Endless Pictures Now Available: Best of the 1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction Competition eBook
Endless Pictures: The Best of the 1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction Competition. A collection to benefit First Story, England’s leading creative writing charity for young people.
Endless Pictures, our eighth charity collection to date, is now available as an eBook to benefit First Story! Buy your copy now for 20 winning stories to help fund high-quality creative writing opportunities for young people in schools in low-income communities.
Buy your copy on Amazon now, or search “Endless Pictures TL;DR” on your country’s Amazon site!
How we got here
We began in March with a call to writers to enter our first flash fiction competition: The 1,000 Word Herd Flash fiction Competition. We chose a competition to help support our non-profit Press financially, showcase some wonderful writers, and to help fund our charity of choice, First Story.
We knew the response would be huge, so our editorial team consisted of four judges, one Overseer, and three incredible guest judges to rank the top 10 and provide additional feedback. Thank you to Scarlett Thomas, Stephanie Victoire, and Dan White for guest judging!
We received 122 flash fiction pieces to judge at the end of the competition week. We were utterly blown away by the quality of the submissions to the competition! To say that it was incredibly difficult to narrow down our top 20 favourites would be an understatement. So many delivered wonderful and innovative ideas from across the genres and styles and built on their prompts in ways that we couldn’t have imagined.
Our internal judges worked throughout April, reading all of the stories that we received, writing our feedback to every entry, and compiling our shortlist of 20 stories. We then sent our top ten winners to the guest judges and waited with bated breath for them to give us their verdicts.
We were extremely pleased to announce that Rob McIvor’s story, Children of the Moon as our winner in May. Read his 1st place flash fiction story here for free!
Thank you to our contributing winners of this collection!
Rob McIvor, Laura A. Pike, Kat Veldt, Alex Woodroe, Regan Puckett, Katie Conrad, Caroline Barnard-Smith, Myna Chang, Charlie Rogers, Diana Brown, Jim Horlock, Madeleine Pelletier, Lauren Barker, M.M. Schreier, Janna Miller, Hannah Hulbert, Alexandra Otto, Stefan Sokoloski, Chrissie Rohrman and Emily Roth!
We want to thank the wonderful #tldrwriters community for your stories and support while we selected our winners. This collection is the work of hundreds of hours, and we can’t wait to share it with the world.
Thank you to everyone who entered the competition for your wonderful stories. We sincerely hope you enjoyed being a part of this project.
Thank you to our judges!
Sarah Linders, Joe Butler, Penfold, and Callum Colback.
Thank you to our guest judges!
Dan White, Stephanie Victoire, and Scarlett Thomas.
Thank you to our Overseer!
Alex Hareland
Thank you to our cover illustrator!
Joe Butler
Thank you to our head of production!
Alex Hareland
How to support our release
1. Buy our collection as an eBook! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BWN7YKW
2. Retweet our big news and tag @TLDRpress!
3. Share with your friends, family, and followers in person or online.
4. Rate and review our collection on Amazon.
Watch out for more news in the coming weeks about our next call for submissions, as well as workshops, resources, Teal Deer Open Mic Nights, and more! Want to stay in the loop? Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, subscribe to our newsletter, and join our Slack writing group.