To celebrate and promote the launch of my publishing concern, Gibboncore, Twisted Tales will be running an exciting new competition, to run alongside the weekly Star Twister Competition, called Twisted Tournoi.

Twisted Tournoi is a monthly competition for gritty short stories of between 500 and 1500 words and will run throughout 2009.
The story must comply with the Twisted Tales group rules, beyond those rules you are free to write what you want: there is no prompt.

Each competition will have a definite start date and closing date, a link to your story must be posted in the relevant competition thread, the story must be tagged with the relevant competition tag (twistedtournoi01 etc), and you need to give constructive feedback on the other entrants stories.

The current competition runs from Friday the 1st of May until Midnight GMT on Sunday the 31st of May.

At the end of each month I will choose a winner from all of the entrants.

Each monthly winner then gets the chance to submit a story of 3,500 and 4,000 words in length: Gibboncore will publish up to ten of the submissions I like the most in an anthology of short stories, sometime, in 2010.

As I’m running Gibboncore as a business, and will be paying all those whose work I publish royalties, I will only include stories that I personally like; so winning the monthly competition is no guarantee of someone being included in the final publication.

If I am unable to find ten suitable stories from the winners I will choose other authors to make up any shortfall.

Gibboncore’s release schedule is dependant on our revenue stream. You can help us with that by buying one of our existing titles and encouraging your friends, family, and colleagues to do the same!

Gibboncore’s first publication is a collection of my own short stories, Blunt Wound Trauma, which will be available from Amazon and all good bookshops from the 9th of February for £7.99. (Blunt Wound Trauma: Micky McGuinness. Gibboncore. ISBN 978 1 907015 00 7)

Cheers

Micky McGuinness

Back to competition thread

Thank you Alison!

Twisted Tournoi 02 has now closed.

After a tie-break between Joint first:

Alison Pearce with Paradise Road and Deb Cole with The Rat.

Deb Cole came out the winner

Joint second where Zolton with Turn and Jim Hall with Firebug.

Cheers

Micky McGuinness