Craft Some New Flash — Or Dust Off an Old Draft
The 2023 Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest closes Wednesday, February 15th. Send us your previously unpublished short fiction (up to 750 words) by the deadline, for your chance at the sweet top prize: $300 and publication in Issue 39, Summer 2023.
For all the details and to enter, visit the contest page.
For some inspiration, here’s a look at the opening lines of the 2021 and 2022 winners:
‘Blind Maggie’ by Alan Sincic
The other hand — hammer hand — she folded into a fist. Held it. Trembled it there. There, she said. Take that. She made as if to thump the graven surface of the tray. The biscotti cowered. The fly buzzed, landed, buzzed again. She closed her eyes, tipped into the wind, listened for the fly to land. You don’t mess, no, you don’t mess with Maggie.
Read on in Issue 31, Summer 2021.
‘Whispers in Between My Shoulder Blades’ by Christine Breede
I have a friend who says, I have morals, I don’t do this or that, and then she does, like when she wears her ring in every photograph, letting it shine, letting it weigh, until she takes it off for a couple of hours or doesn’t, a minor detail at that point …
Read on in Issue 35, Summer 2022.
For your chance at the top prize, and to appear in the pages of Pulp, send us your stories by February 15th. Enter today!
Contest judge Bob Thurber is the author of the novel Paperboy, a grand master of flash, and the winner of numerous awards. His fifty-word (!) story ‘Before She Was My Mother’ is included in the Best Microfiction 2022 anthology and you can read it here.
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