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Micro Fiction Writing Competition S2 Round 2: Deadline extended!

Micro Fiction Writing Competition S2 Round 2: Deadline extended!

Jo Caddy

Hey awesome peeps. So um obviously I did not adequately promote this round of the competition. So far we have received a grand total of 6 entries, not even enough to fill a shortlist let alone provide fair competition. So once again I am extending the submission deadline for another 14 days, and promoting like mad, in the hopes of receiving many more entries. The new deadline will be November the 21st at Midnight AEST. It would be amazing if you could please, please, please spread the word and get more writers involved. It would really help to get this competition through to completion and offer the writers the healthy competition they deserve.

I understand that the $2 entry fee may put people off and whilst I’d love to keep the entry FREE, I’m not sure my bank account will thank me for it. The entry fee helps pay for the prize money, but what’s left has to come from my own pocket, which I’m more than willing to do as it’s a pleasure to hear such excitement from writers when their stories are chosen for a prize and publication. Your very helpful contribution, of a small entry fee, will help me to keep these competitions running and if we get enough from these ongoing competitions, we can eventually make them FREE.

See the original post for details on how to enter HERE

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Micro Fiction Writing Competition Winners: S2 Round 1

Jo Caddy

It’s finally that time you’ve all been waiting for. My apologies for how long it has taken to get this post out, I know you’ve all been waiting eagerly to find out who the winners of our 1st round of the second series of micro fiction writing competitions are. Life has been, for lack of a better word “stressful” of late and in the worst timing. It has been difficult but I revel in the knowledge that it will all become part of the grand Mum Life Story that I might just tell one day.

Thank you to everyone who entered our 1st round of series 2, of the Micro Fiction Writing Competition. As always, the entries were all amazing. Picking just 3 winners was an agonising task to say the least. I’d love to make everyone a winner but alas, it wouldn’t be a competition then, would it? Congratulations once again to all our shortlisted stories this month. If you missed the previous post containing the shortlist, you can find it HERE or just see the list below.

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Shortlist: Micro Fiction Writing Competition S2, Round 1

Jo Caddy

Can you believe we’ve already gotten through one round of the second series of micro fiction writing competitions? I can’t. Christmas is also approaching rapidly and a million things are racing through my mind in regards to kids, Christmas holidays and the blog. The busy season starts now but I really want to get through at least 2 more rounds before the year finishes, so next comp needs to have a tonne of entries in the first two weeks so we can avoid the extensions. So make sure you keep spreading the word when the next round starts so we can make this happen and get that second anthology out.

This round was extended but we got a great bunch of stories to go through and choose for our shortlist. Very proud of everyone who entered, it’s a shame we couldn’t pick you all for the anthology but there’s always next time. Congratulations to all our shortlisted stories, they will all appear in the anthology and all receive a free digital copy of the anthology when it is published.

Mum Life Stories Micro Fiction, Volume One

Round 1 Shortlist

Here are our 10 shortlisted stories in alphabetical order (please note the order has no bearing on placement):

  1. Earth Mother, ELIZABETH SMITH, Great Britain
  2. I Cannot, KRISTINA ANDERSON, Australia
  3. Listening In, LAURA TAPPER, Great Britain
  4. Suffer Little Children, GRACE G MORAN, Ireland
  5. The Alter, AUTUMN BETTINGER, United States
  6. The Hollow, DETTRA ROSE, Australia
  7. The Miracle, RHETT SMITH, Australia
  8. The Way Home, JULIE MEIER, Canada
  9. Undisclosed Desires, BROOKE DEBONO, Australia
  10. Where Things Grow, KRISTINA ANDERSON, Australia

Winners will be contacted shortly so keep an eye on your inbox if your name appears on our shortlist, and these winners will be announced within the next few days so stay tuned.

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Next Micro Fiction Round

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Micro Fiction Writing Competition S2 Round 1: Deadline extended!

Micro Fiction Writing Competition S2 Round 1: Deadline extended!

Jo Caddy

Unfortunately, although we have received some great submissions for our first round of series 2 of the MLS micro fiction writing competition, it’s not quite enough to justify a fair competition. So we are extending the submission deadline for another 14 days. The new deadline will be September 14th at Midnight AEST. If you can help spread the word, that would be amazing and would help to get this competition through to completion and offer the writers the healthy competition they deserve.

I understand that the $2 entry fee may put people off and whilst I’d love to keep the entry FREE, I’m not sure my bank account will thank me for it. The entry fee helps pay for the prize money, but what’s left has to come from my own pocket, which I’m more than willing to do as it’s a pleasure to hear such excitement from writers when their stories are chosen for a prize and publication. Your very helpful contribution, of a small entry fee, will help me to keep these competitions running and if we get enough from one competition, we can make the next one FREE.

See the original post for details on how to enter HERE

Micro Fiction Writing Competition, Series 2, Round 1

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Anthology Cover Art

Anthology Cover Art

Jo Caddy

Who’s excited for the release of our very first Mum Life Stories anthology? I know I am. If all goes well it could be released as early as January, but there is a lot of work to do till then.

I’ve began the process of compiling all the wonderful stories into a masterful book that not only reads inspiration but looks it as well. I’ve been creating the cover art and want to get your opinion, since many of you either have stories in the anthology or are looking forward to reading them all. 

Please take a look at the following 3 covers and let me know what you think of them and which one you’d like to see as the cover for our first anthology.

Cover Art #1

This cover is based on the Mum Life Stories website, the photo is the same photo that is on our front page and of course the title and slogan are the same. Just quietly, I think this one is my favourite.

Anthology cover draft 1

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Cover Art #2

This one is sweet but I wasn’t sure if people might mistake it as an anthology of stories about pregnancy.

Anthology cover draft 2

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Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction by Nancy Stohlman

Cover Art #3

I love the colours of this one. I’ve removed the slogan ‘Every Life Story Begins With A Mum’ but of course can include it or remove it from any of the covers.

Anthology cover draft 3

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Thoughts

Let me know in the comments section below if you have any thoughts on any of these covers, i.e. would you like to see the slogan on there, or not? Should I include the number of stories? Should I include my name as the editor or compiler, etc? It would be nice to have my name there but not at all necessary as I do not want to take anything away from all the very talented writers who’s stories made this anthology possible. The book will be available through Amazon and all writers names will be in the description as well as in the book of course. 

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Micro Fiction Writing Competition Winners: Round 6

Micro Fiction Writing Competition Winners: Round 6

Jo Caddy

Thank you to everyone who entered our 6th and final round of the Micro Fiction Writing Competition. As always, the entries this month were all outstanding. Picking just 3 winners was a an agonising task to say the least. I’d love to make everyone a winner but alas, it wouldn’t be a competition then, would it? Congratulations once again to all our shortlisted stories this month. If you missed the previous post containing the shortlist, you can find it HERE or just see the list below.

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