Find your next favourite story now
Login

"Escape" Micro fiction vs Poetry competition (£5 prizes, plus web/print publication)

last reply
3 replies
4.5k views
0 watchers
0 likes
Active Ink Slinger
0 likes
Hi all,

I'm running a new writing contest on the site I help run The Great Escape.

Full details available at http://thegreatesc.com/competitions

DETAILS:

Are you team Micro Fiction or team Poetry? Join in the battle of the short form literature by entering your work into our competition. The team with the most entries will be declared the winner.

Your theme is “Escape”, what you do with it is up to you. We’re looking for originality, creativity and powerful expression in a short space.

Flash fiction pieces must be no longer than 150 words, written in prose with standard prose formatting (e.g. paragraphs, speech marks around dialogue, etc.). Try to give your piece a story structure.

Poems must conform to a 40 line limit AND 150 word limit. They may take any form, including free verse. If you wish to use any unusual formatting, such as line spacing, please include a PDF or JPG version to show how it should look on the page.

Illustrations may be submitted with entries, and may be picked to feature on the site, but will not influence the judging process.

Please refer to the general terms below for instructions on how to submit your entry and further information.

Prizes

Two 1st prizes (one for each category) of £5.00 cash.

Winners and selected runners up will be be offered the chance to have their entry published on both the site and the Great Escape’s second print Anthology (Winter 2013).
Blog | Twitter | Website - The Great Escape

My new four part novella, The Star Coin Prophesy is now
available to read on my website, The Great Escape:
e2ZeQHyELydH DphdhpCccL3x
Rest in Peace
0 likes
I had entered this contest with this story back in 2012...

One Chance
by Alan W. Jankowski

Nikolai reached his hand into his pocket and felt the knife. He had worked for weeks on it, slowly grinding down the stone blade day by day. Somehow just the feel of it was comforting, and he knew he would be using it in a few short hours. He only had one chance to take out the guard when he reached the perimeter, and he knew the hours he spent honing the blade would soon pay off. From there he would have to rush to the lake and quickly assemble the raft he had made out of drop cloths, and bottles he found lying around the prison camp behind the officer’s quarters.

He thought about his wife when she woke up in the morning. He wished he could take her, but he knew she would understand. He’d come for her when he could, but for now, his people needed him.

09-26-12.


I had seen recently that there was a similar flash contest with a similar theme, except the word limit was only 100 words this time...anyway, I took a couple of sentences out, and edited out a couple of words, and submitted it...

It ended up winning third place...I get an online writing course, and of course publication on the blog...here's the link, and you can read the other winners...good deal me thinks...

Results of Morgen’s January 100-word competition
https://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/results-of-morgens-january-100-word-competition/

Morgen does this every month, so if it sounds like something of interest, check it out my friends...and Good Luck...
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...