by Editor
on December 3, 2023
Our Nominations For 2023
We’ve just handed in our nominations to the Best Small Fictions competition for flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer) published during the current year. Best Small Fictions allows us to enter five stories in the contest, and here are the ones we’ve presented to them, in no particular order:
Beat The Devil, by Mona Susan Power
The Barnyard And the Graveyard, by Maureen McEly
Night Marcher, by Michael Kaukeano Sonray-Kelly
The Pickup, by Kathryn Pratt Russell
The Lair, by Brid Cummings
Meanwhile, we are now accepting submissions to our own flash fiction contest—The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition. The Deadline is January 31, and the winner and honorable mention will be published on Valentine’s Day. Complete guidelines are available here.
Cheers—The Editor
by Editor
on December 1, 2023
Our Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition
Got a short-short story—under 1,000 words—on a supernatural or magic realism theme that you’re ready to start submitting to publications? Or maybe you’ve got one rattling around in your brain that you’ve been thinking about committing to paper, or to a computer screen?
Well, our Winter contest for flash fiction—AKA sudden, or brief, or short-short fiction—is now open to submissions. If you’d like to have a look at our guidelines, you can access them here.
Happy holiday season — The Editor
by Editor
on November 27, 2023
Our Pushcart Prize Nominations For 2023
The Ghost Story has nominated six stories published here in 2023 for the prestigious Pushcart Prizes. We nominated winners/honorable mentions from The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award (full-length short stories) as well as winners/honorable mentions in The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition. In no particular order, here is our list, along with a link to each nominated piece:
The Cobbler’s Daughter, by Joseph Bathanti
Gina Of Golden Gardens, by Shala Erlich
Night Marcher, by Michael Kaukeano Sonray-Kelly
The Barnyard And The Graveyard, by Maureen McEly
Door To Door, by Ruth Schemmel
The Carny, by Ann O’Mara Heyward
Enjoy. — The Editor
BTW . . . The Winter 2024 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition opens to submissions on December 1.
by Editor
on October 30, 2023
Four Supernatural Reads For Fall
We received a record number of submissions in the Fall 2023 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition, and from those hundreds of stories, we selected a winner and three Honorable Mentions. These tales span an array of imaginative takes on the supernatural: We’ve got a good-looking golem, a family of athletic jinn, a smoldering grandfather ghost, and an alien seduction and abduction. And of course, we invite you have a look. As always, each story comes with a custom illustration by Andy Paciorek.
Enjoy. Our next contest will be the Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, which opens to submissions on December 1, with the winner and Honorable Mentions published on Valentine’s Day.
