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Long ears, short fiction. Join our 48-hour, 500-word flash fiction contest! Sign-ups NOW OPEN at www.jerboalit.com/registration
We’re having so much fun reading all of the contest 2 submissions, we already set our sights on contest 3.
That’s right, we’re back again with another Jerboa Lit 500 flash fiction contest! 💥
Registration is open now, and the contest begins Friday, October 3.
Sign up: jerboalit.com
Thank you for the reminder: just posted some numbers! 116 stories were submitted!
01.07.2025 23:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Some numbers from the 2nd Jerboa Lit 500!
• 116 stories submitted 📖✍️
• Writers from 13 countries participating 🌐
• 5 different continents represented! 🌎🌏
• 2 months until the results are released (August 29th!)
• 1 amazing community ❤️
Thank you so much to everyone who entered!
#writingcommunity
TODAY'S THE DAY for our flash fiction contest!
48 hours! 500 words! $2,200 in prizes!
We'll draw a prompt tonight at 10PM CST, and registered writers will send us their stories by Sunday.
Want to more info? Head over to www.jerboalit.com
#WriteSky #Writers #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing
FINAL DAY TO SIGN UP for our flash fiction contest!
48 hours! 500 words! $2,200 in prizes!
We'll draw a prompt at 10PM CST on June 27th, and then writers will have the weekend to write their best stories!
Want to more info? Head over to www.jerboalit.com
#WriteSky #Writers #WritingCommunity
FINAL DAYS TO SIGN UP for our flash fiction contest!
48 hours! 500 words! $2,200 in prizes!
We'll draw a prompt at 10PM CST on June 27th, and then writers will have the weekend to write their best stories!
Want to more info? Head over to www.jerboalit.com
#WriteSky #Writers #WritingCommunity
This is the FINAL WEEK TO SIGN UP for the Jerboa Lit 500!
48 hours! 500 words! $2,200 in prizes!
We'll draw a prompt consisting of a genre, item, and short phrase at 10PM Central on June 27th, and then the fun begins!
Want to sign up? Head over here: www.jerboalit.com
#writers #authors #writing
Just over 2 weeks until the next Jerboa Lit 500!
June 27-29: 48 hours! 500 words! $2,200! And another sweet prize: The 74th issue of @mcsweeneys.net! Cards, pencils, art, and an awesome anthology, all in one nifty lunchbox.
Enter our flash fiction contest for a chance to win! Visit jerboalit.com
Picture of a stuffed animal jerboa on a pink background, with fake green plants sitting near it. The jerboa is holding the book “The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction” in its lap.
Our next prize for honorable mentions? “Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction” by @rosemetalpress.bsky.social. 📓 25 essays and the history of short fiction await one lucky winner.
Want a copy? Submit your story in the next Jerboa Lit 500 contest for a chance to win! Register at jerboalit.com
Guess what—We have 8 Community Passes to give out, thanks to @chicagowrites.bsky.social! ✏️
The Chicago Writers Association is a creative writing organization that supports the literary community in Chicago. Check them out!
Need a Community Pass? Let us know at jerboa@jerboalit.com
@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social!
04.06.2025 02:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows a copy of the book “Best Microfiction 2024” by Pelekinetic publishing laying on a blue floral background. Next to the book is a stuffed toy jerboa, cropped so only the head is showing, peeking out from the left side of the frame.
It’s finally June, which means our next Jerboa Lit 500 flash fiction writing contest is this month! 💥
If you enter and don’t snag a cash prize, you might win an honorable mention prize—maybe even this very copy of “Best Microfiction 2024” by @pelekinesis.bsky.social
Register today! jerboalit.com
ONE MONTH until the Jerboa Lit 500 flash fiction contest! 🐿️
June 27-29th! 48 hours! 500 words! 💥
Prompt reveal at 10pm US Central time on June 27! (A genre! An item! A short phrase!)
$25 entry! $2,200 in cash prizes! Honorable mentions!
We're so excited—Can you tell?
Register at jerboalit.com 🔗
Now introducing Community Passes!
If you'd like to sign up for a Jerboa Lit contest but are having trouble affording the registration fee, let us know and we'll add you to the waitlist for a free entry.
And if you are registering, please consider donating to the fund to help a writer in need.
Picture of a jerboa stuffed animal on a blue background, displaying a copy of “Best Microfiction 2023” in its lap.
Happy weekend! Resting up for the Jerboa Lit 500 next month? Don’t forget: We have prizes for honorable mentions in addition to cash prizes! ✨
Here’s a sneak peek: “Best Microfiction 2023” from @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social, featuring 83 short stories 📚 Enter at jerboalit.com for a chance to win!
@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social!
18.05.2025 04:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re less than 50 days away from the next Jerboa Lit 500, and this time around, we have prizes for honorable mentions in addition to cash prizes! 📚
A sneak peak of what’s in store: “First Fiction: Stories from 10 New Writers” from @mcsweeneys.net
Enter at jerboalit.com for a chance to win!
💥We’re just TWO MONTHS away from the next Jerboa Lit 500—Have you signed up yet?
🐿️ WHEN: June 27–29, 2025
🐿️ WHAT: A weekend-long writing competition
🐿️ WHY: The winner takes home $1,000, with more 💰 for the four runner-ups
Got a question we didn’t answer? Learn more (and register!) at jerboalit.com
June 27-29th! 48 hours! 500 words!
We hope that you will join us for the 2nd Edition of the Jerboa Lit 500 flash fiction contest this summer! $1,000 top prize, and a brand-new prompt picked from our trusty video hat!
For more information, and to register, head to www.jerboalit.com!
Congrats again to the winners of the inaugural Jerboa Lit 500! All winning stories and author bios are officially on our website at www.jerboalit.com/results
Also, registration is now open for our 2nd contest! June 27-29! 48 hours, 500 words! Sign up here: www.jerboalit.com/registration
June 27-29th! 48 hours! 500 words!
We hope that you will join us for the 2nd Edition of the Jerboa Lit 500 flash fiction contest this summer! $1,000 top prize, and a brand-new prompt picked from our trusty video hat!
For more information, and to register, head to www.jerboalit.com!
30 minutes until we go live with our awards ceremony for the Jerboa Lit 500! Join us at www.instagram.com/jerboalit/ at 9PM Central time and watch us celebrate all the fine writers who participated in our first contest!
22.03.2025 01:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This Friday, March 21 at 9PM Central time, we'll be announcing the winners of the inaugural Jerboa Lit 500 on Instagram live!
Please join us at www.instagram.com/jerboalit/ for an awards ceremony celebrating all of the excellent writers from our first contest, and an announcement for contest two!
Sorry, been sick all week and just saw this! Yes, we're looking good for 3/21 as the day we release results. Will put out an announcement with details in the coming days with regards to how the results will be released -- email, yes, but we may do something special as well. Stay tuned!
10.03.2025 03:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Of course! We got 68 submissions for the contest
27.02.2025 18:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A small fire extinguisher and a plush jerboa share a couple glasses of red wine. There is a lighted candle labeled "Slow Burn" in the foreground, and love is in the air.
Happy Valentine's Day from Jerboa Lit! Jerbie's having a lovely evening in with the fire extinguisher from our first-ever contest prompt 🥰🧯
Hallie and David are just about halfway through all your lovely 500-word rom-coms! Jerbie helps but he's taking a break tonight 🙂🔥
This sounds incredible! @megpokrass.bsky.social
30.01.2025 02:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Three slips of paper, one reading "Romantic Comedy," one reading "Fire extinguisher," and one reading "what was I talking about." Together, these form the prompt for the first-ever Jerboa Lit 500 flash fiction contet!
❤️ - 🧯- 🤔💭
^ That's our first prompt!
We are beyond excited to read everyone's submissions -- thanks to all the #writers who participated in the very first Jerboa Lit 500! Results will be announced March 21. :)
Yes! We will be sending out the prompt right around 10PM Central time tonight, and that will mark the start of the contest
17.01.2025 18:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT!
Our 48-hour, 500-word flash fiction contest kicks off at 10PM Central time, when we draw the prompt from our spiffy hat!
Want to join in the fun? For all the info and to register, head to: jerboalit.com
#writers #authors #writingcommunity #writesky #flashfiction #flashfic
