Mookychick: Feminist Flash Fiction 2011 Contest seeks entries

Have you been told it's a bit uncool to call yourself a feminist? Now you can prove them wrong!

To promote feminism in writing, Mookychick--the alternative style magazine, how-to guide & feminist forum--is launching a new annual writing competition, Feminist Flash 2011. The contest is judged by a panel of noted feminist writers, and there is no entry fee. Here are the fabulous details:

Deadline: November 30, 2011

First Prize: £100 (or your country's equivalent), Publication with a link to your blog on Mookychick, 1 Year digital subscription to the fabled Bust magazine.

2 x Runner-Up Prizes: £25, Publication on Mookychick, 1 Year digital subscription to the fabled Bust magazine.

10 x Shortlisted Prizes: Publication on Mookychick.

How to Enter:
- There is no entry fee.
- You need to have an online presence you can post work on: a blog or website to call your own. A place where you can put words.
- You need to create a haiku, poem, or flash fiction story under 200 words. Maximum word count per entry is 200 words. Your poetry or fiction needs to relate to an aspect of feminism.
- Post your competition entry on your blog or website. In the same post, you must copy and paste the following bolded text under your entry: This is an entry for the Mookychick FEMINIST FLASH FICTION competition. Enter now. ("Enter" should link to http://bit.ly/femflash)
- E-mail competitions@mookychick.co.uk with your entry. Make the subject header FEMINIST FLASH 2011. In the body of the e-mail, please include two 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 (be sure to include the link underneath) and e-mail them with the entry's details.

Full Contest Guidelines & Judges: http://bit.ly/femflash

If you haven't checked out the site yet, it's super cute, a bit snarky, and always fun and informative! Mookychick (http://www.mookychick.co.uk/) is a weekly online magazine for alternative women that features alternative style, beauty, health, relationship and career advice, music and general alternative culture. They're into social activism and come up with how-to guides on everything from casting a spell to making a fruit bowl out of a record. Plus, they wrote an amazing review of WOW! here.

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PS. Remember, WOW!'s Fall Flash Fiction Contest, with guest judge literary agent Andrea Hurst, also closes on November 30, 2011. We hope you enter both! Good luck!

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