Literary

2017 Shadow Award Results!

Originally posted on The Molotov Cocktail:
We were swept away… …by the tremendous talent we witnessed in the 2017 Shadow Award poetry contest. This contest yielded our highest turnout to date, making competition especially fierce. Once again, brilliant poet Mary Lenoir Bond did the heavy-lifting with the judging process. A huge thanks to Mary for all of…

Literary

Flash Rage

Originally posted on The Molotov Cocktail:
Resistance is in the air lately, and in the case of our Flash Rage contest, it’s made for some great art. This time around we asked for stories of rebellion, revolution, and revenge. You answered that call with one of our strongest contests to date, and the ten stories you’ll…

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Join the Resistance! Enter Flash Rage!

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas Submit to Flash Rage Our namesake projectile may never be more apt than for our next quarterly contest. With the need for resistance and revolution at a fever pitch these days, we want to see some of that energy channeled into striking works […] via… Continue reading Join the Resistance! Enter Flash Rage!

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Latest Molotov Cocktail issue

Issue 7.20 is hot off the press. This go-round features pieces from three first-time contributors, flash fiction that huddles for warmth in a charred apocalyptic wasteland, gets pulled down by a trash-choked river current, and finds tiny alligators crawling out of its barnacle wounds. Less than a month left until our Flash Rage contest soft… Continue reading Latest Molotov Cocktail issue

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Repost from Rejectomancy

The first month of the new year has come and gone, and it was a fairly average submission month for me. I always feel like I should send more submission out, you know, because I totally should, but half a dozen ain’t terrible. Let’s dive in. January 2017 Report Card Submissions Sent: 6 Rejections: 5… Continue reading Repost from Rejectomancy

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Welp, we’re less than 24 hours away from a deranged circus clown taking over the White House. In spite the bleakness of world affairs at the moment, or perhaps because of it, we had a killer crop of imaginative doom-oriented flash fiction to sort through for this contest. We’re always gobsmacked by the creative dark […]… Continue reading