Time is running out to enter the mystery flash fiction contest. Prizes include a short story collection by Raymond Chandler.
All you have to do is write a mystery story of 200 words or less, then submit it to author/blogger Vanessa Shields.
Deadline is this Friday, Sept. 20, at 11:59 p.m.
Vanessa Shields, blogging from Ontario, Canada, is sponsoring a mystery flash fiction contest that starts now!
Do you have an idea for a short-short mystery? Maybe you’ve written a few already. Send one in! This contest features literary prizes–including a Raymond Chandler book–but you only have two days to enter. The contest closes, appropriately: Friday, 13th of September.
Stories are limited to 200 words or less. Shields and I will be the judges and winners will be announced two weeks after the contest closes. There’s no fee to enter.
For all contest rules and to enter, go to: Vanessa Shield’s blog
Hit Man, a collection of crime short stories by Lawrence Block, will be reviewed next time.
A quiz in the Jan. 16 post asked you to match the fictional detective with his or her author. Here are the answers:
1. Philip Marlowe b. Raymond Chandler
2. Kinsey Millhone d. Sue Grafton
3. Auguste Dupin a. Edgar Allen Poe
4. Jackson Brodie d. Kate Atkinson
5. Sgt. Jim Chee d. Tony Hillerman
Nostalgia City Mysteries 