Microfic Contest Deadline
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June 3, 2010
Last month, HILOBROW’s Magister Ludi invited you to write a short-short story whose premise is this: after a catastrophic accident of some sort, your town or city has been flooded with crude oil.
The deadline is 5 p.m. (EST) on June 5th.
HILOBROW will donate $100 in honor of the contest’s winner to the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit which seeks to prevent offshore oil spills. Three finalists will also be selected; HILOBROW will donate $50 apiece to CBD in honor of these finalists.
Act now! Here are the contest guidelines and submission rules.
MORE PRIZES FOR THE WINNER: In addition to the $100 donated to the Center for Biological Diversity in his or her honor, the winner will be sent a HiLobrow t-shirt (all sizes except Men’s Large available), and his or her story will be published on HiLobrow and read by HiLobrow coeditor Matthew Battles during the fifth episode of our Radium Age Science Fiction podcast, “Parallel Universe: Pazzo.”
JUNE 11 PODCAST RECORDING: The theme of our podcast’s fifth episode is ECO-CATASTROPHE. Boston-area HiLobrow readers are invited to join us at 6:45pm on Friday, June 11 at PAZZO BOOKS, in West Roxbury. Our podcast team will present excerpts from Fred MacIsaac’s The Hothouse World (1931), S. Fowler Wright’s Deluge (1927), Gabriel De Tarde’s Underground Man (1905 in English), George Allen England’s Darkness and Dawn (1914), Louis Pope Gratacap’s The Evacuation of England (1908), Edmond Hamilton’s The Polar Doom (1928), Andre Maurois’ The Next Chapter: The War Against the Moon (1928 in English), and J.J. Connington’s Nordenholt’s Million (1923). Plus, as mentioned above, our micro-fiction contest winner.
Peggy Nelson will accompany the readings with an original theremin score. Beer and wine will be served.