Everything Else - Jerboa Lit 500: Final week to sign up! March 13-15

Jerboa Lit 500: Final week to sign up! March 13-15

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Topic: Jerboa Lit 500: Final week to sign up! March 13-15

Posted By: JerboaLit
Subject: Jerboa Lit 500: Final week to sign up! March 13-15
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2026 at 9:52pm

Please join us this Friday, March 13th, at 10PM CDT, as we bring you the 4th Jerboa Lit 500 48-hour flash fiction contest!

Registered writers will have all weekend to craft us a story no longer than 500 words based on a prompt consisting of a genre, an item, and a short phrase, drawn from our special Video Hat live on YouTube ( https://youtube.com/@JerboaLit" rel="nofollow - https://youtube.com/@JerboaLit ). We'll email the prompt to all of our registered writers, who will compete for a chance to win part of $2,200 in prizes, including $1,000 for first place!

We have a few different registration tiers for the competition, depending on how much feedback you would like from the judges. $15 will get you basic entry into the contest with no feedback; $25 will get you our standard couple paragraphs of feedback per judge; and $60 will get you a LOT of feedback, perfect for it you plan on editing later, or perhaps expanding your story after the contest into a longer piece!

Registration closes this Friday at 9:50PM CDT, so sign up soon! https://www.jerboalit.com/registration-500" rel="nofollow - https://www.jerboalit.com/registration-500

We can't wait to read what you come up with!

-- Hallie and David, the Jerboa Lit team

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Long ears, short fiction: jerboalit.com

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Posted By: FindingTheWords
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2026 at 10:39pm

Can’t wait! Loved the 250 word one!!

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https://bit.ly/4pvpjJH" rel="nofollow - 250 Micro R1

https://forums.nycmidnight.com/r2gr14romcomsweat-goats-and-hot-air_topic67659.html" rel="nofollow - 250 words R2

Posted By: JerboaLit
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2026 at 12:10am

So glad you had fun!!

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Long ears, short fiction: jerboalit.com