After nearly two months of submissions and over a month of wonderful short (short short) stories, Nanoism is having its first-ever contest.
Despite all of the excellent entries and buzz surrounding Robert Swartwood’s “Hint Fiction” Contest, I am certain much more nanofiction has been and needs to be written. But there is one small difference between the nanofiction we publish and other types of micro and hint fiction: we don’t use words here, we use characters—140 of them, to be exact.
What: Nanofiction up to 140 characters, including spaces. Every contest submission will be considered for publication in Nanoism. Reprints are fine, as always, just say so in the submission.
How: Submit up to five (5!) pieces in the body of an email with your bio (see submission guidelines). The email subject should be “Nanoism Contest Submission.” Send your entry to editor [at] nanoism [dot] net. The contest runs for three weeks from May 14 until Friday June 5 at 11:59pm.
Prizes (paid via paypal):
- 1st: $20 and publication
- 2nd: $10 and publication
- 3rd: $5 and publication
I’m looking to be blown away by the number and quality of the entries. Share this on twitter, your blog, anywhere. Get the word out—I know nanofiction brings smiles to a lot of faces. If you’re on Twitter, follow @Nanoism for some excellent bits of fiction that you can read in a matter of seconds.
1. Kaolin Fire
26/05/2009 10:01 pmIs it ok to submit to nanoism 1/week as well as the contest?
2. Nano
26/05/2009 10:41 pmAbsolutely–in fact, I encourage it. I remembered to mention that on the @nanoed twitter account (but not here). I’m also extending the contest by a week to make sure interested parties don’t miss out.
3. Kaolin Fire
26/05/2009 11:27 pmThanks! Just caught it over on @nanoed
4. Nanoism, neologism, and nothingelsism « The Travel Hopefully Slog
27/05/2009 01:59 pm[...] 27 May 2009 Just put in five twitfix, microstories, short-shorts, call them what you will, to the Nanoism Nanofiction Contest. That must make them nanostories, come to think of it. Nanoism have extended the deadline until 5 [...]
5. mmSeason
04/06/2009 05:17 amAny (rough) idea when you will announce the winners? Btw that pingback was me. ;0)
6. Nano
05/06/2009 02:25 pmMy tentative plan is to announce the winners sometime this coming week and publish the entries the week after (June 15, 17, and 19). It’ll depend in part, of course, on how excruciating it is for me to pick the winners.
7. mmSeason
06/06/2009 08:54 amThanx – and i’m glad it won’t be too many days to wait.
8. 34 | Nanoism
22/06/2009 07:23 pm[...] story placed third in our Nanoism Nanofiction Contest. Leave a Comment Name: [...]
9. 35 | Nanoism
24/06/2009 02:23 pm[...] story placed second in our Nanoism Nanofiction Contest. Leave a Comment Name: [...]
10. 36 | Nanoism
26/06/2009 02:07 pm[...] was the winning entry in Nanoism’s Nanofiction Contest. Leave a Comment Name: [...]
11. Charles P. Schaeffer
16/09/2009 02:41 pmContest Editors: Would you please tell me the status of the NANO Fiction contest, having a deadline of August 1, 2009, and a 300 word limit? I made a note that your results would be reported in August. Thank you.
Charles Schaeffer
12. Nano
16/09/2009 03:32 pmNo can do. You have the wrong contest.
This is Nanoism, not Nano Fiction. Their version of nano is also substantially longer, for what it’s worth.