by Editor
on December 1, 2021
Ghost Train. Photo: Jesse Draper
Now Accepting Submissions: The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition
What? Our biannual contest for sudden short stories incorporating a supernatural theme or element.
When? NOW.
Deadline: January 31.
Judge: Tara Lynn Masih, author of the novel, My Real Name Is Hannah, and editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction.
Length Limits: 250-1,000 words.
Cash Awards: $1,000 for the winner, $200 for each of two honorable mentions. Print and online publication for all three.
Recent Media Coverage of our competitions and publications: Here are some links.
Complete Guidelines and link to our electronic submissions system: Right HERE!
by Editor
on November 22, 2021
Tara Lynn Masih
Our Winter 2022 Screw Turn Flash Fiction competition opens to submissions on December 1—and we’re delighted to have award-winning novelist, flash-fiction crafter, flash-fiction teacher, and anthology editor Tara Lynn Masih on hand to choose our winner and two honorable mentions.
Tara is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of a Julia Ward Howe Award for her debut novel, My Real Name Is Hanna. Her anthologies include the acclaimed Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction. In addition to other collections, her flash has been anthologized in Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose, Flash Fiction Funny, and W. W. Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, and was featured in Fiction Writer’s Review for National Short Story Month.
Awards for her work include the Lou P. Bunce Creative Writing Award, The Ledge Magazine‘s Fiction Award, Wigleaf Top 50 recognition (judged by Roxane Gay), a finalist fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Pushcart Prize nominations. She has taught flash fiction workshops around the country, and is Founding Series Editor of The Best Small Fictions and a Founding Donor to the Harry Ransom Center’s Flash Fiction Library in Texas.
Her second story collection, How We Disappear, is forthcoming from Press 53 and Blackstone Audio in September 2022. www.taramasih.com
Welcome Tara! It’s going to be fun working with you.
by Editor
on November 10, 2021
TV, Newspapers, YouTube . . . TGS Has Been Getting Around
You likely have already seen the Boston Globe review of 21st Century Ghost Stories—Volume II, the latest addition to our ongoing print anthology series. The Globe‘s take on the stories that are winners or honorable mentions in our competitions:
“[S]trange and smart and upends ideas of what a ghost story is, and expands, with verve and unsettling bizarrity, what it can be.“
And we’ve recently received some other attention as well.
There’s a television interview
There’s a newspaper feature article about us in the Maine Sunday Telegram.
In addition, for your listening pleasure, two of our stories have been narrated and uploaded to YouTube from the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast:
The Beast of Blanchland, by Rowan Bowman
and
Snake in the Attic, by Garret Johnson
Both are read—in his natural British accent, no less—by Tony Walker. Enjoy!
by Editor
on October 31, 2021
Our Short Story Competition Winners Feature The Ghost Of A Notorious Murderer, A Shape-Shifting Grandma, Phone Calls From The Dead, And A Slavic Nightmare
We’ve selected four fine short stories as the winner and three honorable mentions in the Fall 2021 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition. Accompanied by original illustrations from artist Andy Paciorek, all are now available for your reading pleasure right here.
These four pieces will be included in Volume III of our ongoing print anthology series, 21st Century Ghost Stories. Volume III is due out from Wyrd Harvest Press (Durham, U.K.) in 2024. Meanwhile, don’t forget to get yourself a copy of Volume II, which was just published in August. All profits from the sale of our books are donated to the Wildlife Trusts, a British wildlife conservation organization. Cheers.
