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Inspirathlon 2024

1/10/24

Welcome to Inspirathlon 2024! This is the main page for our competition. Everything you’ll need to take part is here: competition information, Inspirations and round results. We’ll be keeping this page updated throughout the competition, so check back… 

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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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

OPEN

Autumn '24

one ticket. three rounds.

where will your imagination take you?

round 2 closes:

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spring '24

The Finalists

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

Our full report is here.

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