I'm forever forgetting to plug these, so: every month, I run a little non-prize contest on the Flashfic group. A prompt is given and entrants then have around three weeks to come up with an E/T-rated story inspired by that prompt in no more than 150 words (excluding the title). It must be MLP-related (EqG and movie subjects are fine) and must not be a crossover with non-pony stuff. The winner gets to select the following

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The results of the flashfic contest I blogged about are in!

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This month's prompt is "Where Your Loyalties Lie", and you have until the end of Wednesday (UK time!) to write a 150-word flashfic on that topic and post it to this thread. You'll need to be a member of the Flashfic group, but that's easy enough -- everyone with a Fimfiction account is welcome! There's a link to the full rules in the first post in the linked

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This month's contest has the prompt "Wouldn't be caught dead" and entries will close at midnight UK time at the end of Wed 21 June. If you're not familiar with Flashfic 150, full rules are available from the first post in the link below. In brief, though: write an E/T-rated minific based on the prompt given, taking a maximum of 150 words to do so. The winner gets to choose July's prompt. More here:

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Before anyone gets excited, there are no prizes for these events. Well, not really. Okay, the three people still here, read on!

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Flashfic 150 is a low-pressure, no-actual-prize monthly contest for 150-word SFW flashfics inspired by a specific prompt. Anyone with a Fimfiction account is welcome to compete; just join the Flashfic group.
July prompt: "Crossing Over". Submissions are open until 21st July.

The MOFA is a competition for very short stories of 150 or fewer words each.

In February, the contest's theme was "Bureaucracy." As usual, I had some difficulty picking out a winner.

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This month, it's truer than ever that the MOFA is just an opinion someone had while they were trying to pick a favorite story out of someone else's contest's entries!

I had a lot of trouble picking one favorite. I also had trouble deciding whether I should judge primarily on the basis of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, or on other criteria.

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The December 2021 contest prompt was "It's a Gift!"

After some careful consideration, December's MOFA First Place winner is TheAncientPolitzanian, for "Three Hundred and Thirty-Three."

I remarked to Politzanian:

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A Round of Difficult Choices

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As usual, this month was hard to judge!

A Question of Qualifications

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With a theme of "Just This Once," May 2022 was a good month for the Flashfic contest, with ten stories entered in Loganberry's Flashfic 150 contest (unless I miscounted ), of which nine qualified as MOFA entries. (The difference is because I can't accept my own entry to Loganberry's contest as a MOFA entry.)

MOFA First Place

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About the MOFA Award

Do you like flash fiction? I like very short stories too!

I'd like to run a flash fiction contest, but I don't like to do WORK. Well, sometimes I don't want to.

On the other hand, who doesn't like telling people what to think sharing their opinions with others complimenting other people?

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The January 2022 contest prompt was especially dear to my heart: "Break the Rules!" with an optional challenge of "Write a story that also breaks at least one 'rule' about how to write. Preferably, write a story that isn't made worse by breaking the rule, but instead uses its freedom to good effect."

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This month, it's as true as ever that the MOFA is just an opinion someone had while they were trying to pick a favorite story out of someone else's contest's entries!

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This month, it's as true as ever that the MOFA is just an opinion someone had while they were trying to pick a favorite story out of someone else's contest's entries!

I had a lot of trouble picking one favorite. But finally I selected...

MOFA First Place

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Here's Loganberry's announcement:

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Some pretty big and fun sets of news to share!

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I begin this year with a new mini project. One that I wanted to participate in for more than 2 and a half years already, ever since I saw it first, but could not find the time nor the concentration for, because life was showing its ugliest side to me.

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