Fiction Desk Flash Fiction Winners and New Comp

The Fiction Desk are delighted to announce the winners of their 2013 Flash Fiction Competition. They are:

Gavin Cameron, with 'A Big Leap'
James Collett, with 'The Clever Skeleton'
Damon King, with 'Simmo!'
Paul Lenehan, with 'For Joy'
Matt Plass, with 'Invisible Them'
Ian Shine, with 'Love Stops at Ten Metres'

And the overall winner is:

Tania Hershman, with 'A Call to Arms'
To see the full announcement, visit their blog.

... and The Fiction Desk's new ghost story competition ...


Today they've launched The Fiction Desk Ghost Story Prize.
The top prize is £500, with a second prize of £100; both winners will feature in an upcoming anthology.

Further details about the ghost story competition.

The Fiction Desk's much anticipated new anthology is due out this month! Crying Just Like Anybody takes its title from a story by Richard Smyth, and features ten new stories.Previous contributors Matt Plass, Matthew Licht, and Colin Corrigan are all making their return in this volume, and newcomers to the series include Die Booth, Mike Scott Thomson, William Thirsk-Gaskill, Luiza Sauma and S.R. Mastrantone.

The Fiction Desk are also delighted to announce that they'll be featuring their first story in translation, with 'I'm the One' from Slovenian author Miha Mazzini.

Crying Just Like Anybody is due out in around two weeks. It's available to pre-order now from Amazon, The Book Depository and your local bookshop. For full details, please visit The Fiction Desk.