TENacity FUNDRAISER!

August 13, 2024 ~ Brilliant Flash Fiction

Brilliant Flash Fiction 10^th Anniversary Fundraiser

TENacity, our 10^th anniversary anthology, is now live on Amazon and Smashwords!

Print version: $12, available on AMAZON

eBook version: $7, available on SMASHWORDS

All royalties from book sales go toward paying operating costs of Brilliant Flash Fiction, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization. Please consider buying a copy.

This anthology celebrates the tenth anniversary of Brilliant Flash Fiction, a nonprofit organization dedicated to publishing quality flash fiction. All book royalties will go toward Brilliant Flash Fiction‘s continued operating costs.

Inside this book, you’ll find 42 flash fiction tales of tenacity, created by an international cast of writers. Each story is crafted in 300 words or less and follows the author’s imaginative journey into a world of persistent determination.

What is flash fiction? A story told in 1,000 words or less. The best short fiction leaves the reader with a “flash” of inspiration, revelation, and/or emotional response.

After a call for submissions that elicited 472 entries, Brilliant Flash Fiction editors chose 42 that they felt best express the sort of tenacity that enabled their organization to survive from 2014 to 2024.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

January 2, 2024January 4, 2024 ~ Brilliant Flash Fiction

10th Anniversary Anthology

Brilliant Flash Fiction celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2024 with an eBook and print anthology entitled TENacity. We are seeking flash fiction stories of 300 words or less on the subject of Tenacity. Writers do not have to use the word “tenacity” in their stories or titles; simply send us your best work expressing the concept of te·nac·i·ty:

the quality or fact of continuing to exist; persistence.”the tenacity of certain myths within the historical record”

Similar: persistence, determination, doggedness, single-mindedness, perseverance, stick-to-it-iveness, resolution, If someone calls you tenacious you’re probably the kind of person who never gives up and never stops trying – someone who does whatever is required to accomplish a goal.

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POP-UP WRITING CONTEST RESULTS

December 11, 2023 ~ Brilliant Flash Fiction

Many, many thanks to the 40 writers who donated at least $10 to participate in the Brilliant Flash Fiction pop-up writing contest. We received 27 entries and BFF editors chose four stories to appear in the January 31, 2024 issue.

The winning authors are Cath Barton, Roberta Beary, Helen Chambers, and Tricia Gates Brown.

Donations generated by this writing contest will support Brilliant Flash Fiction through its tenth year of operation in 2024.

Season Greetings to Readers and Writers everywhere!

POP-UP WRITING CONTEST

October 7, 2023 ~ Brilliant Flash Fiction

It’s FUNdraising time!

We are sponsoring an impromptu writing contest to celebrate our upcoming 10th Anniversary in 2024, and we want it to be challenging as well as fun. Donate at least $10 to Brilliant Flash Fiction, and you could win a slot for your story to be published in our January 31, 2024, issue.

Here’s how it works:

Step one: Go to our website (brilliantflashfiction.com) and click the Donate button on the right side of our Home page. Please give generously—but you must donate at least $10 to enter the contest. Every $10 donation earns you one chance to submit an entry. If you donate $20, you can submit 2 entries; $30 for 3 entries; and so on.

Step two: When we receive your donation, we will email you a story title. You will then write and submit a fiction story of 1,000 words or less that matches this story title. When you donate more than $10, you can submit more than one entry. The deadline for all contest entries is December 5, 2023. No poetry or essays. One entry per $10 donation.

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WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR FLASH?

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 ~ Brilliant Flash Fiction

Improve your flash and support Brilliant Flash Fiction

Tired of rejections? Finding that your writing has plateaued?

From August 1 – September 30, you can support Brilliant Flash Fiction and work with our editors to improve one piece of flash fiction.

The way it works:

Step One: Donate $50 on our Home Page brilliantflashfiction.com

Step Two: Submit your flash story (1,000 words or less) to bffflash@gmail.com

Step Three: You are assigned an editor and will receive a critique within 2 weeks. You’ll be able to respond to this feedback, ask for clarification, and discuss edits with her/him for a further revision.

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