Summer in a Flash
Inspire your Summer with our yearly Flash Fiction contest!
Each summer month, guild members receive a prompt. Participants have five days to complete a piece of writing based on the prompt.
CCMWG members read submissions and choose 3 ranked winners. The monthly Flash Fiction Coordinator tallies up the selections and reports the winners!
Winning entries get published!
1st, 2nd and 3rd place winning entries get published in CCMWG’s Well Versed annual publication.
Summer Flash Fiction
Rules
Please read the rules carefully before submitting your entry.
1. Author
Entries must be the work of the entrant.
2. Publication Status to Qualify
Entries must not have been published or accepted for publication elsewhere in print or online, including blogs or personal websites.
If the author’s work is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify the Flash Fiction Coordinator immediately.
3. Copyright
Worldwide copyright of each entry remains with the author; however, the winners of the first, second, and third place prizes grant CCMWG:
- non-exclusive rights to their entry, including the right to submit the entry to the CCMWG membership for voting and on the CCMWG orWell Versed website and the right to include the entry in an anthology.
- the right to publish their entry before anyone else in print or online;
- the right to include their entry in the CCMWG anthology,Well Versed.
- permission to issue the name of the author of each submission, after the winners have been announced.
If the entry does not win the Flash Fiction contest and is not published in Well Versed, All rights revert back to the entrant.
4. Auto “Well Versed” enrollment
All winning entries are eligible for publication in Well Versed as finalists in the Well Versed Flash Fiction contest.
Obvious spelling and punctuation errors will be corrected before publishing in Well Versed. Any significant edits will be made in consultation with the author.
If an author decides to withdraw their Flash Fiction entry from Well Versed, they need to do so in writing before December 31st. The entry will also be withdrawn from the Well Versed publication.
4. One Entry Per Prompt
One entry per Flash Fiction photo prompt by each participant.
5. Submission Location & Deadline
Entries must be received before midnight (CST) of the closing date. Entries should be made online.
6. Submission Filename
The filename of an entry should be the same as the title. The first five words of the entry may be used as the title and filename.
CCMWG reserves the right to change any of the above at any time.
SUBMISSION OF ENTRY CONFIRMS ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES
Failure to comply with the rules may result in disqualification.
Writer Wisdom
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good.”
― William Faulkner