Guidelines

  • The AWP HEAT Flash Contest is run in conjunction with AWP HEAT, a reading on Friday, March 8, at Dillon’s Restaurant & Bar, Boston, 955 Boylston Street, one block from Hynes Convention Center. Free. 2:30 – 6:30 p.m.
  • Winners of contest announced at 4:00 p.m. at AWP HEAT.
  •  Respond to this prompt:  “Fire”
  •  Anyone may enter the contest, whether attending AWP or not.
  •  One entry per person, previously unpublished.
  •  Entries must be 1,000 words or less.
  • Stories may be submitted anytime between now and midnight March 1st EST.
  •  Up to three winning stories will be published by JMWW, Prime Number, and Corium.
  •  The contest will be judged by Shaindel Beers (The Children’s War and Other Poems), Cliff Garstang (What the Zhang Boys Know), and Bonnie ZoBell (The Whack-Job Girls). Winners will receive copies of these books.