MISSION: Our goal is to help in the growth of quality flash fiction for writers and readers online and in print. This site is dedicated to the discussion of the art and craft of flash fiction, fiction in general, and the issues of writing, marketing, and publishing today.
SUBMIT
Flash Fiction Blog is interested in helping fiction writers to create high-quality flash fiction. With that goal in mind, we are open to blog post submissions.
You may submit new or already published blog posts from your own blog. You must own the rights to your post. If posted here at Flash Fiction Chronicles, you retain those rights.
GUIDELINES:
The target length of posts should be between 200 and 1200 words, although longer pieces will be considered.
All submissions should be clean, tight, edited, proofread, and focused on a particular aspect of writing flash fiction, the process of writing, or the discussion of publishing and marketing.
Here are some possible topics:
Write about why you write flash.
Write about why you write.
Write about not being published.
Write about the experience of your first published piece.
Write about how you handle rejection.
Write about strategies you use to keep your head in the game and your fingers on the key board.
Write about your experiences with writing groups, seminars, conferences, and classes in general.
Write about the most important thing you’ve learned. The best advice.
Write about the most obnoxious thing any one ever told you.
Write about how you handle your family and/job and still write.
Write about how to deal with discouragement.
Write about how you learned the craft.
Write about what you think is more important craft or talent or both.
Write about your process.
Write about how you get your characters.
Write about how you get your ideas.
Write about your favorite writing book.
Write about what books inspired you to write.
Write about the craft: the story arc, the three-act structure, character development, theme, motif, symbolism, metaphor, what makes a hack, settings, set-up and pay-offs.
Submit Original Article
Size limit: 200-1500 words
Use this to submit articles written specifically for Flash Fiction Chronicles and that have not been published elsewhere.Reprints by Submitting Author
Size limit: 200-1500 words
Use this to submit articles which have appeared elsewhere. Please include date and venue in which the article originally appeared.String-of-10 FOUR Flash Fiction Contest
Size limit: 250 words maximum
For the week of February 12 through February 18, Flash Fiction Chronicles is having its fourth String-of-10 Contest—String-of-10 FOUR—for the best 250-word story written from a randomly selected string of ten words.The rules of this year's contest are listed after the prompt. The contest is open for one week. All entries must be submitted through our Submission Manager. There will be no other prompt words for this week while the contest is running. Regular daily prompts will begin again next Sunday.
STRING-OF-10 FOUR PROMPT:
JAR-MOSS-GRAVITY-EDGE-CAST-STAND-ORGAN-TIRE-BITTER-WAGE
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. --Marcus Tullius Cicero*
And here’s the rest of the information you will need:
GUIDELINES
1. The prompt for String-of-10 Four will be available at 12:01 on Sunday, February 12, 2012 here at FFC.
2. There is no entry fee.
3. Submit up to two stories at up to 250 words each.
4. All stories must contain at least four words from the String-of-10.
5. Seamless integration of any four of the prompt words is the goal.
6. The aphorism is given for thematic inspiration. Using the theme of "freedom" is not necessary to win. However, this year we will give out *a special prize for the story that best incorporates the theme. The Patricia McFarland Memorial prize. First, second, and third place winners are eligible to also win this prize, but any story that is submitted that best uses this theme may win.
7. Entries must be received by 11:59 PDT Saturday, February 18.
8. Winners will be notified sometime in March 2012. Publications will follow in April.
9. All decisions made by the FFC staff and our guest judge are final.
PRIZES STRING-OF-TEN FOUR FLASH FICTION CONTEST
1st Place: Winner will have his or her story published at Every Day Fiction in April, 2012 and be paid the standard payment of $3.00 per story. But this year we are upping the ante, a $50 Cash Prize from Flash Fiction Chronicles will go to the first place winner. A copy of The Best of Every Day Fiction Four along with a copy of Pomegranate Stories by Gay Degani, editor of Flash Fiction Chronicles, will also be awarded as well as an “I Write Every Day” t-shirt. As a special bonus this year, Robert Swartwood, our guest judge, has decided to throw in a copy of his own collection of (very) short fiction, Phantom Energy!
2nd and 3rd Place: Winners will have their stories published at Flash Fiction Chronicles in April. (There is no payment for publication at Flash Fiction Chronicles). A copy of The Best of Every Day Fiction Four along with a copy of Pomegranate Stories by Gay Degani, the editor of Flash Fiction Chronicles will be awarded to 2nd and 3rd place winners.
The Patricia McFarland Memorial Prize: Winner will have his or her story published at Flash Fiction Chronicles in April. (There is no payment for publication at Flash Fiction Chronicles) and a cash prize of $20.00.