IMPORTANT NEWS

7Q4 ("Right") is printed and should go out this weekend/Monday.

Just waiting on the folding/stapling from the Printer

IMPORTANT NOTE

If you are a 7Q subscriber please email Alex Keegan and confirm
your subscription and current contact details. 7Q is only being sent
to those subscribers who do confirm and are checked off


REMINDER THE 7Q FRANTIC FLASH

Saturday-Sunday the Eleventh Frantic Flash

£6 Entry, or 3 for £15 pre-paid)

Minimum Prize £100
(50% of Entry guaranteed, average 65%)

Sign up as a possible entrant so we have your Email address.

Prompts sent 0900-1800-2100 Saturday and Sunday (UK Time)

You then have 75 Minutes to write your story and email back

80 minutes if you reply immediately and say "I'm in"

Shortlist at the latest Midnight Monday

Low Entry (typically 20-40 stories, so a great chance of winning)

It's a great way of accessing the unconscious (no time to make mistakes)
and the quality is surprisingly high.

Any surplus goes to fund Seventh Quark Magazine

If you would like to receive the emails, email


alex.keegan@btinternet.com

*******************************************

Just the FF-11 Details

The Seventh Quark Frantic Flash Competition.
(Sept 30th & Oct 1st)

TWO Entry Days ("First weekend of the month")
SIX separate time-slots. (0900-1800-2100) (UK Times)
SIX sets of prompts. (6-20 prompts)
Entrants can enter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 times with appropriate fees.

£6 for a single story.
3 stories for £15 if pre-paid.
4 stories for £20 if pre-paid
5/6 stories for £25 if pre-paid

Please note there can be no refunds if writers are blocked or ill.

It's too complicated to deal with!



NO word limit, minimum or maximum.
75/80 Minute time-limit for added pressure!

All entrants can access all stories for discussion (author-blind)
Within 30 minutes of story time-slot closing.

Titles scored and updated on website in real-time with scores
Short-List by Monday Midnight.

Independently Judged Results by Thursday Midnight
or
A Reader Vote, Shorter Short-List published in Seventh Quark

£100/$200 guaranteed First Prize.
Prizes updated on line as entries increase.

Minimum of 50% of Entry used for prizes, average 60% before costs.
To date:
3,527 in Entry Fees
2,130 in Prizes = 60.4% paid in prizes
Costs are taken out from the 39.6% surplus
All surpluses go to Seventh Quark magazine

Peer feedback available on all stories, if desired.
Feedback from Alex Keegan available on all stories
Note this is done privately so stories are not "published"
Any entrant can request their story NOT be seen by the group.
All stories are author-anonymous

Up to ten stories may be published in Seventh Quark Magazine
(maximum to date 5)

Run by a team that between them has won almost 40 first prizes.
Readers have won almost 100 First Prizes

More on Flash Compettitions

There are many flash competitions out there for writers to cut their teeth on, some free entry but with small prizes, others members only.

Here are the ones I could find.

Below these more details of the 7th Quark 11th Frantic Flash
(30 Sep-Oct 1st)

You will see that the 7QFF has a number of unique selling points.


www.chapternverse.co.uk Every Friday (24 Sept)
£0 Entry £5 prize 300 Words No Time Limit

writersbillboard.net (25 Sept)
£2:50 Entry No cash prize! 400 words. No time limit.

www.atticdwellers.org.uk (26 Sept)
£0 Entry. No cash prize! 300 Words No Time Limit.
Members Only

www.allaboutwriting.co.uk/flashcompetition.htm (28 Sep)
£0 Entry. No cash prize! Monthly. 60-500 Words No Time Limit.
Winner gets booklet

www.chapternverse.co.uk Every Friday (29 Sept)
£0 Entry £5 prize 300 Words No Time Limit

www.flashwriters.co.uk Monthly,
Members Only (30 September)
£0 Entry £20 prize 100 Words (3 prompts) No Time Limit?

www.mmminc.org/html/contests.htm (30 September)
$10 Entry. $200 Prize < 1,000 words. No Time Limit

www.rhyminromeo.com/page2.htm (30 Sept)
£0 Entry £50 Book Token 300 words. No Time Limit
Flash starting with a given line...

www.redpens.co.uk Members Only (30 Sept)
£0 Entry £30 Prize 500-1,000 Words
No Time Limit
Title MUST BE "Mind Your Language"

www.thewritepath.co.uk/competition.htm (30 Sept)
£0 Entry Gift Certificate or Book of Choice

(I couldn't get this URL to work)


www.twistedtongue.co.uk/competition.htm (1st Oct)
£1:50 £?? Prize (Percentage of entry fees are shared out)
Minimum 500 words. No Time Limit


The Seventh Quark Frantic Flash Competition.
(Sept 30th & Oct 1st)

TWO Entry Days ("First weekend of the month")
SIX separate time-slots. (0900-1800-2100) (UK Times)
SIX sets of prompts. (6-20 prompts)
Entrants can enter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 times with appropriate fees.

£6 for a single story.
3 stories for £15 if pre-paid.
4 stories for £20 if pre-paid
5/6 stories for £25 if pre-paid

Please note there can be no refunds if writers are blocked or ill.

It's too complicated to deal with!



NO word limit, minimum or maximum.
75/80 Minute time-limit for added pressure!

All entrants can access all stories for discussion (author-blind)
Within 30 minutes of story time-slot closing.

Titles scored and updated on website in real-time with scores
Short-List by Monday Midnight.

Independently Judged Results by Thursday Midnight
or
A Reader Vote, Shorter Short-List published in Seventh Quark

£100/$200 guaranteed First Prize.
Prizes updated on line as entries increase.

Minimum of 50% of Entry used for prizes, average 60% before costs.
To date:
3,527 in Entry Fees
2,130 in Prizes = 60.4% paid in prizes
Costs are taken out from the 39.6% surplus
All surpluses go to Seventh Quark magazine

Peer feedback available on all stories, if desired.
Feedback from Alex Keegan available on all stories
Note this is done privately so stories are not "published"
Any entrant can request their story NOT be seen by the group.
All stories are author-anonymous

Up to ten stories may be published in Seventh Quark Magazine
(maximum to date 5)

Run by a team that between them has won almost 40 first prizes.
Readers have won almost 100 First Prizes

Win a Prize! Free Entry

Talking of prompts (and see the Boot Camp Keegan blog most days for BC Prompts) I took a scan of my email trash and found this lot in about two minutes.

A bit like those "found poems"

IMO these spammers are wasted. They should be writers.


Anyway, an Alex Keegan Novel of your choice to the best story using some of the below as inspiration. Second prize is two AK Novels...

I'll judge FIRST on quality of story and second on ingenuity.

TIP: prompts work by "letting them happen" not by tortuously engineering texts to fit them in.


LOOK!


Your cash, orange throated
Your future, oyster tree
Your future, pearl hardening
Hi, narrow-necked
Your money, palm honey
Hi, much-branched
Your Health, North-Seeking
Your cash, olive family
Better future, woman movement
Hi, pale bark
Your health, pale reddish
Aggressor Punk
Guesswork Numb
Order status mid-thoracic
Top-hat letter-size
Encore hot seat
Out, his ferocious stars that about you have to us back
Gasp overtime
Bonjour/Salaam from marrakesh
Unauthorised Access to Your PayPal Account
Merciful
Spelled try different key words
Clutton Bunfight
And Maybe it's yours about
Fire hydrant
News maps
Wails on Sunday
Typo Merciless
Narcissism Predisposition
New Moderator Needed
Lard Ass Blake
South-East Yesterday
Axis of Two them, Appeal to Buy Off Enemies
Join Alerts Create
Mountainous Curse
Monday and Strikes
Sure Words
Substantially
And tackled him
Floodlight Anglican
Canal people
Overpower Acrobatics

Seventh Quark Issue 4

Good News Bad News?

A New Issue of 7th Quark goes out next Friday (Printer Dependent) and I have some time on my hands (oh time, time) so expect to see Issues 5 & 6 following close behind.

Still desperate for GOOD material.

If you look at a piece abnd think, "Yeah, I could send that..." it ISN'T good enough.

Winning Writers. We are happy to reprint comp 1-2-3s as part of our policy of showing aspiring writers what wins comps.


PS read the "winners" of a large international competition last week. One was utter DRIVEL and of the rest I don't think one was good enough for Seventh Quark



PS Today's hits take the BC total to 164 for the year.



Alex