6th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest

It's kind of ironic that a short short story competition should have such a long name. I've been meaning to post about the 6th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest for some time but abandoned the idea because the Nov 1st deadline was approaching faster than my procrastinating arse was moving. But today I found out that they EXTENDED the deadline to January 15th and so I've finally got around to posting about this great little contest.

The 6th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest is accepting entries of up to 500 words written on a postcard to which it somehow relates. For full details about prizes, how to submit and to read past winners, go to their competition page.

Now I'm embarassed that it took me, like two months to post this. Sigh.

Rumble Magazine

I stumbled across Rumble (might be a poet yet)recently while cruising around the Internet procrastinating from my list of 50,000 other things to do. I can assure you that reading this online magazine is far preferable to the housework, work or sweeping up on fall leaves and if you haven't been there you should go to http://rumble.sy2.com/ and check them out.

Established in 2004, Rumble is an online publisher of micro-fiction, featuring short stories and poetry of 500 words or less. They started publishing monthly and now publish 'occasionally' which means that they put out a new publication when they have the content- which might be every few weeks or it might be two months.

When Rumble started they were one of the very few micro-fiction magazines out there and despite the growth in that area, they are still considered to be one of the best.
For full submission guidelines, to read past editions or just to use their funky tool which allows you to change the page colour, visit them!