microfiction
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Late autumn in Melbourne. The nights have well and truly drawn in, and at the moment the sun sets close to 5.30pm. Last week I noticed the camellia tree had a number of new flower buds, after months of bareness, clusters of tightly packed pinkness which overnight blossomed into beautiful large flowers, petals the colour
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I just entered three stories into the Fundación César Egido Serrano Microfiction Contest. The deadline is midnight tonight (Spanish Peninsular time), so there’s still time to get your three (or fewer) stories in to the running. Each story can be no more than 100 words (not including an optional title). Stories may be written in
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Participating is already a prize from fundacioncesaregidoserrano.com/ It’s time to think microfiction again for the seventh edition of the César Egido Serrano Foundation’s international contest. This year’s slogan: “Dream, write and share.” Instead of the usual two stories, participants are able to submit up to three stories of no more than 100 words each. As
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The first prize went to ‘Fly’ by José Manuel Dorrego Sáenz, from Madrid, Spain. The winning story was written in Spanish, and its author wins $20,000. There were three second prizes of $2000 awarded to the highest-ranking entries in each of the other languages of the contest:‘Where Do You Think You’re Going?!’ is by Emilia
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