FemFlash 2013 – Feminist writing competition
We present you, dear mooks, with the winners and shortlisted entries for Femflash 2013. Congratulations to all the talented and passionate participants involved.
FemFlash 2013 WINNERS
- 1st Prize:My Mother Checks the Weather Before She Leaves – Chloe Goodwin
- Runner-up:Cat Calls/Interview – Krystyn Bacon
- Runner-up:The Ladies – Stephanie Lord
Shortlisted Entries
- The Hijab – Warda Yassin
- Sex Workers Lament – Priscilla Ngxola
- Procedures for the Cop After Thelma and Louise – Angela Readman
- Not Like the Other Girls – Amber Kennedy
- Silly Girls – Kathy Keogh
- 414 Fumes – Maneesa Johnson
- A Poem to My Leg Hair – Charlie Holyoak
Competition closed.
MEET OUR PANEL OF JUDGES
Our thanks to Bust Magazine for sponsoring this event xxx
Kirsty Logan is the author of The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales (Salt, 2014). She is the Books & LGBT editor for The List, and is currently working on a novel, The Gracekeeper, about a circus boat in a flooded world. She lives in Glasgow with her girlfriend.
Jane Bradley is the founder and editor-in-chief of For Books’ Sake, the UK webzine dedicated to books by and for independent women. Shes the co-editor of short story collections Short Stack and Derby Shorts, and her fiction has been published in print and around the web.
Kaite Welsh is a journalist and author whose work has featured in The Guardian, The Independent and the New Statesman, and her fiction has been nominated for several awards, including the Cheshire Prize for Literature.
Magda Knight is the Co-Founding Editor of Mookychick. She occasionally writes for The Huffington Post, and her speculative and YA fiction can be found on Amazon. She has been longlisted for the Mslexia YA Novel competition twice. She has just put the finishing touches to a YA psychological locked-room mystery set in an orphanage.
A Feminist Writing Competition…
Slut shaming. Women in movies. Online bomb threats. Impossible Disney princesses and skewed beauty standards. The glass ceiling for women in everything from banking to comedy. Being told it’s, uh, you know, dude, a little bit uncool to call yourself a feminist. Feminism is prevalent in all aspects of society and it affects, ooh, pretty much 100% of the population!
This year’s FEMFLASH 2013 is a flash fiction writing competition celebrating feminism today. Winners receive wealth, fame and a 1 year digital subscription to BUST Magazine. This competition is open to people of all genders. Global entries welcome.
PRIZES
First Prize
- £50 (or your country’s equivalent)
- Publication with a link to your blog on Mookychick
- 1 year digital subscription to the fabled BUST magazine!
Runner-Up Prize (x2)
- £25 (or your country’s equivalent)
- Publication with a link to your blog on Mookychick
- 1 year digital subscription to BUST magazine!
Shortlisted Prize (x10)
- Publication with a link to your blog on Mookychick
HOW TO ENTER
1) Entry is free.
2) You simply need a blog, a Tumblr or a place where you can put words online.
3) To enter, create a haiku, poem or piece of flash fiction relating to an aspect of feminism. Maximum word count per entry is 200 words.
4) Post your competition entry on your blog. Copy and paste the following bolded text under your entry:
This is an entry for the FEMFLASH 2013 writing competition from Mookychick Online. Enter now.
(“FEMFLASH 2013” should link to this page at http://www.mookychick.co.uk/feminism/uk-feminism/femflash-2013.php)
5) Email [email protected] with your entry. Make the email subject header FEMFLASH 2013. In the body of the email, please include 2 things: The URL of your entry and your name.
You can enter as many times as you like! Just make a new post for each entry and email us with the entry’s details.
The competition closes on 26 October (Hillary Clinton’s birthday, yo). A list of shortlisted entries will be compiled by 1st November, and our wonderful panel of judges will determine the final winners by 15 November. Winners and shortlisters will be informed via email by 20 November.
NOW… IT’S UP TO YOU. ENTER. SPREAD THE WORD. WE LOOK FORWARD TO WIT, PASSION, INTELLIGENCE, FURY, GOOD HUMOUR, DISGUST, JOY… EVERYTHING. GOOD LUCK!
With thanks to BUST magazine! xxx