Saturday, October 31, 2009

Issue 26 Now Online

This Flash Me Magazine issue is our special all-fantasy issue, featuring stories by: Gregory E. Clifford, Gitte Christensen, James Ellis, April Grey, Kelli D. Meyer, Donna Quattrone, and William Wood.

Our Feature Story this quarter is "Soul Mate" by Gregory E. Clifford. He receives $20 US and a free year’s subscription to Flash Me Magazine for being the favorite flash story this quarter.

We also have three bonus stories chosen from the first Flash Fiction Boot Camp.

Our PDF subscription features an interview with Jannette Johnson and book reviews of On the Edge by Ilona Andrews, reviewed by Elizabeth Hull, and An Ungodly Child by Rachel Green, reviewed by Mona Lisa Safai.

We're also pleased to announce our award nominations for 2009 in this issue. We nominated six stories for the Pushcart Prize, and two for the 3rd Annual Micro Award. Congratulations to those authors - we wish them the best of luck!

To see all this quarter has to offer, subscribe today!

JDawson
Editor-in-Chief

Friday, October 23, 2009

Slush Update - Call for Submissions

So far we have received 120 submissions:

1 accepted, 11 held for voting, 1 withdrawn, and 88 rejected. In addition to that, we have sent 6 back for requested rewrites, three of which have come back already and been held for voting. That's impressive!

We still have 13 submissions before the editorial board, but our inbox is empty!

Send us more stories - quick!

JDawson
Editor-in-Chief

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

2009 Award Nominations

I just packaged up our award nominations for 2009 and emailed the nominees. Six stories were chosen for the Pushcart Prize and two were nominated for the 3rd Annual Micro Award.

The list of nominees will be announced on our website on October 31, 2009.

We're always looking for new ways to celebrate the best of flash fiction, so if you know of any other prizes, awards, or collections that accept nominations from editors, please let us know!

JDawson
Editor-in-Chief

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Slush Pile Update

So far we have received 104 submissions:

1 accepted, 11 held for voting, 1 withdrawn, and 71 rejected. In addition to that, we have sent 6 back for requested rewrites, three of which have come back already and been held for voting. That's impressive!

We still have 10 submissions before the editorial board, and 4 more still in our inbox.

In the past few months, we've added five new editors to the staff, so we're churning out replies quicker than ever before. We have reviewed all submissions received before October 9th, so if you submitted prior to that and haven't heard from us, please query.

You may also notice more editorial feedback with rejection letters. We have so any editors reviewing slush that we occasionally have five or six editors commenting before we make a final decision. We are also making an effort to give detailed feedback for stories that have flaws we can point out easily. We hope this extra feedback makes a rejection letter a little less like a rejection and more like a review from an experienced editorial board.

We look forward to seeing your stories in the slush pile...

FMM Staff

Monday, October 5, 2009

Slush Update

We have received 78 submissions this quarter, which isn't a huge amount, but the quality of those submissions is much higher than in recent quarters.

So far we have accepted 1 story (though we have not notified the author yet), held 7 for voting, and rejected 43. There are 11 stories before the editorial board right now.

We've had 1 withdrawal, and have 15 submissions still in our inbox.

FMM Staff