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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. 

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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.

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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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Fiction. A Real Stand-Up Guy. Image: a silhouetted comedian sits on a stool in front of an audience. In the foreground, a woman looks at the phone.

Terence Patrick Hughes

Terence Patrick Hughes writes fiction and drama. His theatre work has been developed and produced around the USA and internationally. Born in Lawrence, MA, Hughes lives with his wife and two children in Woodstock, NY

“So I got divorced this year. Any divorcees out there? OK, wow, that’s a large number. Gentlemen, my condolences, and ladies, my apologies, because that was my pick-up line. I’ll see you all after the show.”

Flash. 1210 Days In Eight Minutes, With Playlist, by Karen Walker. Image: a mock-up of a YouTube video on pause. In the video, on the left, we see the silhouette of a 'do not disturb' sign with the title of the story on it. On the right, a pair of women walking arm in arm, one of the women reaching out to press the play button in the middle of the paused video.

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Fiction. Ruminations on High School Biology, by Lisa Vitale. Image: A pair of notebooks covered in doodles of hearts and plants.

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Flash fiction. If We Were In Another Life, by Melanie Mulrooney. Image: A woman dives into a turbulent black sea, while, like a mirror image, an otter swims up to the surface.

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Fiction. The Choices We Make, by Lisa Vitale. Image: A man stands between two windows, holding his chin in contemplation. Through the window to his left, the New York skyline and a man with a dog. Through the window to his right, an elephant and a circus.

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Inspirations: Lara Hurley, Sean Glatch, Philip A. Suggars, Nancy Byrne Iannucci

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Autumn '24

three rounds. three inspirations.

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

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The Finalists

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

Our full report is here.

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Flash fiction. Weather Proverbs Explained, by Ingrid Jendrzejewski. Image: on the left half of the picture is the silhouette profile of a man shouting; on the right is the white silhouette profile of a young woman. In the background, the sun, clouds and the moon, cut into stripes.

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