– The Quarter One Flash Fiction Challenge is Open –

See below for details.

Are you up for a challenge?

Homer was able to write about the Trojan War in ten epic novels, The Iliad being one of them. He covered it all: religion, love, war, fantasy, myth, and horror. Now it’s your turn to carry on the tradition and create your own epic story; but there’s a catch… It must be done in 1,000 words or less. That’s roughly 2 pages, which is 3/1000 of the size of the entire Homeric collection!

All the entries will be reviewed blind (no author names are on the review copies) by a panel of reviewers and the very best will be selected for publication in the next Flash Fiction Challenge anthology. Multiple entries are allowed.

The Current Challenge: Thieves and Scoundrels

Would your characters try to swindle a dragon out of his treasure? Perhaps they’d try to steal the fastest spaceship in the galaxy? Or are they after something a little more sinister that’s in need of taking? Where ever and when ever they take place, the stories of these Thieves and Scoundrels will take hold of your imagination and ransom it back to you.

NOTE: all stories submitted to the Flash Fiction Challenge must fit within the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror.

The Schedule:

Submissions will be accepted up to midnight PST on the closing date of the challenge.

• Quarter One opens on December 1st  and closes on January 15 (for a late-February release).
• Quarter Two opens on March 1st and closes on April 15 (for a late-May release).
• Quarter Three opens on June 1st and closes on July 15 (for a late-August release).
• Quarter Four opens on September 1st and closes on October 15 (for a late-November release).

Link, and information on how to submit work, here: http://absolute-x-press.com/flash-fiction-challenge/