Mosaic Now Available: Best of the 1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction 2022 Competition
MOSAIC: The Best of the 1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction 2022 Competition is now available as an ebook. This collection of brilliant, funny, and heartbreakng tales will benefit The Doorstop Library, a community-focused charity dedicated to bringing the gift of books and the joy of reading directly into the homes of children across London who need support.
Buy your copy on Amazon via the links below, or search “MOSAIC, TL;DR” on your country’s Amazon site!
Thank you to our contributing winners of this collection:
1st: For Infinity by Catherine Ogston
2nd: Bitter sweet by Hannah Brown
3rd: Queen of Poisons by Leila Murton Poole
4th: The Model Home by Laura Fasy
5th: Anything Untethered Could Soar by Emily Roth
6th: Sisters by Mary Lawton
7th: Afterbirth by Janna Miller
8th: The Solitude That Bent My Soul by Talia Camozzi
9th: Reidichi by Megan Paonessa
10th: Glass Animals by Josephine Queen
11th: Shore Leave by C.W. Kinsey
12th: Life Within A Dormant Bough by Nina Inamdar
13th: I Can’t Hide You by Katie Battaglia Delay
14th: Chasing an Earthquake by Regan Puckett
15th: The Unfortunate Tale of Miriam Mitchell, Peking Duck and Bela Lugosi by Sharon Kretschmer
16th: Archive Transcript: Session 1, Jacobs Residence, 14th May 2021 by Sarah McPherson
17th: Jessica’s Journey by Linda McMullen
18th: Soar Away and Never Sigh by Katie Conrad
19th: RÊVERIE by Corrie Haldane
20th: To Teach Myself to Fly by MM Schreier
21st: Saint Pat’s Lament by Martin Costello
22nd: The Red Scarf by Jonathan Haigh
23rd: The Great Wheel of Destiny by Madeleine Pelletier
24th: Tarot: The Fool’s Journey by Wai Chan
25th: Good Habits by Helen MacDonald
How we got here
We began in March 2022 with a call to writers to enter our third annual 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, the Doorstep Library. Plus, participants seemed to have a great time last year and we loved making it happen!
This year we added an additional two judges, bringing our total up to six judges selected from TL;DR Press’s founders and editors, as well as the all-powerful Overseer to manage contact with our entrants, assign all of the stories, and generally make sure everything ran smoothly.
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 25 favourites would be an understatement. Had we the budget, we could easily have made a great collection with twice the amount of winners. So many of the entrants delivered wonderful and innovative ideas from across the genres and styles, and built on their prompts in ways that we couldn’t have imagined. It was an inspirational month and a half of judging, and we couldn’t be more grateful to all the writers who competed!
Our judges read all of the stories that we received, wrote detailed feedback to every entry, and compiled our shortlist of 25 stories. All stories were kept anonymous to the judges until after we locked in the winning stories.
Making sure that everyone who entered the competition got useful, detailed feedback was incredibly important to us. This year, we produced a total of 32828 words of feedback for our entrants!
We were extremely pleased to announce Catherine Ogston’s story, For Infinity, as our winner in July. Check out their 1st place story for free as a sneak peek here!.
We want to thank the wonderful #tldrwriters and #1KWHC communities for your stories and support while we read your work and selected our winners. This collection is the work of hundreds of hours, and we’re so pleased to share 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!
Hannah Hulbert, Mia Moss, Jenna Harvie, Joe Butler, Penfold, and Callum Colback.
Thank you to our Overseer and Head of Production!
Alex Laurel Lanz
Thank you to our Cover Illustrator!
Joe Butler
How to support our release:
- Buy our collection in eBook! US | Canada | UK
- Retweet our big news and tag @TLDRpress!
- Share with your friends, family, and followers in person or online.
- Rate and review our collection on Amazon.
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