Flash Fiction Competition

Celebrating 200 Years of "Pride and Prejudice"

28 Jan – 25 Feb | Free

28 January 2013 marks the 200^th Anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice. Basingstoke Discovery Centre will be celebrating the date with a series of events and displays in early 2013.

To celebrate this milestone you are invited to write a 200 word ‘Flash Fiction’ Short Story on one of the following themes:

• How I Got Jane Austen’s Autograph

• Pride and Prejudice – An Alternate Ending

• Conversations Overheard at the Double Bennett Wedding

Your story could be based on the novel Pride and Prejudice, your knowledge of Jane Austen or utterly out of the blue – get creative! The author of the story we like best wins a prize!

The winning story will be printed in the Basingstoke Gazette.
It will also be displayed here at The Basingstoke Discovery Centre over Easter.  

• Stories must be a maximum of 200 words.
• Open to writers working, studying or living in Hampshire.
• Entrants must be 16yrs or older.
• Paper entries should be sent to Jess Hanslip at The Basingstoke Discovery Centre, 19/20 Westminster House, Festival Place, Basingstoke, Hants RG 21 7LS including name, address and phone number on the reverse.
• Emailed entries should be sent to jess.hanslip@hants.gov.uk subject heading ‘Jane Austen FFC’ including name, address and phone number.
• Closing date is by close of day on Monday 25 Feb 2013
• The winner and selected entries will be displayed at the Basingstoke Discovery Centre during the Celebration period.
• Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

*Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no single definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as one hundred words, while others consider stories as long as a thousand words to be flash fiction.