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Short Story Smash - New and Improved!

New! Stories with up to 500 words to be presented.

Short Story Smash is for flash fiction. Original and published works will be considered. Well-dressed rhetoricians with enviable elocution will read your fabulous story(ies) to a rapt audience. Submissions will be considered anytime up to August 01. Don’t procrastinate as the early worm catches the bird. The editorial staff reserves the right to choose and present stories. A special prize will be awarded to the winning submission that is exactly 100 words long.

Lastly, edit your work. Edit again. Re-edit. Have someone else read it. Simplify, be empathic, eschew obfuscation—if we don’t understand it, it might not get read onstage. Send no more than three (3) submissions as .doc or .docx files to Chris Spencer. 

$20 | All Seats

Earlier Event: August 9
Casting Call
Later Event: August 13
In Another Light

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.