Everybody Hates a Critic: 250 Word Flash Fiction Contest
Terry Griggs’s new comic-noir biblio-mystery Thought You Were Dead begins with a literary critic found under a hedge with a knife in his head. Literary revenge is the culprit. The literary world, especially the Canadian literary world, can be a small, spiteful – and occasionally murderous – place. Character assassinations abound, books are regularly murdered in the (shrinking) book pages across our fair land, while others are smothered with damningly faint praise.
Do you bear the scars of CanLit’s internecine wars? Have you spent a small fortune on postage with only a drawerful of rejection slips to show for it? Has the world been slow to recognize your talent? Then, dear reader, this contest is for you.
To celebrate the launch of Terry Griggs’s new novel, Biblioasis and Seen Reading are teaming up to help you unleash the murder we know is in your heart, with a Revenge-Lit contest. Pen a flash fiction of 250 words or so (though, in truth, no one is likely to count them) on the (fictional) literary critic whose body once filled the chalk outline, and what he did to get there, and send it by June 12th to revengelit@gmail.com. The best of the entries will be published as they are received at RevengeLit.blogspot.com. The winning entry will:
1) Receive a one hundred dollar cash prize
2) Be published in a forthcoming issue of CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries
3) A Biblioasis press catalogue of in-print trade titles (approx. 40 books, retail value approx. $1000.00)
Entries to be judged by Dan Wells, Julie Wilson and Terry Griggs.