Mary Kennedy Eastham Flash Fiction Prize Category
First Prize: $100
Second Prize: $50
Third Prize: $25
Category Details
Please send me one story of your best work, 1,000 words or less (not including title), double-spaced, no name on manuscript. Flash fiction combines the prism of the poem with the just slight indulgence of the short story. Surprise me. Scare me, better yet, write about something that scares you. My third book is a collection of Flash Fiction workshopped with Flash writers Kathy Fish, Sara Lippmann, and Tommy Dean. ‘A Child’s Night’ from that collection was a recent winner in the Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Contest. Some great Flash Fiction resources: SmokeLong Quarterly, Bending Genres & The Best Small Fictions.
About Judge/Sponsor
MARY KENNEDY EASTHAM (San Jose, CA) M.A., MFA (Almost an MBA!) is the author of The Shadow of a Dog I Can’t Forget: Poems & Prose now in its fifth Printing. Her second book, Squinting Over Water: Stories was a 2019 Wild Card Winner in the Florida Book Festival. She has received grants from Silicon Valley Creates, the Allen Ginsberg Award, The Chekhov Award and a $5,000 award from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation.
Judge’s Websites
Last Year’s (2019) Winners
- First Prize: Darci Glass-Royal of Darnestown, MD
“Afterimage” - Second Prize: Katrina Monet of San Francisco, CA
“Cross Beams” - Third Prize: Elaine Thomas of Wilmington, NC
“Garden Genesis”
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)
Jacqueline Doyle of Castro Valley, CA
“Free Fall” and “After Dinner”
Cecile Earle of Berkeley, CA
“Climb Forever”
Darci Glass-Royal of Darnestown, MD
“Down By the Water”
Robin Michel of San Francisco, CA
“The Burning Giraffe” and “I Thought it Safe”;