Introducing Net Author's Third Annual Flash Fiction Contest! Regardless of whether flash fiction is your area of specialty, your secret passion, or you've never even tried your hand at the genre, now is the time to polish it up and send it in. We're accepting submissions through July 15; winners will be announced in the August issue of Net Author's E2K, and will be published in the August, September, October, November issues of Net Author's E2K. Interested? Read on!

Title: Net Author's Annual Flash Fiction Contest
Contact: editor@netauthor.org (do not send your submissions to this address!)

The contest begins April 15, 2002 and runs through July 15, 2003.

1st Prize: $100
2nd Prize: $50
3rd and 4th Prizes: $25

Contest Rules:

• Stories must be 1,000 words or less.
• One entry per person.
• Every entry must have a title.
• Entry must have a word count.
• Entry must include a short, third-person bio.
• Entry must include the necessary contact information: writer's name, postal address, and email address.
• You'll find the link for the submission form on the index page of the April, May, and June issues of E2K. <http://netauthor.org/e2k>
• Deadline: July 15, 2003
• There should be no personal identifying information within the text of the submission! Any submissions that violate that policy will be automatically deleted as they cross the transom.

Net Author's Flash Fiction Contest uses a blind review process.

Winners will be announced in the August 15, 2003 issue of E2K.

Not sure what flash fiction is all about? You may want to check out Pam Casto's excellent article in the January 2002 issue of E2K: "Flash Fiction: The Short-Short To Ultra-Short Story" <http://netauthor.org/e2k/jan2002/features.html1>