The Digital Reader

This is going to be a digital only magazine. They’ll be holding a contest for the best 60 word story. You can submit your entry on their website. Winner will get the Kindle and everyone else  will have given Spectra free content for their next issue.

From the press release:

Spectra Magazine launches on the 1st September across a huge range of digital reading platforms, such as the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Sony eReader, and the iRiver among many others….

As part of this digital publishing adventure, Spectra Magazine is offering a new Amazon Kindle to the winner of its inaugural flash fiction competition. The magazine is scheduled to launch within days of Amazon releasing the highly anticipated redesign of its flagship e-book reader, which will be one of the primary platforms to carry the magazine.

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Entrants are required to submit their flash fiction entries via the Spectra Magazine website no later than September 24th. The competition requires aspiring flash fiction writers to create a new thread on the Spectra forums, and begin their 60 word micro-stories with the opening line:

“A sudden echo from the corridor said this place wasn’t deserted after all.”

The winner will be announced shortly after the deadline, while “the best of the rest” – who don’t win the top prize of the Amazon Kindle – will be published in a special section of the next issue of Spectra Magazine.