The Flash Memoir Contest Winners Are 👍✍️👏🎉👍✍️👏🎉👍✍️👏 A Win-Win: In an effort to be fair to all of our four winners, I’ve made a change in prize designations. Here’s what happened: When I read Karen’s piece, I was concerned about whether she had gone through this or not, so I asked if it
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Winter 2020–The Winners of the Scintillating Starts Contest Are…
Winter 2020–The Winners of the Scintillating Starts Contest Are… The Winners of Writer Advice’s 2019 Scintillating Starts Contest are Sue Stewart Ade, Sarah Russell, and Michael Jack Webb. All are excellent writers and I love the voices represented here. The openings of their work are below. My compliments to everyone who entered. There are so many wonderful books
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Fall 2019 — Flash Prose Winners
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” –Joan Didion Flash Prose Winners 2019 The Winners Are — Fall 2019 From the Editor: I continue to be impressed with all the creativity and effort on the part of participants. We
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Spring 2019 Flash Fiction/Prior Contest Winners –The Winners Are…
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” ✍️ –Richard Bach Flash Fiction Winners 2019 The Winners Are — Summer 2019 Editor’s Note: We had some wonderful submissions. Writers using complex characters that surprise me and increase my understanding of the world we live in—all in 750 words—are so impressive. Many
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Prior Winners –2019 Flash Memoir Contest
‘It’s inspiring to read all the submissions and glance into the important moments of so many lives. You inspire me! –B. Lynn Goodwin Flash Memoir Winners 2019 Several submitters commented on the fact that you appreciated hearing comments from a human. From time to time, I submit too, and I agree that
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Scintillating Starts –January to March 2019
This page used to be called Flash. It’s where we post the winners of each contest. The Scintillating Starts of Writer Advice’s 2018 contest are below. Editor’s Note: For the first time ever, we have a four-way tie. The judges score independently. They don’t talk to each other. Why does this matter? If one qualified
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Flash – Volume 19 Number 2
EDITOR’S NOTE: Reading the Scintillating Starts you submitted was an eye-opening experience. I had trouble knowing whether many of them were memoir or fiction. That didn’t figure into my decision about the winners, but it made me realize that I could honor more people if we had separate contests for fiction and memoir. In 2016
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Flash – Volume 21 Number 3
Editor’s Note: One of our judges asked if the quality of submissions was much better now than it was two years ago. I told him I think so. There was also more consistency if the judge’s reactions than usual. The judges score independently. They don’t talk to each other. Why does this matter? If one
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Flash Winners
Editor’s Note: The judges score independently. They don’t talk to each other. Why does this matter? If one qualified judge doesn’t like your piece, take heart and resubmit. Another one will. Just keep searching. Of course if you find things to fix in the meantime, do so. We hope you enjoy these three Flash Travel
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Flash – Volume 19 Number 4
Congratulations toFirst Place Winner, Elena Murphy; Second Place Winner, Laura Ruth Loomis;and three Honorable Mention Winners,J.D. Blair, Eileen Granfors, and Pamela Kelso Seven Notes about the Judging: Character matters. Conflict matters. A fresh angle matters. Something needs to happen. Something needs to change or be resolved. The quality of the writing and the
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Flash – Volume 20 Number 2
Congratulations to our fourScintillating Starts WinnersFrank Joseph, Susan Keller,Chris Muniz, and Deborah L. Stautonand Honorable Mention Winner, Julie K. Royce Suggestion: Enjoy these stories. Bookmark this page. You may want to come back and reread this collection. TO DO JUSTICEBy Frank Joseph Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS Ever since I’m little
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Flash – Volume 20 Number 4
Congratulations to our three Flash Fiction Winners: First Place: Kathy Joyce Second Place: K. Alan Leitch Third Place: Laura Fischer Honorable Mentions: K. Eldr Rochelle Weidner Suggestion: Please enjoy these wonderful stories. If you have a message for an author, send it to me and I will forward it. Note: The next contest, Scintillating
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