From Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, submissions will be taken for the Third Annual Micro Award. The Micro Award is a competition for fiction not over 1000 words. The present award will be for works published in 2009. Editors may submit two stories and anyone else may submit one. This year, self-published stories are eligible and the prize for the winning story is $100. Rules and submission information are posted at the Micro Award Official Website.

Bruce Holland Rogers won the first Micro Award for his story, "Reconstruction Work," published here at Flash Fiction Online.