“Almost an Inkling” Flash Fiction Contest Week 1 Winners!
October 5, 2015
Check out the “Almost an Inkling” Flash Fiction Contest, Week 1:
Click over to the contest home page to watch a video in which I talk about the winners and to download a .pdf of the winning entries!
Week 1 was:
Through Mysterious Doors
This week, we entered the world of microfiction with stories of up to 333 words that involved portals into other realms. Our writers took a character through some kind of gateway or past some threshold into a secondary world unlike our own.
POPULAR RUNNER-UP:
Eugene Sullivan, “The Stairwell”
POPULAR WINNER (tied):
Brenton Dickieson, “One Step Into Dawn”
POPULAR WINNER (tied):
Olivia Jakobitz, “Through the Porthole”
LITERARY WINNER Second Runner-Up:
Cheryl Cardoza, “Fairy Rings”
LITERARY WINNER First Runner-Up:
Anne Whitver, “Never Trust a Clock”
LITERARY PRIZE WINNER:
Laura Crouse, “Lot’s Wife”
Here are links to some other works that didn’t win, but you might enjoy reading them:
http://oliviasletters.blogspot.com/2015/10/microfiction.html
https://www.academia.edu/16457825/Tales_from_Underground_Gambit
http://alasnotme.blogspot.com/2015/10/by-waters-of-avalon.html
https://twilightswarden.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/mud-a-short-story/
http://oliviasletters.blogspot.com/2015/10/magical-portals-and-whatnot.html