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Flash Contest: Migration

Deadline: April 10th, 2019 Prizes: The top three winners will receive cash prizes of $75, $50, and $25 respectively Every year, QSF holds a flash fiction contest to create an amazing new anthology of queer speculative fiction stories. We ask authors to do the nearly-impossible – to submit a sci fi, fantasy, paranormal or horror LGBTIQA story that has no more than 300 words. Our 2019 contest launches on March 1st, and closes it April 10th, but we do accept early entries. The theme for 2019 is “Migration”: 1) Seasonal movement of animals from one region to another. 2) Movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions. 3) Movement from one part of something to another. We live in an age of migrations – from one kind of society to another, from one country to another, from one platform to another. It’s a rich vein to mine, and we look forward to seeing your entries, whether they are dark signs of things to come, sophisticated comments on today’s society, or hopeful looks at the future of mankind. We’ll be accepting stories from across the queer spectrum, and would love to see more entries including lesbian, trans, bi, intersex and ace protagonists, as well as gay men. We also welcome diversity in ability and in race. We always get tons of gay sci fi shorts, so if you try something different, you have a better chance of standing out. Try for something unique – take the road less traveled. We’d also love to see more fantasy and horror stories, though we’re still happy to get sci fi and paranormal too. The stories can also fall anywhere across the spectrum romance-wise – romance is fine, but stories can also be genre driven...