Interested? Then Try the Frantic Flash

If you are interested in raising money for this good cause but not sure about flashing: Can I do it? Can I write a story in the time? Will I go blank? Will the stories be worthwhile?

Then email Alex or consider joining us for an evening set-time flash session.


Better still why not enter The Seventh Quark Eleventh Frantic Flash, get some practice, have a chance of £100 or more in prizes and help Seventh Quark continue publishing?

We pay out up to 65% of Entry fees and any surplus is ploughed straight into the magazine.

The competiton is held the first Sunday of the month, and the Saturday preceeding. So this month that means 30 September and October 1st.

At 09:00, 18:00 and 21:00 on both days (6 Chances) entrants get a series of prompts by email and they can use one or many of these prompts to inspire a story.

There is no WORD limit but there is a TIME limit of 75 minutes.

Entrants email their story to the organisers within 75 minutes. Those entrants who email within 5 minutes to say "I'm in!" get an extra 5 minutes.

Too short? NOPE! We find that stories posted as soon as 45 minutes are often the best. The idea of flashing is to remove the author's consciousness and tap into the wild soul. In the last two years Boot Campers have sold more than 200 flashes, all written in less than 100 minutes, many in less than 60. These fast-write flashes are competing with (and beating) other short-fiction that has been toiled over. Food for thought?

The answer, I believe, is that when we let free the raw images and ideas, passion and character, the story writes itself.
THINK and the story becomes mechanical and obvious.



Click HERE for the Magazine

On the Site, click on Frantic Flash



Entries cost £6 per story. There is a guaranteed first prize of £100 but prizes will be higher than this if the prize fund reaches £200.

Unusually for competitions, all Flash titles (please add a distinguishing differentiator to ID your own story if using a plain or obvious title*) are posted within 30 minutes of receipt, marks are shown by midnight on Day Two, independent judge's results by Thursday Midnight unless the top X stories are going for a reader vote.



*Example

Days of Wine & Roses (Kurt's Story)
Days of Wine & Roses (New York)
Days of Wine & Roses (by Blossom)

PLEASE NOTE this differentiator must NOT be your submission name or real name.


So you have six chances to find an ideal prompt, the fastest feedback on the planet, a chance to review all entries on a private website, and a chance to give feedback; results in 4-5 Days (a shortlist almost immediately)... and stories published in Seventh Quark Magazine.

GO FOR IT!