Fire to Fly 2003 Writing Contest
Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine's annual Fire to Fly contest selects the best short mystery fiction and flash fiction. Prizes include $300 first prize.
Deadline October 31, 2003
FMAM - Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine is pleased to bring you its sixth annual FIRE TO FLY short story contest for 2003. The stakes are higher, the topics more varied. And theyre doing something new this year -- adding MORE winners. Thats right, more chances for you to win!
Prizes: First: $300, publication in FMAM and a caricatoon drawn by FMAMs own ToonMan, James Oddie.
Second: $100, publication in FMAM and a one-year subscription to FMAM
Third: $50, publication in FMAM and a one-year subscription to FMAM.
Fourth through Eighth prizes: Honorable Mention plus a one-year subscription to FMAM (thats
a $52 value inside the US.)
All winners will receive an original art award certificate created by Pete Welling. Top ten
finalists will also be considered for publication in FMAM by our head of fiction, Earl Staggs,
who is also one of the final judges.
RULES: Enter by following these three simple steps:
Step 1: Enter your short mystery of 5000 words or less using one of the following categories:
| | - Crimes of passion
- Crimes in the future
- Crimes that take us back in time
- Crimes mixed with horror
- Crimes of the Spirit (ghosts, supernatural, etc.)
- Crimes that imitate your favorite classic
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This year well have a separate FLASH "Fire to Fly." You may pick any one of the above
categories and write 500 words or less. Flash will have its own winners and prizes.
First Place Flash: $100 and publication in FMAM. (Minimum of 20 entries or money will be
refunded.)
Three honorable mentions will receive a yearly subscriptions and the special art certificates
created by Pete Welling.
Step 2: Send your check (payable to FUTURES MAGAZINE) in the amount of $15 per story to
FUTURES, 3039 38th Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN55406. Enter as many stories as you like,
there is no limit.
Note: You may enter reprints, and you may also enter your story and specify that you do not want
it published in FMAM if it wins - that is always your choice!
Step 3: Paste your entry in the body of an e-mail and send to FMAMcontests@hotmail.com by
the deadline of October 31, 2003.
Please note: if youd like to have your story considered for an issue of FMAM also (and it is not
a reprint) please write to Babs for instructions on how to make that happen:
babs@fmam.biz .
Thats it! Three simple steps to enter! And its be a crime not to. Send in your entries today.
Insider tips: We love a great title. Use your imagination from the get go. We also love a great
mystery that keeps us on the edge of our chairs. We want a great beginning and a great ending.
Surprise us on occasion. If you need some tips, go to G. Miki Haydens HOW TO WRITE A
MYSTERY. Give us characters to love and to hate, and dont be afraid of creating unusual
settings. Take us to the future, back in time, or right here today, but make it the best youve got!
Visit http://www.fmam.biz to read up on the contests, see what the magazine is all about. Read a copy to see what FUTURES publishes -- copies available at Borders, Barnes and Nobles, and Books a Million nationwide, and at independent bookstores all over. Ask for it, if you dont see it. Copies and subscriptions can be purchased online at http://www.fmam.biz.
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