the Significant Objects project, we figured that it would only take a couple of days … Continue reading
Don’t sleep, people: The deadline for our Significant Objects Story Contest is fast approaching: Submit a 500-word story featuring the object pictured above (a barbecue sauce jar) by Friday Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. That’s tomorrow! As a reminder, our … Continue reading
