Click over to the contest home page to watch a video in which I talk about the winners and to download a .pdf of the winning entries!
Week 1 was:
Through Mysterious Doors
This week, we entered the world of microfiction with stories of up to 333 words that involved portals into other realms. Our writers took a character through some kind of gateway or past some threshold into a secondary world unlike our own.
POPULAR RUNNER-UP:
Eugene Sullivan, “The Stairwell”
POPULAR WINNER (tied):
Brenton Dickieson, “One Step Into Dawn”
POPULAR WINNER (tied):
Olivia Jakobitz, “Through the Porthole”
LITERARY WINNER Second Runner-Up:
Cheryl Cardoza, “Fairy Rings”
LITERARY WINNER First Runner-Up:
Anne Whitver, “Never Trust a Clock”
LITERARY PRIZE WINNER:
Laura Crouse, “Lot’s Wife”
Here are links to some other works that didn’t win, but you might enjoy reading them:
http://oliviasletters.blogspot.com/2015/10/microfiction.html
https://www.academia.edu/16457825/Tales_from_Underground_Gambit
http://alasnotme.blogspot.com/2015/10/by-waters-of-avalon.html
http://oliviasletters.blogspot.com/2015/10/magical-portals-and-whatnot.html
The Oddest Inkling 
Congratulations! (I’m glad I didn’t have to be a real judge – I’d probably be brooding for ages, all I read (I didn’t manage all 62 – if that was the final count) being so enjoyable in their strikingly different ways!
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“It’s a race! It’s a race! I’m weeing! I’m weening!”
Well, it isn’t a race, but I’m pleased to say that I’m one of those that were picked by popular vote in the “Almost an Inkling Writing Contest!” New prompt is up this week; the hint is “a One Minute Mystery.” You should check it out!
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I love this contest! I’m a notoriously slow writer, but I tend to do better under the panic of a near deadline, clear rules, and an attractive company of writers and readers to share with. I’m so glad you liked “Mud,” and even moreso that you honored my good friend Anne’s story about not trusting clocks. As soon as I read her entry I sent her an email raving about how I loved it. I haven’t read many of this week’s submissions yet, but I expect another excellent batch of treats for the imagination.
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Thanks so much! And thanks for posting your story on your blog. I’ve linked to it. Keep the submissions coming! “Minute Mysteries” this week.
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Check out the “Almost an Inkling” Flash Fiction Contest, Week 1:
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thank you much. the event is fun! i’m tickled to read entries…haven’t time to read all: you are a wonder! a great abundance for mythgard, hopeful. on the question of licensing, i wondered what winners can do with entries afterward.
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Winners will be published in a volume by Oloris Press!!
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i know you are busy. i apologize. how long will they hold rights?
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We do not hold the rights. Winners give us permission (in perpetuity) to publish their work in our e-book and use it in other ways we may want on our university website, etc. — but that does not prevent them from putting their works into their own books that they may publish, etc.
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Thanks for encouraging the ‘second chances’ to (re)read!
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More haste, less speed… Just hastily mucked up Week 4 submission – according to specifications on main page, but then noticed more elaborate and very different specifications on submission-form-page. What’s up? Which ones apply? The submission-form-page ones? If so, how do we count the days with respect to the dates?
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The prompt on the main page is correct; I have fixed the other. Apologies!
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Great – thank you!
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