Flash Fiction GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Here’s what you’ve all been waiting for… the grand prize winner for Salt & Sage’s first annual flash fiction contest! To ensure impartiality, a new group of judges was called in for this final round. They went through the top scorers from each week and gave them their own rankings.
Flash Fiction Winner Week 4
We received multiple entries for this week’s flash fiction contest. Some candles summoned demons; some held the spirits of the long-departed. But only one of them beat out the competition and made all our judges agree–this is the best flash fiction on the theme of CANDLE that we received.
Flash Fiction Winner Week 3
We received multiple entries for this week’s flash fiction contest. Some of them made us laugh; some of them made us sniffle. Some were deliciously scary! There were a surprising amount of red scarves… But only one of them beat out the competition and made all of our judges agree: this is the best flash fiction on the theme of SCARF that we received.
Flash Fiction Week 3
Welcome to Week 3 of our Flash Fiction Contest, with the theme of SCARF. Read the winning entry for week 1 right here! Read the winning entry for week 2 right here! Here’s how it works: Every Monday we announce that week’s theme. Every Saturday we close that week’s contest at midnight PST.
Flash Fiction Winner Week 2
We received multiple entries for this week’s flash fiction contest. Some of them made us laugh (you know who you are, glitter bomb!); some of them made us think. But only one received the highest judging score. As the judges read the anonymous entries, here’s what they had to say…
Flash Fiction Week 2
Welcome to week 2 of our Flash Fiction Contest with the theme of GIFT. Read the winning entry for week 1 right here! Here’s how it works: Every Monday we announce that week’s theme Every Saturday we close that week’s contest at midnight PST Each entry must include that week’s theme, and be no more than 200 words in length You must be following Salt & Sage Books on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram in order to be eligible to win Prizes
Flash Fiction Winner Week 1
We received multiple entries for this week’s flash fiction contest. Some of them made us laugh; some of them made us sniffle. But only one of them beat out the competition and made both of our judges agree–this is the best flash fiction on the theme of ice that we received.
FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE!
What happens when you go to a holiday party and someone asks, “How’s the writing going?” Do you cringe because you’ve been too busy searching online for gifts or hard-to-find ingredients, or decorating ugly sweaters? It can be difficult to find time to write during this season.
Five Tips to Hush Up Your Internal Editor So You Can NaNoWriMo
Yes. I totally used “NaNoWriMo” as a verb. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is “National Novel Writing Month.” It’s when writers voluntarily torture themselves during the month of November as they attempt to write 50,000 words in thirty days. Did you know that Like Water for Elephants and The Night Circus both began as NaNoWriMo projects?
Confessions of a Sensitivity Reader
You have a great book. You have written an awesome book. And so it happens that you have written, let’s say, a transgender character. They might be the protagonist, or their friend, their lover, their sibling… but you are not trans yourself. You have done research: you’ve read trans activists; you’ve watched them on YouTube, Instagram, or Twitter; you are slightly aware of trans rights are in your area.
Spotlight: Katie DeGilio
Welcome to the Salt and Sage Books Spotlight series! We believe that by honoring each other’s voices, we’re able to turn creativity into community, and change the world through story. In this spotlight series, we welcome you into our creative community by inviting you to meet our editors and expert readers, and to hear a little of their own story, in their own words.
You've Finished a Book!....Now What?
You’ve finished a book! Congratulations! That is a major accomplishment. Take a moment to celebrate! We’ll even do a victory dance with you. *happy dancing* Now what? For most writers, the logical next step is to find an editor. Here are two questions writers often ask when looking for an editor:
Spotlight: David Pena
Welcome to the Salt and Sage Books Spotlight series! We believe that by honoring each other’s voices, we’re able to turn creativity into community, and change the world through story. In this spotlight series, we welcome you into our creative community by inviting you to meet our editors and expert readers, and to hear a little of their own story, in their own words.
Spotlight: Rebecca Blevins
Welcome to the Salt and Sage Books Spotlight series! We believe that by honoring each other’s voices, we’re able to turn creativity into community, and change the world through story. In this spotlight series, we welcome you into our creative community by inviting you to meet our editors and sensitivity/expert readers, and to hear a little of their own story, in their own words.
BOOKS THAT SEE US: I Was Born For This, by Alice Oseman
Books That See Us is an ongoing series of book reviews where Salt and Sage Books editors and sensitivity readers share representation done well. Today, our beloved David Pena reviews Alice Oseman’s I Was Born For This. David Pena Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, David (he/him) is an editor and writer with a background in Psychology who loves books as much as he loves people.
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