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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… 

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1/9/24

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Poetry. Cotquean, by Christopher Jones. Image: a pair of boxing gloves suspended from a knitting needle and thread. In the gloves, the silhouette of a man and his son.

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.”

Fiction. Ice Cream, by Harry Dobbs. Image: the silhouette of an ice cream with an American flag stuck in it. Inside the ice cream are silhouettes of a couple and three military jets.

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Fiction. Procrastination Notes, by Matt Gillick. Image: the silhouette of an alarm clock face. Instead of hands is a man. Instead of numbers are images of a laptop, garbage bags, a bottle of sanitiser, a massage table, and a squash.

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

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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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