Sunday, January 27, 2008

Feel the Love

It’s less than three weeks now before that holiday of heartfelt proportions, Valentine’s Day. And in the spirit of the occasion, Patti Abbott and Aldo Calcagno are inviting published as well as merely aspiring mystery writers to post short stories about love and crime on the Web. The length should be 750 words or fewer, and all entries ought to go up on Valentine’s Day, Thursday, February 14.

Even if you don’t have your own blog or Web site, you can still enter this affair. Calcagno has generously offered to post participating stories in Powder Burn Flash, his noir fiction blog. Both he and Abbott will catalogue links to the entries at their respective sites.

If you’d like to contribute to this outpouring of love (and hate, and jealousy, and ... well, crimes of passion have numerous causes), drop an e-mail note to Abbott at aa2579@wayne.edu, just letting her know the title of your story and where it will appear. Or tell Calcagno (at powderburnflash@sbcglobal.net) that you’ll be sending him a submission to the competition.

1 comment:

pattinase (abbott) said...

Oh, thanks for spreading the word. Can I add that we will also have two artists highlighting their noirish work? If anyone else has artistic ambitions to link or musical ones, it will make the day even more fun.