Hi everyone,

We just posted information about the Friday Night Flash Fiction Contest:

http://www.contextsf.org/program.htm#flash


At 10pm on Friday, September 27th, we will hold our Flash Fiction Contest!
Contestants will be able to sign up at registration; there will be room for 12 contestants, and sign-ups will be first-come, first serve! The writing workshops will be finished for the evening by the time the contest starts.

There will be two contestant categories: Pro and Amateur. Contestants in the Pro category would include writers who have published three or more short stories or a novel; anyone who would qualify for active status in SFWA or HWA would be a pro. Contestants who would qualify as Amateur would have no or less than two fiction publishing credits.
Contestants will read aloud complete stories of up to 1500 words; they'll be judged both on the story and on their performance of it. People must read their own work, published or unpublished, and must provide the judging panel with four hard copies in standard manuscript format so the judges can follow along. Individuals with speech disabilities, laryngitis, etc. may have friends read for them.

Prizes will include a $25 voucher for the dealer's room, a rare signed hardcover copy of Lucy A. Snyder's Stoker Award winning collection Chimeric Machines, and $50 voucher for the dealer's room.


See you in September!

- Context 26 staff