Flagpole Halloween Short-Short Story Contest

originally published October 10, 2007

What's The Scariest Problem Around? WATER!! So, write a scary story about it!

1000 words dripping with fear, submerged in horror, wet with anxiety, drowning in devilment (graphic stories okay, too*)

First Place: $100

Second Place: $50

Third Place: $25

Honorable Mention: Priceless

Deadline: Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 5 p.m.

Submission: Preferably by email to editor@flagpole.com or by mail or hand delivery to 112 S. Foundry St., Athens, GA 30601

Winners will be published in the Halloween Day Flagpole.

(*The illustration must be made proportionate to a vertical layout of 13.15 inches tall by 4.875 inches wide or a horizontal layout of 6.375 inches tall by 10 inches wide. The artwork can be made in gray tones or in color for reproduction on our website. Submissions can be mailed, hand delivered or emailed. Digital files should be created at 600 dpi at the dimensions listed above. We recommend saving digital files as TIF with LZW compression or JPG for emailing. If the file is too large to email, you may drop off a CD or contact us at for FTP instructions.)