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Enter your Experimental Short Story to the FlameFlower Contest
Your story will be featured here, with your photo and bio, and a link to your information on Experimental Writing.
It will also be displayed prominently on the Experimental Writing site, with commentary by Tantra Bensko, bio and photo and your notes on the story and list of future honors, publications, or news, any time you want to send them in. The winner receives a certificate of award suitable for framing, an image to include on your website that links to the award, and 50 dollars.Entry costs 8.00 per short story. You may also pay by check or money order; just ask in your email for the address.
Send your short story in the body of an email, and also as an attachment, including your name, and Pen name, address, and email address. You may also enter through the Experimental Writing Site, or Lucid Fiction.
Contest Guidelines
Please send your short stories to Tantra Bensko at flameflower@runbox.com with the subject line including the word "Contest," the name of the piece, and your last name. The entry fee is 8 dollars and can be paid through Paypal with the button below, by check or money order. If paying by check or money order, simply request the address in the email with your submission, and write the name of your submission on the check.Stories previously published online on your website, or writing sites, online magazines, or in print in magazines, anthologies, or your own collection are fine, as long as you have the rights to display them by this summer.
The only requirement for the stories is that they be at least somewhat experimental in nature, avant-garde, innovative, subversive, post-modernist, or whichever word you prefer for fine cutting edge literature that goes beyond the traditions of mainstream fiction. Tantra will be judging it personally. Students are not allowed to enter stories she has seen, Her partner, and family members are excluded from entering. Stories submitted to classes are not allowed entry. Unknown writers who have published nothing are considered just as fully as well known writers. The quality of the story counts, and of course, contests are always simply a reflection of the judge's personal taste.
Copy and paste into the body of the email as well as including the attachment of the story. You may enter as many stories as you like each with its own fee. Include your name, email, and address, and your pen name if applicable. Do not include a bio or link to site.
The submission must be entered by July 4th, 2010. You will be contacted through email to let you know if you have won or not and a certificate of award suitable for framing will be mailed to you along with a check or payment by Paypal if you prefer. Please understand that if you don't win, that doesn't mean Tantra doesn't love and adore your story. She may think it is one of the best things in the world, but she will only pick one winner. However, if she feels she can make useful comments on the work, or suggest places to publish unpublished pieces, or promote it herself, she'll do so. There will be other contests, so please consider entering again with new work later.
The winning piece will remain on this site. The winner is welcome to submit details of new publications, awards, etc. at any time in the future to be displayed along with the short story. You retain rights to your story.
This site retains exclusive rights to your commentary about it, which should be a few paragraphs long, as well as my own comments on it.
The FlameFlower site is integrated with this one. The FlameFlower contest winners' writings will be featured in full there. This way, you will be able to point to your pieces easily and show off their URLs.