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There's still time to submit to NPR's Three-Minute Fiction summer contest. It costs nothing to submit, no fees, no postage, and the winner wins...(sarcastic drumroll)...a book, How Fiction Works, by the literary critic for The New Yorker and the judge of the contest, James Wood.
Wood says he's looking for "the fragmentary, the suggestive, and the anecdotal. I'm looking for the writer's ability to suggest a world rather than fill in a world."
The piece should be under 500 words and you cut and paste it into the contact form on their site. Guidelines are pretty standard, and the submission form couldn't be easier (click "other" in the subject line). Every other weekend since June 20, James Wood has read his favorites on All Things Considered. The winner will have his/her story read on ATC, then be interviewed. Contest winner will be notified on or about July 24. Yeah, that's no typo. There are only two more days to submit. I know, I know, I didn't hear about it until today (thanks to the Godmother, Nicole Chakalis). Still, you have until 11:59pm on July 18. Y'all have polished quickies, just send them in. So far they've received over 1,300 submissions.
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