micro fiction writing contest

This is it! The final round of this series of micro fiction writing competitions. The last round before production begins on the second Mum Life Stories Anthology, and your final chance to be a part of this beautiful book.

I’m sad to say that this will probably be the last series of competitions I will be able to run, at least for a while. My family and business commitments have meant that I cannot spend the time that I need to on getting the competitions advertised and judged etc in reasonable time frames. I don’t know if I will be able to run them again in the future but I’m hopeful that I will.

So let’s make this last round the best one yet. Please help spread the word on social media etc, and tell all your writer friends so that we can finish this anthology with a bang!

Round 6 is themed ‘Empty Nest’, probably the most bitter sweet time in a mothers life, when all the hard work sees it’s reward in an independent child going off to live their own life but at the same time leaving a child-sized hole in our hearts that will never truly be filled again. It’s a new season, filled with new experiences and choices about our own lives that we didn’t have the option for, for so many years, but now we are not sure if we want. Confusing, yet exciting at the same time.

I’m really looking forward to reading all the submissions in a months time.

Submission opens at 12AM this Sunday morning AEST, the 16th of October and closes 4 weeks later on Sunday the 6th of November at midnight AEST.

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Well, we’re almost there. I can see the second ‘Mum Life Stories’ anthology on the horizon and it’s setting up to be as good, if not better than the first. Only 2 rounds of competitions to go and then production begins. Only 2 rounds to go for your chance to be a part of this beautiful book and have your story immortalised in its pages for ever and ever.

Okay so they may run out of copies eventually and they may all disintegrate and decompose back into the earth just like us, but I’m sure their words will resonate in the hearts of our children and our children’s children, etc, for ever and ever. Not only that but you’ll have bragging rights at every high school/college reunion and family gathering for the rest of your life. Nothing sounds quite as impressing as “my story was published in a book” (insert cocky smile and a dozen ‘oooh’s and ‘ahhhh’s).

If that’s not enough motivation to whip up a 500 word masterpiece then think of the cash! It’s not enough to buy your own island and retire to write 100 trashy novels, but you could get a decent celebratory dinner or luxury pedicure, depending on your exchange rate of course.

Round 5 is themed ‘Adolescence’, probably the most exciting of all 6 rounds I think, as there’s bound to be a hundred and one stories from each writers on teenage journey, that they can draw inspiration from. They are the most termultuous years of our lives after all. I’m really looking forward to reading all the submissions in a months time.

Submission opens at 12AM this Sunday morning AEST, the 26th of June and closes 4 weeks later on Sunday the 24th of July at midnight AEST.

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Well, we’ve reached the half-way mark for this season of Micro Fiction Writing Competition’s. Things are ramping up toward the second anthology. Who’s excited? I know I am. We’ve got 30 awesome micro fiction stories ready to be published, we’ll have 10 more by the end of this round and then there is only 20 more to go. Could your story be one of them?

The new round opens for submission Sunday the 27th of March 2022 and the submission time period is once again 4 weeks, so there is plenty of time to get your submissions in.

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