BOO! Now that you simply’re formally filled with fright, use that feeling of terror and write some spooky espresso fiction! As is our mostly-annual custom, Sprudge will likely be publishing unique tales of coffee-themed dread the week main as much as Halloween, and we need to learn your tales—and publish them.
It’s one among our favourite occasions of the yr, once we get to learn espresso tales that stretch a little bit of artistic muscle (and ship a chill down our spines). The subject is totally as much as you, as long as it’s of a espresso bent. No matter it’s about espresso that offers you chills, be it fastastical tales of horror or tales whose frights come from their realness, we need to learn it. Submissions are due by Sunday, October twentieth.
Enter the Sprudge Halloween Flash Fiction Contest Right now!
No earlier writing expertise is required. We don’t want your CV to contemplate your story for inclusion on this yr’s festivities, and actually, a few of our favourite tales have come from first-time Sprudge contributors. The Commerce Secret by Levi Rogers and Excessive Measures by Olivia Laskowski are however two such shining examples. You can also etch your title in blood alongside trade leaders like Michelle Johnson, Mike Ferguson, Nathanael Might, Ever Meister, and Eric J. Grimm, who’ve taken half in our yearly horror collection.
We’ll be selecting a complete of three unique tales from three distinctive writers this yr, based mostly on how enjoyable and terrifying they’re to learn—and whether or not or not they match our haunted imaginative and prescient for this yr’s week of spooky content material. Shoot for 1,000 phrases or so, however don’t get too hung up on the numbers. Inform your story in one of the simplest ways potential, however a 3,000-word story goes to need to be actually good to make the minimize.
Together with residing on endlessly in infamy within the spooky halls of Sprudge Halloween Fiction, the successful entries can even be awarded an honorarium of $100. That’s quite a lot of Snickers Bar Lattes. Try a few of our close to 10 years price of unique Halloween fiction for ins-boo-ration.
Enter the Sprudge Halloween Flash Fiction Contest Right now!
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Community and a employees author based mostly in Dallas. Learn extra Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
