Yes! It’s that time of the year again.

Fellow speculative fiction fan, Sheri Yutzy, and I are hosting a flash fiction contest and this time Laura L. Zimmerman is joining us!

We’re so excited to see the amazing flash fiction work YOU come up with.

We’ve got some great prizes lined up to feed your flash fiction soul.

1st place:

• 9 oz. “Stars Eternal”  candle from Novelly Yours
• An autographed (by Laura) copy of Splickety June 2018 issue-Laura is published in this one
• A choice of Whittaker’s artisan chocolate from New Zealand
• Ebook copy of Stories of the Stars, by Sheri Yutzy
• Publication on
  • sheriyutzy.com, jebraunclifford.com, and lauralzimmerman.com

2nd place:

• 4 oz. Stars Eternal candle from Novelly Yours
• Ebook copy of Stories of the Stars, by Sheri Yutzy
• Publication on sheriyutzy.com, jebraunclifford.com, and lauralzimmerman.com

3rd place:

• Publication on sheriyutzy.com, jebraunclifford.com, and lauralzimmerman.com

Submission instructions:

Deadline: Friday, October 5, 2018

Submit to: storiesofthestarscontest@gmail.com

Length: 700-1000 words

Genre: Speculative fiction

Theme: Stars—your story must mention stars in some way.

Submit your story as a separate document. Please include the title of your piece, your name, and contact information in the heading of your document. If your story does not fall within the speculative fiction genre, it will be disqualified.

• No excessive violence or language
• No erotica

Winners will be announced October 19, 2018. So what are you waiting for? Get writing! And if you need any help or advice about writing flash fiction, check out this great ‘how to’ post by Laura over on Quills & Inkblotts. You can also check out last year’s winning entry and the second-place story for inspiration.

Good luck!

Jebraun Clifford always wanted to step through a door into an imaginary kingdom, so it’s no surprise she now calls Middle Earth home. Too short to be an elf and too tall to be a Hobbit, she lives smack-dab in the centre of New Zealand’s North Island in a town filled with thermal activity, stunning lakes, and enough Redwoods to make her Californian heart swoon. She writes about discovering identity, living without fear, and enjoys creating fantastic worlds. Her unpublished YA fantasy, The Two Queens of Kyrie, won both the American Christian Fiction Writer’s 2015 First Impressions contest and the 2016 Genesis contest. She loves coffee, tree ferns, dark chocolate, and Jesus, and harbours a secret penchant for British spelling.

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