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Inspirathlon 2024

1/10/24

Welcome to Inspirathlon 2024! This is the main page for our competition, which ended on 10/11. All of our inspirations, judge’s comments, runners-up and our delightful, inspiring winners are gathered together here. 

Autumn '24 newsletter

1/9/24

The carrier pigeons we sent out to deliver our June, July and August newsletters appear to have got lost somewhere. (We think they were just winging it, anyway.) So we’ve had a rethink and decided to gather up our newsletters into bumper seasonal editions instead.

EGG+FROG 2.0

12/7/24

We heard you all out there. We heard you all having fun in the rain, downing your cocktails and ruffling the pages of a paperback under a parasol. We heard you from the basement. Yes, we of little brain have been spending our summer tinkering with a website…

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The Word-Hoard

Our premier selection of curated modern prose and poetry. For the full selection, visit our 

Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones founded Lost Prophet Press in 1992 and published the literary magazines Thin Coyote and Knuckle Merchant: the Journal of Naked Literary Aggression for many years. 

 

He lives with his family, two cats and many dogs in West Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.

“I Ran his bath,

undressed his happy body.

Now I wash his hair,

speak quietly through the screaming.”

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Inspirations #2

Our writers on the whys behind the words.  

Fiction

Pro’s prose.

prismatic

Viewtiful verse. 

Flash

Short. Sweet.

got something for the word-hoard?

our ridiculous writing competitions:

news, rules & results

Autumn '24

three rounds. three inspirations.

Check out the inspirations, judge’s comments and all the rest here.

round 1

round 2

round 3

spring '24

The Finalists

The Top 10 of our first-ever flash fiction competition. Fandabidozi.

Our full report is here.

team results

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Features, experiments, bits & Pieces

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