Let’s cut to the chase: The annual North Coast Journal Flash Fiction Contest is on. Tell your tale in 99 words or fewer, not including the title, for a chance at a prize or to see your story in the Journal. Email up to three entries as attachments to fiction@northcoastjournal.com with your full name and […]
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Flash Fiction 2018
Got time for a tale? Just a quickie? Sure you do, especially if it’s only 99 words. This year contributors spun miniature yarns rife with family drama, internal battles, faith, space travel and, as always, murder. (Why so murder-y, Humboldt?) All that wrapped up in tight nuggets of text you could cover with one hand, […]
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Make it Fast: The Flash Fiction Contest is Back
Hurry up! It’s time to flex your storytelling skills for the annual North Coast Journal Flash Fiction Contest. You’ve got 99 words or fewer, not including the title. You might just win a prize or see your story in the Journal. Email your entries as attachments to fiction@northcoastjournal.com with your full name and contact information […]
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Back in a Flash
Well, look what’s back again: the North Coast Journal Flash Fiction Contest. It’s time to send your original 99-word story (or fewer, title not included) to our judges for a shot at getting your work in the paper or winning a prize. Email as many entries as you like to fiction@northcoastjournal.com between now and 9 […]
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Lightning Strikes
It’s a dark and stormy night … what better time to work on your 99-word Flash Fiction Issue entry? You never know, you could even end up with a book, like frequent flash contributor Neil Tarpey, whose collection of extremely short stories, Flashes of Lightning, comes out in just a few weeks. He writes that […]
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Flash Fiction: No, The Title Doesn’t Count
Dust off those plot twists … the North Coast Journal Flash Fiction Contest is back! Send your original story of 99 words or fewer to our judges for a chance at publication and a prize. Email your entries to fiction@northcoastjournal.com between now and 9 a.m. on Oct. 24. Be sure to include your name, address […]
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Flash Fiction 2015
Got 99 problems but a plot ain’t one? Crack your knuckles and start typing — the North Coast Journal Flash Fiction Contest is back. Send your original story of 99 words or fewer to our judges for a chance at publication and a prize. Email your entries to fiction@northcoastjournal.com between Sept. 24 and 5 p.m. […]
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Flash Fiction Contest!
Inside your brain is a very tiny story (but it’s BIG, baby, real big). We want to read it. Our judges want to judge it. Fame, publication, a prize — these could be yours. So get the thing out of your head, make it 99 words or fewer, and send it to the North Coast […]
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Flash Fiction
99 Words on 99 Words We’ve been flashed. You, Humboldt, flashed us with your fiction, conjuring in just 99 words the key elements: character, setting, conflict, plot and theme. Characters: We meet a hungry dragon, a tactless apostle, an inebriated orange glutton. Settings: We visit a Vegas motel, an island cemetery, the Arcata Co-op. Conflict: […]