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
2021 Winners
- First Prize: Katharyn Howd Machan of Ithica, NY
“Rap Song” - Second Prize: Patricia Schultheis of Baltimore, MD
“This Thing With Sticks” - Third Prize: Andrea Hansell of Rockville, MD
“Into The Lake”
2021 Honorable Mentions
Shane Harrison of Las Cruces, NM for “Graffiti Angel”
Melissa Chin of San Francisco, CA for “Happy Hour”
Patty Campbell of Locust Hill, VA for “The Groundbreaking Career of Sally Belle Price”
Shane Harrison of Las Cruces, NM for “The Portal”
Louise Kantro of Modesto, CA for “Teamwork”
Robin Michel of San Francisco, CA for “Boat Safety”
Marcia Peck of Minnetonka, MN for “The Singer”