This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction Anthology – Deadline: December 31, 2021, 11:59 PM
Brevity is the soul of wit, as William Shakespeare wrote in one of his longer plays, Hamlet. Flash Fiction, brief stories, have become one of the most exciting sub-genres of contemporary fiction. Canadian flash fiction has been under-represented in the nation's literature though many notable writers have practiced the art of the short short story in literary magazines and on many new and exciting blogs.
In This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, Guernica Editions is looking for short short stories by Canadian writers. Stories should be at at minimum six words in length to a maximum length of 500 words. We are looking for short stories from across the entire spectrum of Canadian writing. They should be short enough to read on a bumpy bus ride and rich enough to please the most serious fiction aficionado. The stories can be on anything from stark realism to science fiction.
The anthology is open to all Canadian writers, with LGBTQ2S writers, writers of colour, encouraged to submit flash stories for consideration. Tell your story, but tell it with precision.
In addition to the anthology, Guernica Editions is offering a $200 prize for the best flash fiction story selected for the anthology. The editor (Bruce Meyer) and the publisher (Michael Mirolla) are both practitioners of the flash fiction, and the volume will feature one or two stories by each of them in a special addendum to the anthology. Publication of the anthology is scheduled for 2022. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2021.
Submission: Submissions through Submittable. In each submission batch you may submit up to five stories with a fee of $10.00 for the first story; $5.00 for succeeding stories. Submit as often as you wish, but be aware that each new group of submitted stories will require another $10.00 initial submission fee for the first story and $5.00 per story thereafter per batch.