Annual Flash Fiction Contest
The Pikes Peak Branch of the National League of American Pen Women Inc. sponsors an annual flash fiction contest. This national contest challenges authors to "tell a story" using only one hundred words. This year's creative submissions came from around the country.
Our Judges
Nancy Bentley: Nancy Bentley is the author of board books, a picture book, a series of non-fiction books on genre writing, journalism, playwriting, and video production for children. Her picture book I’ve Got Your Nose! was a Junior Library Guild Selection in 1992. Her early reader mystery series: Nick Anderson, N.I. Nature Investigator, (The Case of the Sneaky Stinger, The Case of the Garden Monster (Winner of the 2004 Colorado Author’s League Book Length Children’s Fiction) and The Case of the Missing Bluebirds) was published with the Scholastic Book Club. Her latest book: Plagiarism Free-Reports is available through Enslow Publishing.
Her adult publications include essays with The Christian Science Monitor and The Gazette.
She is a former teacher, library media specialist and coordinator of information and technology. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Author’s Guild, the Colorado Authors’ League, the Colorado Association of Libraries, and the National League of American Pen Women. Her video, The Making of a Storybook: Mary Calhoun, Storyteller was presented at the 1992 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.
Cynthia (Cindi) Carroll: Cindi is the is the author of Where Did the May Go?, a children’s book that was marketed in schools in all the English-speaking countries. She has also written several personal essays for Venture Inward Magazine.
Over the years she has taught third and fourth grades and has given lessons on flute and piano. She is a member of the Pikes Peak Writers and is presently working on a novel: The House on Marquette.
Carol Caverly: is the author of the Thea Barlow Wyoming mystery series, All the Old Lions, Frogskin and Muttonfat, and Dead in Hog Heaven. Her books were local best sellers and selections of the Detective Book Club. Her latest short story is included in the anthology, Homicide Host Presents.
Carol is a letters member of National League of American Pen Women Inc. She was a founding member and past president of Wyoming Writers, as well as a founding and current member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. She was elected chapter president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, serving on the national board, and is a long-standing member of the MWA, Sisters in Crime, and Pikes Peak Writers. For many years she has served as a judge for PPW and RMFW writing contests, presented a wide variety of programs at local and national writing conferences and been a member of the editorial boards for two short story anthologies.
Our Critiquers
Doris Dembosky: A former journalist/columnist and college instructor at Pueblo Community College, Doris primarily writes essays, poetry and short fiction. In 2011 her poetry was published in The Pen Woman magazine and in From the Heart, an anthology on parenting edited by Beth Davis.Recently she has focused on flash fiction. This year her work has appeared regularly on 52/250 Flash, an on-line competition in which writers wrote 250 words weekly to a given theme. This past November, Pure Slush, Volume 1 published her non-fiction essay, "Nice Girls," in an anthology of fiction and non-fiction on the theme "slut."
Carol Caverly: See above under “Our Judges” for Carol’s full bio.
Last modified: December 5, 2011