Submissions are invited for Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon 2023. The last date of submission is September 1, 2023.
Gene Hayworth and Keith Waters founded Owl Canyon Press in 2011, as a forum for new voices in fiction and literature in translation. In the past five years their title list has expanded to include such diverse works as the personal memoir Cloudbreak, California, the music collection.
Writing teams (2 authors per team) are invited to create and submit a pair of short stories consisting of 50 paragraphs.
Owl Canyon Press provides the 1st paragraph and two alternate 50th paragraphs with writing team co-authors taking turns writing a common/shared story from paragraphs 2 through 49 (thus the tag-team handle) and then spinning off two versions using the two alternative 50th paragraphs.
Anybody anywhere in the world, as long as they’re in a 2-writer team and the story is in English.
First prize is $2000, 2nd prize is $1000, and 3rd prize is $500 with the winning short stories published in a short story anthology, as well as an invitation to give a public reading at Inkberry Books in Niwot, CO. The twenty-four (24) Finalists will also have their short stories included in this anthology.
Interested participants can submit online via this link.
The last date of submission is September 1, 2023.
Email: gene[at]owlcanyonpress[dot]com
