National Public Radio (NPR) has announced the latest installment of its Three Minute Fiction contest. The contest, which was launched in 2009, invites writers to create stories in fewer than 600 words, which can be read in roughly three minutes.
Although the initial contest held only the word-count guideline, judge Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has given this sixth iteration a few more rules. Adichie, the author of critically acclaimed books Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, has stated that each story submitted for this contest must include a) a joke and b) someone crying.
For more information on rules and guidelines, and for information on how to submit stories, please visit http://npr.org/.
The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. ET on January 23, 2011.
Showing posts with label writing contests. Show all posts
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Submission Fees
I have submitted to contests and understand that the submission fee is to pay the prize money - makes sense when a literary journal can barely keep itself afloat. It seems that universities are no longer supporting their journals (a shame) and the writers keep them in business....
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