FMAM’s FIRST ANNUAL
LEAP into the NEW YEAR and KNOCK ‘EM DEAD! Contest!
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December 18, 2004: FINALISTS ANNOUNCED! This is a two part contest gang. That means you get to choose your POISON. HAHAHA! Take door number ONE or door number TWO and run with it!
DOOR NUMBER ONE:
What Holiday, you ask? Your choice, we answer. Keep in mind that FMAM uses contests to get some of our very BEST stories and we like having stories that are applicable to a current Holiday. Does that mean that a Christmas story is too late? No way! it takes a long time to get into FMAM. We are a PRINT magazine, don’t forget! And a quarterly! Think ahead! So basically just ask yourself this: anyone you think deserves to be murdered in connection with a recent or not so recent Holiday? If the answer is yes, start your motors and write baby, write! DOOR NUMBER TWO:
POV is often talked about, and often misused, or so they say. We hope this contest will teach you what to do or not to do or what you thought you couldn’t do and now know can be done with flair! So, use or misuse POV to your story’s advantage. Here’s an example of what I mean, but you come up with your own! The killer might be the writer – you would tell the tale in the voice of the killer. The killer might be more than one person, in fact. Multiple POV’s? Oh boy, what a can of maggots there! Just give us a story we love that has something special to say about POV and yer in like Flynn!
Other than we want great, GREAT stories, there are few rules. If you’ve read FMAM, and we hope you have, if you’re SMART you have, you know how little or much profanity will fly with us, you know we’re cutting edge in some things, and not in others. Word count means little to me so give us stories that range from 1000 to 8000 words. Okay? But if you’re on the high end, best make it greater than great! Don’t bore the judges! Don’t you dare!
You’ll have a $15 entry fee and you can enter as often as you like. We want you to know that we use our contests to help keep FMAM alive. We’re hoping this’ll be the year they make money for us. We also use them to give Short Fiction writers something GREAT to boast about on their resumes, etc. and the money you win's not bad either, is it? You can pay the entry fee through Pay Pal here or you can send a check to babs lakey – make the check out to Futures please! And send it to me at: 3039 38th Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Paste your story inside your email and send it to MANAGING EDITOR- Earl Staggs EarlStag@juno.com At the top of your entry put your name, address, email address, word count, and ONE or TWO so we know which part you’re going for! You may start those engines NOW and this contest deadline will be JUNE 20th 2004. I hope you’ll help me spread the word and make this a great contest for FMAM and YOU! FMAM’s FIRST ANNUAL
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NOTICE: FMAM's annual shutdowns for new submissions are June
1 to Aug. 1 and Nov. 1 thru Jan. 10. Dime 2004 FMAM 2004  Dime 2005
FMAM'S SECOND ANNUAL SHORT MYSTERY STORY ANTHOLOGY DIME II,
2005. Dime 2006
FMAM'S THIRD ANNUAL SHORT MYSTERY STORY ANTHOLOGY DIME III,
2006. FIRE TO FLY 2004 Closed for submissions as of Sept. 30, 2004. Winners to be announced! More info at Fire to Fly. SLESAR'S TWIST 2004 FMAM's annual “Twist” contest, now called SLESAR'S TWIST, features prizes for the best twist ending short mystery stories as characterized by the Hitchcock style of stories written by Henry Slesar. Hitchcock called Henry the 'master of the ironic'. Keep that word in mind as you write. Entries must be submitted to FMAM by Oct 15, 2004. More info at Slesar's Twist. NEW! FMAM's online list! JOIN NOW! Welcome new and used J writers, readers, fans, artists, more. Send a blank email to: FMAMwriters-artists-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or check at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FMAMwriters-artists Look into our new FMAM list for new and not so new writers and artists—this includes cartoonists and screenwriters and you name it, we welcome YOU to join us! The original plan for Futures when I started it was a world wide writer’s/ artist’s community. I felt we could help one another and together do what we might never achieve by ourselves. This list is the next step to the dream! You might be interested in this for any number of reasons, to learn, to teach, to network, you name it. Let me know if you have a special suggestion, otherwise, welcome, jump on in! - babs To Subscribe send an email to: To Unsubscribe send an email to: To Contact the List owner send an email to: FMAMwriters-artists-owner@yahoogroups.com Your subscription will help support others - creative writers, artists, poets, cartoonists, columnists - like yourself, and keep a door open when so many others are being shut. Do you work in more than one art form or know someone who does? FMAM has separate poetry submission guidelines, artwork submission guidelines, and story submission guidelines. |
