The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine

We haven’t posted an official announcement with the rules and whatnot to this yet, so I figured I’d better before the contest is over and all.

The Broken Mirror Story Event is a story contest in which the participants are given a writing prompt, and they take that prompt and run with it however inspiration strikes them. Then the stories are read by our judges, and the top stories are produced as episodes of The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. The fun of the event is getting to see how different all the takes on the same idea can be.

This years prompt is:

A phone rings in the middle of the night. The voice on the line says only one word…but it is enough.

And scene. I mean, sorry, not scene. And go! Start writing. You have until January 12, 2012 to write your story and submit it to submissions at dunesteef dot com. Also, we like to publish all the losing entries on our site in text format, so that those of us who aren’t judges can see them, and get that same fun experience that the judges got. This is not mandatory, and you may opt out of this. There’s always somebody every year who doesn’t want to participate in that part, but if you’d like to have your story published along with the rest, then folks can come to read the lot, and see where all the different takes went. Here are the stories from last year, and these are the stories from the year before. Check them out.

Thanks for participating, and get writing!

SonnySee put this absolutely awesome trailer together for the BMSE 2011. It was a must share.

Rish and Big don’t have a story for you this week, but they do have an announcement. That’s right, the 2011 Broken Mirror Story Event is about to begin. Let’s listen in and find out what this year’s premise will be, shall we?

Right click HERE to download the episode, select Save Link As, and save the file to your hard drive.

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The Way Is Shut

Sorry, Charlie, the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine is closing submissions until 2012. It’s the holiday season, and to make the season bright, we’re giving our submissions editor and slush readers some time off. We’d like to thank all our readers and co-editors, and hope to give them a few weeks to catch up on stories and catch up on some Z’s. If you’ve sent us a story in the recent past, and we haven’t responded about it, just be patient with us. We will respond to it eventually, we promise.

Hold on to your potatoes, however. We’re not quite done with 2011 yet. At least possibly not.