07 Nov 2017
by Ritu
in Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cash Prize, Writing competition
There is a new Flash Fiction competition…a V International one… run by
Fundación César Egido Serrano
- The 5th Edition of the International Prize for Micro-Stories is organized by the César Egido Serrano Foundation.
- Writers from anywhere in the world may participate.
- Originals whose theme will be free (two per author, maximum) will be written in any of the following languages: Spanish, English, Arabic or Hebrew.
- An overall first prize of 20,000 dollars is awarded for the best story in any of the languages authorized in the contest.
- Three prizes of $ 1,000 each will be awarded for the best stories in each of the other remaining languages admitted in the contest, that are not winners of the main prize.
- The stories cannot exceed 100 words. They will be sent exclusively by completing the online form that will be found on the website of the Foundation: http://www.fundacioncesaregidoserrano.com The texts will be original, unpublished in all media (paper, blogs, electronic publications, etc…) and must not been awarded prizes in any other contest. Those who do not meet this condition will be disqualified.
- The deadline for submission of originals will end at 24h (Spanish peninsular time) of the International Day of the Word as a Bond of Humankind (motto of the Foundation), on November 23rd, 2017.
- The jury will make a selection of the finalists it deems appropriate. The list of finalist titles will be published on the website of the César Egido Serrano Foundation.
- The César Egido Serrano Foundation reserves the right to publish the finalist stories.
- The decision of the jury will be final.
- The registration in this contest is an agreement in the total acceptance of its rules.
- Texts that do not comply with any of the rules will be disqualified.
Please click below for the participation form!
And if you do, use this code – 49224 – at the bottom of the form!
via Participation form
07 Nov 2017
by Ritu
in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, #MicroPoetry, Autumn & Leaves, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Colleen Chesebro, Synonyms, tanka
Colleen’s alternative poetry challenge NaNoWriMo is running: giving us a pair of words and for us to then use not them, but synonyms in our poems!
This weeks words to switch are~:
Image from Pixabay
I used Indian summer, and fall for autumn and farewell and foliage for leaves, within a tanka.
Indian summer
I bid you a fond farewell
For winter is here
The gold foliage of fall
Gives way to cold, bare winter
Ritu 2017
02 Nov 2017
by Ritu
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #WritePhoto, Barbie and Ken, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Canoe, Eye, Fantasies, Fiction, Haiku, Photo Prompt, Sue Vincent
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
I thought I’d continue the adventures of Barbie and Ken!
The boat rocked.
“Babe! My clothes are getting wet! Can you stop that stupid splashing?!” Barbie let out a huge sigh.
Ken tried to wipe the beads of sweat from his forehead with the cloth his tee-shirt covering his shoulder. ” I’m trying, babe, but I gotta move this thing somehow!” He continued to row along the quiet stretch of river.
She sighed again. “And anyway, this isn’t a yacht! I was expecting a holiday on the French Riviera, with me laying on the deck of a huge boat, sunning myself as waiters brought me champagne on tap…”
“Hold on babe, you said you wanted to sun yourself on a boat, with bubbles, go swimming in the warm water – Look, the sun is out, we’re on a boat, well, in a canoe, and I got you a mini bottle of your favourite Prosecco!”
Ken looked ahead and noticed a low bridge they were approaching. “Duck!”
He bent down so they could glide under, just as Barbie sat up to look around. “Where?”
Thump – Splash!
“Babe! For God’s sake get me out of this yucky water, instead of sitting there watching me!” Barbie flailed around in the water, her head covered in weeds from the river.
“Oh! Sorry babe!” Ken leaned forward and reached an oar to her. ” I thought you’d gone for a swim… You did say you wanted to go swimming…”
02 Nov 2017
by Ritu
in #CarrotRanch, Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #CarrotRanch, 99-Word Fiction, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Chair, Charli Mills, Flash Fiction
I’m taking a chance on one of Charli’s 99-word prompts over at The Carrot Ranch!
November 2, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story a chair on a porch. Why is it there, and what might it mean? Think about using it as a prop or the main thrust of your story.
Hope this is ok!
Nanna would always be sat there in her chair on the porch.
I would spend hours with her, sat at her feet as a child, playing with my dolls, or reading a book. Sometimes she’d read me a story.
As I got older, she was still there, my sounding board, always giving me sage, simple advice for any problems I was facing.
Today I really need her. It’s a big step I’m about to take. I only wish she was still here…
Looking over, the empty rocking chair slowly creaks, as if encouraging me.
See, she is still here.
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