2 Genres, 6 Rounds, 2 Weeks to Scribble.
See competition page – must be a site member to enter.
Archive for July, 2010
Final few days.
Poetry and Fiction.
Age categories – 8-11, 12-15, 16+
One entry per category per person.
See competition page for more details.
The prompt is released here, on the What’s New blogroll at 12pm Monday. Members then have until 23.59pm Wednesday to post their completed story to the relevant thread in the forum (60 hours to write and submit your story).
From midnight Thursday all board members can then comment on the entries – if 2 or more entries are added a poll will be created for voting.
If members want to remain anonymous please PM your entry, on the forums, to kirstyes.
The winning entry will be eligible for publication in the Slingink magazine and the winner will be announced here.
The prompt this week is: write a story inspired by the following picture:
The prompt is released here, on the What’s New blogroll at 12pm Monday. Members then have until 23.59pm Wednesday to post their completed story to the relevant thread in the forum (60 hours to write and submit your story).
From midnight Thursday all board members can then comment on the entries – if 2 or more entries are added a poll will be created for voting.
If members want to remain anonymous please PM your entry, on the forums, to kirstyes.
The winning entry will be eligible for publication in the Slingink magazine and the winner will be announced here.
The prompt this week is: write a story inspired by the following picture:
Frantic Fiction Winner 7th June
Apologies for the delay in announcing this.
The winner of the 7th of June Frantic was Mattspop with his story ‘Ambushed’.
Congratulations – the story will be added to the forum library.
Change to Frantic Fiction
Jul 17
From Monday Frantic Fiction will now be released at 12pm – closing day/time still Wed 23.59pm.
Winning stories will now be eligible to be published in the Slingink Magazine.
See you at noon on Monday.
Submissions will now be accepted up until 31st July.
See link below for more guidance.
Dorrie’s Member’s Poetry Challenge for July theme is:
Encounters with the ‘unreal’
It can be ghosts, spaceships, spirituality, bigfoot… anything you like – serious, funny, thought-provoking or just round the bend.
See the forums for details – Personal Message Dorrie with your poem by Sunday.
The prompt is released here, on the What’s New blogroll at 4pm Monday. Members then have until 11.59pm Wednesday to post their completed story to the relevant thread in the forum
From midnight Thursday all board members can then comment on the entries – if 2 or more entries are added a poll will be created for voting.
If members want to remain anonymous please PM your entry to kirstyes.
The prompt this week is: Write a story with an Italian setting.
Slingink Shorts 2010 – Winners
Who cares about the World Cup winners when it is time to announce the winners of Slingink Shorts 2010.
Our judge this year Hywela Lyn had a tough decision to make but she chose the following three prize winners and picked her top ten stories (finding it difficult to limit herself to just ten). Congratulations to the winners and to everyone that entered.
1st Nina Simon with Anti-clockwise (winning £50, publication on Slingink and a free copy of the anthology which will be named after her winning entry)
2nd Sharon Birch with Groundsman (winning £20, publication on Slingink and a free copy of the anthology)
3rd Caroline Palmer with Dragon (winning £10, publication on Slingink and a free copy of the anthology)
Highly Commended
4th Ann Oxley with Harness
5th Catherine Donald with Gossip
6th K.S. Dearsley with Sloth
7th Maggs Payne with Senses
8th Kerrie Myers with Seeing
9th Sharon Birch with Gemini
10th Wendy Greenberg with Alan
To read the winning stories check out our Winner’s Library.
Further information about the competition anthology ‘Anti-clockwise’ to follow shortly. Due to the quality of entries it will contain all 55 stories entered and the judging report.
Thanks to all those who entered, please come back next year for Slingink Shorts 2011.