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January-March 2025 Micro Contest Winners

By B. Lynn Goodwin

The Contest Winners Are Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linkedin Congratulations to the eight winners of Writer Advice’s 2024 Micro Fiction Contest! We’ll start posting on January 8th. Why? It’s a mystery right now, but I promise it’s a good reason. Here’s the schedule for the work will appear each week. On January 8th

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Prior Contest Winners–Scintillating Starts 2024

By B. Lynn Goodwin

The Contest Winners Are Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linkedin “The ideal book will entice readers with something new—new characters, new plot, new outcome, a sense of urgency, or even an unexpected look at a familiar topic.”   ~~B. Lynn Goodwin Scintillating Starts with Promise The publishing world is constantly changing. Today’s agents are

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2024 Flash Prose Prior Contest Winners

By B. Lynn Goodwin

The Contest Winners Are Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linkedin EDITOR’S NOTE: ✍️   The Flash Memoir Contest remained open according to one site publicizing it. People thought this meant that Flash Memoir and Flash Fiction were running concurrently.   Okay. Things happen. The best solution seemed to be to turn this into a

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Spring 2024~~Prior Contest Winners

By B. Lynn Goodwin

The Memoir Contest Winners Are We’d love to have you enter our current contest. Click on either Current or Latest Contest for submission information.  The winners of Writer Advice’s Flash Memoir Contest are Laura Winig, whose piece, “The Changing Room” appears this week. Eveline Pye, whose piece, “Five Stages of Enlightenment” will appear on April

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Prior Contest Winners~~ Micro Fiction

By B. Lynn Goodwin

Congratulations to our nine Flash Micro Winners. Interested in our Flash Memoir Contest? Go to https://writeradvice.com/latest-contest-information/ to read all the details.  Flash Micro Winners Some sent Dribbles (50 words), some sent Drabbles (100 words), and some sent Micros (up to 500 words). Our winners had pieces that resonated—often because of the ending, sometimes because of the

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Prior Contest Winners — Flash Prose 2023

By B. Lynn Goodwin

The Contest Winners Are Congratulations to all winners and honorable mentions. Being either a winner or a finalist is a great way to build your platform. Put it on your resume.  We appreciate reading your work and hope to hear more from you in future contests. In First Place is  The Grandeur of a Storm

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Prior Contest Winners ~~ Flash Prose 2023

By B. Lynn Goodwin

Contests help writers who are building their platform.  Congratulations to all and thank you to our judges! First Place: Butterfly Moments By Mark Holman-Lisney I stare out the rain-splattered window as conversation is difficult. She’s eaten all her chips but left the fish despite my cutting it up to encourage her. Bored with her food

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Prior Contest Winners — Flash Memoir — 2023

By B. Lynn Goodwin

Congratulations to all and thank you to our judges! The Contest Winners Are   A Bowl of Soul By Jamie Li, First Place Winner Scanning through the usual list of suspects, I mull over how I want to fill my well today. English Breakfast is good for that boost. Chai dissipates all miserable afternoons. Then

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2022-23 Prior Contest Winners of Scintillating Starts

By B. Lynn Goodwin

The Contest Winners Are Starting this month I will be offering Scintillating Starts as an ongoing opportunity… Editor’s Note: I’ll give the same individualized feedback. This opportunity will be available year round and you can get feedback on any opening of prose. Details are on the Manuscript Consultation Page.  Each piece here is a winner.

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2022 ~~ Flash Prose Contest Winners

By B. Lynn Goodwin

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Flash Fiction Winners 2022

By Emily Gray

I’m always amazed at the range of experiences I read about in the Flash Prose Contest. Special thanks to the judges and to each of you who took courage in hand and submitted your work. We’re happy to read your pieces in any contest, so don’t hesitate to enter again. Thanks for sharing. First Place:

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2022 Flash Memoir Contest

By B. Lynn Goodwin

Flash Memoir is a great way to preserve your stories. Our compliments to all the finalists, near finalists, and submitters. We hope our feedback is useful. We’d love to hear from you again. Please let us know how your career is going. NOTE: This is the one section that is only changed once a quarter. Our

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