New Story: For Art’s Sake Accepted by Word Riot!

Huzzah!!

My flash fiction work, For Art’s Sake, has just been accepted by Kevin O’Cuinn, fiction editor at Word Riot.

This is a new milestone for me, a third piece of flash being pubbed in the same journal: Woo Hoo! (Deep endebted thankfulness to Kevin, as always.)

The pub date has not yet been determined but when it’s published I’ll let you all know with a joyous announcement and link for your reading pleasure. For now, a placeholder will go on the Published Stories page…

Thanks!

New Story: Recyclables Now Live on Pure Slush!

Hi everyone,

I’m so excited! Matt Potter, Editor of Pure Slush, (a literary journal based in Australia) has sent the good word over the wires. My story Recyclables is now live on the Pure Slush website, within this month’s theme issue “The Office.”

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CLICK HERE to read this new piece of flash fiction!

http://pureslush.webs.com/recyclables.htm

Matt has asked me to let readers know there is a comments feature on the site. All comments posted to the story will become part of its history…so, write on people! Feel free to leave a comment if you like.

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As I usually do a permanent link to this story will always be available on my Published Stories page so you can easily find it, and my “back catalogue.”

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Special Free Bonus! Pure Slush also publishes the Hue Questionnaire. It’s a “what’s your favorite color” on steroids, or in my case…maybe asteroids. Curious?

Click here and navigate to my name to read my answers:

http://pureslush.webs.com/authorsd.htm#903144735

ENJOY!

The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest

Normally I do not pay attention to short story contests. However, The Kenyon Review has just opened their electronic submissions link today, Feb 1st for anyone who wishes to enter their short fiction contest and they do not charge a reading or entry fee.

What I love about this contest is that it skews towards flash fiction writing, with an upper limit of 1200 words.

All you talented flash fiction writers who read my blog regularly… please consider clicking on the link below and submitting your best work to The Kenyon Review. You will have until Feb 28th to submit.

GOOD LUCK!

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LINK TO THE CONTEST INFO: http://www.kenyonreview.org/contests/short-fiction/

LINK TO SUBMITTABLE SUBMISSION FORM FOR CONTEST:

https://thekenyonreview.submittable.com/submit/79fe80e3-391a-4c22-acff-9d050998f81d

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Information about the contest:

The contest is open to all writers who have not yet published a book of fiction. Submissions must be 1200 words or fewer. There is no entry fee.

Katharine Weber, the Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing at Kenyon College and author of five critically-acclaimed novels, including Triangle and True Confections, will be the final judge.

The Kenyon Review will publish the winning short story in the Winter 2014 issue, and the author will be awarded a scholarship to attend the 2013 Writers Workshop, June 15th-22nd, in Gambier, Ohio.

New Story Accepted by Pure Slush!

Hi everybody,

Great news has come in over the wires from Matt Potter, editor of Pure Slush. He’s accepted a flash fiction piece called Recyclables for his February issue, with a theme of “the office.”

As usual, I will post an announcement and link when it goes live.

Thanks!

Carol

Nominated for a Micro-Award

I would like to extend my kind thanks to Blink-Ink editor Doug Mathewson for nominating my pair of 50 word flash pieces: Mother, A True Story; Father, a Lie for the 2013 Micro-Awards.

I share the honor with author and fellow nominee Sharon Coleman for her piece Foreign.

Both of our works appeared in Blink-Ink’s (printed) Issue 12 this year.

The Micro-Award, http://www.microaward.org/, is a literary prize given for a flash fiction piece under 1000 words. The award was created in 2008. Winners are scheduled to be announced on March 17, 2013.

New Story Published! Stuff I Buy Online – at Atticus Review

Hi everyone, I hope you all have an amazing Thanksgiving tomorrow!

NEW STORY PUBLISHED

Today, Atticus Review published a story of mine, a piece of flash fiction called Stuff I Buy Online, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

All love traffic is welcome at this link http://atticusreview.org/stuff-i-buy-online/

Any comments you may have about this tongue-in-cheek piece can be made directly at the Atticus site, or if you want to put them here, please feel free. And don’t forget the root beer.

As always, a permanent link to this story will be made available to you on my Published Stories page.

(If you haven’t checked out any of my 20+ previously published works, why not check a few out now, while the turkey is in the oven?)

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In other news…

ANOTHER STORY ACCEPTED

The editors at failbetter.com have decided that a flash fiction piece I submitted to them shall be published by them, at some point in the future. The fine folks at failbetter.com will let me know when the piece is ready for the public, until then stay posted!

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Finally…

No, I haven’t forgotten that I still owe you, loyal readers, part 2 of my Hurricane Sandy story. I’m working on it, and plan to publish it … well, soon. Thanks for your patience.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Flash Fiction: Stench

 Stench

It came out of her slippery with blood, a wizened old man’s face with a peanut body. It wailed through the afternoon no matter how much bourbon she fed it from the drip tube. The force of the lungs would not cease, some monstrous thing calling its still unborn sisters and brothers. She swaddled it in an electric blanket to bake the stench away.

Flash Fiction: Einstein’s Hair

 Einstein’s Hair

Einstein’s hair crawled over the Princeton dirt towards the library. Physics wasn’t the point. A cataclysm happened billions of years ago and sent its light to earth. Space dust formed each frizzled follicle and tweed jacket spiraling around in a galaxy of random ideas. It equaled more than the man, less than the cosmos and formed the future.

Story Up at Dogzplot!

Hi everyone, I have a new flash fiction piece, Lemon Poppy Seed Cake, up at Dogzplot thanks to guest editor Jesse Eagle. Thanks Jesse!

This new work pushes on some boundaries for me, and it was good to feel “out there” with a piece, which had something to say (although you, dear reader, will be the judge of that.)

All love traffic can go to the following link, please:

http://dogzplot.blogspot.com/2012/06/lemon-poppy-seed-cake-carol-deminski.html

Please DO check out the rest of the issue too, because my friend Word Riot fiction editor, Kevin O’Cuinn has a story in it. This is a wonderful coincidence because last year Kev and I both had stories appear in the December 2011 issue. (I consider Kevin to be a personal good luck charm!)

Enjoy!

New Story Accepted by Dogzplot!

April has been a fortuitous month for me, and I’m proud to announce a second piece of my work will appear in Dogzplot.

The flash piece, 200 words as per Dogzplot’s submission guidelines, is called Lemon Poppy Seed Cake. It’s different than other pieces I’ve written, a new direction in my work I’m enjoying.

As soon as the issue of Dogzplot is released I’ll publish the link.

Flash Fiction: A Newfoundland State of Mind

I read The Shipping News by Annie Proulx and hated it. I thought Newfoundland couldn’t be like that, especially the people.

I looked into it, Newfoundland.

They’ve got a lot of different berries growing there, maybe fifteen varieties. Ones you never heard of, all over the island in Summer. Amazing. Why those types of berries, and only there? A kind of fruit mystery.

Gros Morne is a park on the Western edge, the farthest reaches of a land with a skimpy population. A lot of moose and bears live there too. There must be many different animals in the wild reaches of the land, but a moose could come through your backyard any day of the week.

Everything’s simple when it’s down to survival. What’s to eat? Can I sleep here? I don’t want a bear to visit. I’m cold; I need a fire. It would be like that, I think.

I’ve never been to Newfoundland. I’ve been infected by its spirit. I dream about living there, alone in a cottage overlooking the sea. I imagine I could stay there for years.

One day, I’d get in a boat and row from there to Labrador. If there aren’t many people in Newfoundland, I’d reason, there are fewer in Labrador. After being in Newfoundland for what would feel like too long, I’d assume life would be easier in Labrador. Brutal, but easy.

New Story Accepted by Word Riot!

Word Riot, people. WORD RIOT.

I’m pinching myself…walking around in a daze. I feel elated.

Word Riot’s Fiction Editor, Kevin O’Cuinn, has provided crucial support and encouragement. Without him, this achievement would not be possible.

Kevin has been patient with my submissions (there have been many) and he’s provided the kind of tough-love all writers need from great editors. His guidance – and scalpel cuts – have been a master class in editing. I do my best to use his lessons on each new piece of fiction I craft.

All I can say is editor, friend and trusted mentor only begin to describe how highly I think of him.

The piece Word Riot accepted is called Flame. It’s a flash fiction work, and as soon as I find out which issue it will appear in, I will let you all know.