Win Cash Prize $200 at Parsec Short Story Contest
Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Parsec Ink is now accepting submissions for its 2021 Parsec Short Story Contest. The theme for the 2021 contest is Still Waters, Deep Thoughts. This can be conveyed in the setting, plot, characters, dialogue…the only limit is your imagination. The theme must be integral to the story in some way and not just mentioned in passing.
Eligibility:
The contest is open to non-professional writers. Previous first-place winners and current contest coordinators are ineligible to enter.
Guidelines:
Word count for all entries: No minimum, no more than 3500 words.
Genre: All stories must be of the Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror genres.
Publication status: Stories must be original, unpublished, and unsold to any other market. Manuscripts should be in standard manuscript format, double-spaced, and written in either Courier or Times New Roman font. Acceptable formats include .doc, .docx, and .rtf.
For an example of the standard manuscript format, see: https://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
Submission to the contest implies consent for publication, but all rights revert immediately to the author upon publication. Coordinators/Readers screen the entries and the ten best submissions are then read by the judges. Decisions of the judges and coordinators are final.
Number: A maximum of 2 submissions is allowed. Submit each one separately.
Prizes:
The winning story will be the one that most effectively uses the contest theme as a key element.
- First-place receives $200 and publication in the 2020 Confluence program book.
- Second-place receives $100
- Third-place receives $50
About Parsec Ink:
Parsec Ink is home to the semi-pro, speculative fiction anthology, Triangulation, and the annual Parsec-sff.org short-story contest. Parsec Ink has been producing quality speculative fiction anthologies since 2003. Parsec Ink is a subsidiary of Parsec, Inc.
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