What HOOT did on our summer vacation
Now that everyone is back at school, it would probably be a good time to let you know what we were up to on our summer vacation. HOOT packed their satchels and flew over to the great state of Massachusetts to teach a seminar on writing flash fiction to the brilliant BIMA students studying at […]
Three! It’s a magic number!
From chicken sandwiches to turnips, and everything in between, this month HOOT celebrates its third birthday! YAY!! It’s been three years worth of bite-sized literature brought to you in whimsical ways. And it’s because of your readership that we’ve been able to bring bitty poems and stories to the masses – whether it’s at AWP or […]
Congratulations to our winners!
It was an exceptionally difficult choice but we’ve finally picked our winners from The Avenues Writing Center micro fiction contest. After many hours of reading, re-reading, re-re-reading, deliberation, and re-deliberation our panel of experts (hmmm…sort of experts) has chosen winners. We had so much fun reading the creative gems sent into us by these writers […]
HOOT hosts a Micro Fiction contest for Young Writers at the Avenues Writing Center
To drum up interest in flash fiction among Avenues’ middle school student body, The Avenues Writing Center (in New York) has recently launched a series of flash fiction writing contests for their students. One of these contests will be writing micro-fiction to accompany postcard-sized artwork that the students have created recently. …Postcard-sized? Microfiction? Sound familiar? […]
A blog! A blog! We have an, occasionally updated, blog (we’ll only put the coolest stuff on here, promise)!
Hello HOOT followers, It might surprise you that at HOOT we are comprised of real humans that help create, develop, and mail out your monthly postcard and put up the online edition. We’re alive! We come from all different creative and educational backgrounds, which is a big help in how we pick such diverse literature […]
