Twisted Tournoi 02

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

Twisted Tournoi will be 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 second competition will run 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

Post links to your entry here and tag it twistedtournoi02

Help! I’m new, ignorant, uniformed, yet twisted too. I need to know how to tag my work to enter Twisted Tournoi02. Can you tell me where to find a link for help? Muchas gracias, amigo! JH

Very clear and to the point. Thanks, Micky.
One other question. Where are the submitted stories i need to review. if they are on the front page, then don’t bother to answer this. Thanks again, JH

Hi Jim
they are in this thread… as you can see people are leaving it to the last minute again!
But feel free to dive on in!
Cheers
Micky

The Rat

I hope this works now.. for sure I hope this time!!!

Hi Jim
as the only way to explain the formatting is to write it out and then RB formats it and makes it invisible!!!
The best thing to do is to click this link to the wonderful page by webgrrl

Cheers
Micky

Okay Twisted Tournoi 02 is now closed and Twisted Tournoi 03 is now underway

Congrats all!!! This competition is really bringing out some excellent stories!!

p.s. I vote for Deb!

Congrats Deb!! Well done!!