@Marilyn Mai
The GT's Flash Fried Fiction (FFF) short story contest will be publishing the last of its 12 accepted stories this Friday, May 20.
The contest’s top three winners will be announced at a reading ceremony at Punk@Opposite House on June 28 at 6 to 9 pm (20RMB entry, proceeds go to the Dandelion School for migrant children, sorry for the shameless plug!). All top three winners will receive books courtesy of the Bookworm, while the top winner will also receive a 5,000RMB cash prize. All twelve published writers will receive a copy of the Bookworm’s Mala literary journal.
This year’s FFF judges include UK-based literary agent Toby Eady, Hong Kong-based literary translator Harvey Thomlinson and Chinese architect, creative guru and editor of the literary journal Chutzpah Ou Ning. One of the contest’s participating writers drew interest from Mr. Eady, and will potentially be signing with him.
Also the GT article you linked to was written well before the contest’s deadline, and was generally inaccurate in appraising how much interest it garnered from writers. One of the 12 published stories was written by an author previously long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Here’s more recent news of what’s been going on with the contest: http://en.huanqiu.com/beijing/culture/2011-03/640020.html
Contact flashfriedfiction@gmail.com for more info on next year’s contest.