Month: January 2021

I've been behind in sending this out, but about 2 weeks ago, the final results were released for the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction 2020 competition.

I didn't make it into one of the top spots.

There's some obvious disappointment, but I'm still proud to have been in a group of 75 down from 4,100+.  The judges provided some really great feedback and seemed like overall the story did well, but I also imagine that all of the final group stories were very well written.

I'll try to add the judges feedback and some details to the NYC section of my site.  I've been lax on building that up over the past year.

The same week I got the results of the finals for Flash, I also received the results for the first round of the 250-word Microfiction competition.  I don't know why but I can't seem to break the secret for the 100/250 competitions and advance further.  This one got an honorable mention which is great, but like I said, it wasn't enough to advance to the next round.

The prompts for the 250-word piece were Sci-Fi (genre) / Fixing a leak (action) / Heavy (word).  I felt pretty good about the piece, but it didn't quite make the cut.  The judges feedback was reasonably positive, but I'm always perplexed when they ask for things like more back-story in a piece of microfiction.  Perhaps that's just an indication that the story doesn't work quite as well without more exposition.

In any event, getting two different near misses in the same week is rough.  2021 is starting off slow.  Going to have to buckle down and try harder!