Month: April 2017

Which “Riders” Flash Fiction Story Gets Your Vote?

Vote5It’s that time again…time to choose your favorite flash fiction story of the week! It’s all up to you now – only one can win Flash Fiction Readers’ Choice Champion honors. It’s super easy – choose your favorite and cast your vote below.

Check out this week’s entries here. Make your decision, then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word. Attention Authors: It is okay if you ask people to vote for you!

Voting polls close Thursday at 5 PM Pacific time. If the poll doesn’t close on time, any votes received after 5 pm will be removed.

REMINDER – entries over the 250 limit are disqualified.

Which "Riders" flash fiction story deserves your vote this week?

  • Stacie Haas (27%, 9 Votes)
  • John P Marentay (15%, 5 Votes)
  • William Weiss (15%, 5 Votes)
  • Judith Garcia (12%, 4 Votes)
  • Paula Evans (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Biswajit Mukhopadhyay (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Luigi Silvestri (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Myrtis Smith (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Annette Rey (3%, 1 Votes)
  • JB Wocoski (3%, 1 Votes)
  • D. Douglas Mains (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Jack Spies (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Mike Sherer (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Rafael Rodriguez (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Jeannie Meekins (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Peter Bar (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 33

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NOTE: Entrants whose submissions exceed the 250 word limit will be disqualified even if they win. ONE VOTE PER PERSON, please. Duplicate votes will be deleted. The results displayed above are unofficial until verified by administration.

April 11th Writing Exercise: Conundrum

writing exercise stretching-498256_960_720Our overworked administrator is getting a well-deserved break today, so we figured you all might like to take this time to exercise your writing chops.

Therefore, here’s a writing prompt for you; do as you wish – short story, flash fiction, poem, what have you. There is no deadline or word count restriction. Just write. (Comments are closed – write on your own.)

This week’s word: CONUNDRUM

Use it however you’d like: as the title, in a sentence, or as inspiration. Ready, set, write!

The Galtellì Literary Prize 2017

Galtelli Literary Prize 2017The village of Galtellì, Sardinia, is launching the second edition of its international prose contest dedicated to the great Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926, who set her masterpiece Canne al Vento, or Reeds in the Wind, right in Galtellì.

The novel selected to inspire and stimulate writers is Canne al Vento. Submissions should reflect or echo the issues that preoccupied Grazia Deledda’s writing, such as identity, class and religion. One unpublished submission per writer. The applicants must write a cover letter explaining why they believe their piece dovetails with Grazia Deledda’s work. Maximum number of words per piece: 5,000

Deadline: April 15, 2017

Entry fee: FREE

Prize:  1st place wins 1,000 euros, travel to (up to 1,000 euros*), accommodation in Sardinia and publication; 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th places win travel to (up to 1,000 euros*), accommodation in Sardinia and publication.

For more information, please visit their website.

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Indies Unlimited is pleased to provide this contest/submissions information for the convenience of our readers.  We do not, however, endorse this or any contest/competition.  Entrants should always research a competition prior to entering.

Judith Garcia Wins Flash Fiction Challenge

Judith Garcia is the Readers’ Choice in this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge. The winning entry is decided by the popular vote and rewarded with a special feature here today. (In the case of a tie, the writer who submitted an entry first is the winner per our rules.)

Without further ado, here’s the winning story:

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