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Flash Contest Results 2020

February 25, 2021 / / 2 Comments

We’re thrilled to announce “The Suicide Hotline Voice Says My Feelings are Normal” by Lisa K. Buchanan is the winner of our Flash Essay Contest judged by Brenda Miller. Thank you to all of the wonderful writers who entered our contest!

On “The Suicide Hotline Voice Says My Feelings are Normal,” Brenda Miller said:

“‘The Suicide Hotline Voice Says My Feelings are Normal’ is a remarkable essay. Shocking, is the word I might use: shocking in the incident it describes, shocking in its vivid imagery, shocking in the way we travel through time in this compressed space. We inhabit this essay with the author, floating with her as we try to fully comprehend what we’ve seen, and wonder how we’ll keep living now.”

RUNNERS UP:
Anneli Matheson, “A Wander Down Dried Seafood Street”
Brent House, “In View”

FINALISTS:
Laurie Uttich, “It’s Friday Afternoon in a Florida Penitentiary”
Jane Satterfield, “Scirroco”

The winner and runners up will be published in Sweet Volume 13 Issue 3.

CNF Submissions

October 1, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Even as I write this from Tampa, it’s difficult to understand that fall has arrived. But it has. Fall is here. And with fall comes our decision to switch up the submissions process here at Sweet. We are once again opening creative nonfiction submissions, but only for the month of October. From October 1st until October 31st at midnight, we will open creative nonfiction submissions. 

We at Sweet do not ask for submissions fees. We believe in emerging and established writers, and we do not wish for you to pay. We believe in work we can chew, taste, and feel long after we swallow. We believe in work that lingers. We want to see everything from experimental to literary journalism—as long as it’s under 1,500 words. Feed us.

-Lauren, CNF editor

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