Formula 500: Fathers Day
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Competition Details
We started with the short story, and now we’re moving onto the micro-story. The Shortbread Formula 500 is a competition where anything up to 500 words is your limit, so you have to ‘make every frame a Rembrandt’.With Father's Day just around the corner, this Formula 500 Competition, is dedicated to Fathers from all around the world. ShortbreadStories HQ wants to read your tales of Fatherly love written in less than 500 words.The winning story will be sent around our 6,000 plus Friday Story mailing list, and what could possible make a better Father's Day gift than that?!
Formula 500: Fathers Day
Published 11 months ago
We started with the short story, and now we’re moving onto the micro-story. The Shortbread Formula 500 is a competition where anything up to 500 words is your limit, so you have to ‘make every frame a Rembrandt’, as was the saying of film cameramen of old when describing the shooting of television adverts. This is a style of writing you can do anywhere, anytime – during your lunch break, in a bus or a train, or even stuck in one of those endless traffic jams. Choose your subject, choose your title, choose your plot – a beginning, middle, and end.
Shortbread wants to encourage everyone to have a go – writers and readers of all ages - so now is the time to tune up your creative engine, psyche yourself up and hit that blank page at speed.
With Father's Day just around the corner, this Formula 500 Competition, is dedicated to Fathers from all around the world. ShortbreadStories HQ wants to read your tales of Fatherly love written in less than 500 words.The winning story will be sent around our 6,000 plus Friday Story mailing list, and what could possible make a better Father's Day gift than that?!
As this competiton will judged by the community be sure to vote for your favourite before the 4th of July.
Short Story Entries
| Competition Entry | Length | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read J.L.A. A Short Memoir. by Richard Ardus | 498 |
| 2 | Read My Dad Doesn't Play In… by Andy Bottomley | 449 |
| 4 | Read Harry by Diane Dickson | 331 |
| 5 | Read The Call by Lorna Fraser | 495 |
| 6 | Read My Dad's Lullaby by Meg Malpass | 449 |
| 7 | Read Growing Short Of Hair by Fran Strahan | 416 |
| 8 | Read Flesh Wound by Andrew Campbell-kearsey | 484 |
| 9 | Read Jessica's Dreams. by James McEwan | 507 |
| 10 | Read Pear Tree by Winifred Marzella | 487 |
| Read Spit And Polish by Jay Leffew | 284 | |
| Read His Fathers Passing by Fran Strahan | 423 | |
| Read It Started With A Kiss by Diane Dickson | 399 | |
| Read Thinking Of You Dad by Pamela Griffiths | 495 | |
| Read Some Kind Of Hero by Willie Douglas | 495 | |
| Read Dan The Dad by Peter Hanlon | 493 | |
| Read Travelling Alone by Drew Payne | 451 | |
| Read Father's Day by Winifred Marzella | 477 | |
| Read Buster by Jay Leffew | 415 |