Flash Me Magazine
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Flash Me Magazine is one of the longest running online magazines devoted to publishing flash fiction
stories. It is a quarterly publication by Winged Halo Productions. It is a paying market, accepting all genres of fiction
under 1,000 words. It is also one of the few markets that offer editorial feedback with rejection letters. Issues are published on January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31.
Throughout its history, Flash Me Magazine has supported and promoted the art of flash fiction writing with its Lightning Flash Fiction Contests, its Flash For BIG Cash Anthologies, and now with its Flash Fiction Boot Camp series. All proceeds raised from these projects help fund the magazine. The editors of Flash Me Magazine believe flash fiction author
s aren't recognized often enough, and choose to showcase one author each quarter as its Feature Story. They also annually nominate authors for the Pushcart Prize.
In addition to the main website, Flash Me Magazine can be found on Facebook and MySpace. Its official blog, The Slush Pile, offers updates on incoming submissions and other news. Flash Me Magazine can be found in various market listings, most notably in Duotrope and Ralan.com. It is a member of the Speculative Literature Foundation Small Press Co-operative.
These include:
Flash fiction
Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...
stories. It is a quarterly publication by Winged Halo Productions. It is a paying market, accepting all genres of fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
under 1,000 words. It is also one of the few markets that offer editorial feedback with rejection letters. Issues are published on January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31.
Throughout its history, Flash Me Magazine has supported and promoted the art of flash fiction writing with its Lightning Flash Fiction Contests, its Flash For BIG Cash Anthologies, and now with its Flash Fiction Boot Camp series. All proceeds raised from these projects help fund the magazine. The editors of Flash Me Magazine believe flash fiction author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
s aren't recognized often enough, and choose to showcase one author each quarter as its Feature Story. They also annually nominate authors for the Pushcart Prize.
In addition to the main website, Flash Me Magazine can be found on Facebook and MySpace. Its official blog, The Slush Pile, offers updates on incoming submissions and other news. Flash Me Magazine can be found in various market listings, most notably in Duotrope and Ralan.com. It is a member of the Speculative Literature Foundation Small Press Co-operative.
Authors
A complete list of all the authors published in Flash Me Magazine can be found in their archives.These include:
- Ilona AndrewsIlona AndrewsIlona Andrews is the pen name used by urban fantasy novelist Ilona Gordon with her spouse Andrew Gordon, also known as Gordon.Ilona was born in Russia and came to the United States as a teenager. She attended Western Carolina University, where she majored in biochemistry and met her husband...
(published in Flash Me Magazine as Andrew & Ilona Gordon) - Michael ArnzenMichael ArnzenMichael A. Arnzen is a horror author and writer of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Grave Markings . He won his second Bram Stoker Award for his newsletter and his third for his poetry collection, Freakcidents....
- Bruce BostonBruce BostonBruce Boston is an American speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, 1965, and an M.A., 1967...
- John BushoreJohn BushoreJohn Bushore is a novelist and short story writer of speculative fiction and has also published poetry. A three-time winner of the James B. Baker Award , his stories and poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies...
- Elaine CunninghamElaine CunninghamElaine Cunningham is an American fantasy and science fiction author, especially known for her contributions to the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game campaign setting of Forgotten Realms, including the realms of Evermeet, Halruaa, Ruathym and Waterdeep.-Biography:Elaine Cunningham grew up in New...
- Bruce Holland RogersBruce Holland RogersBruce Holland Rogers is an American author of short fiction who also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, the Micro Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and...
- Marge SimonMarge SimonMarge Simon is an American artist and a writer of speculative poetry and fiction. Her poems, short fiction, and illustrations have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Amazing Stories, Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, The Pedestal Magazine, Chizine, Niteblade, Vestal Review, and Dark...
- Steven UtleySteven UtleySteven Utley is an American writer. He has written poems, humorous essays and other non-fiction, and worked on comic books and cartoons, but is best known for his science fiction stories.-Biography:...