The Binnacle’s Annual International Ultra-Short Competition features the best works of narrative fiction and poetry of 150 words or fewer. Submissions are typically received from six continents and a couple dozen countries. From these hundreds of submissions fifty to sixty works are chosen for the annual edition, and among these a few receive cash prizes. Submissions are accepted each year via e-mail at ummbinnacle@maine.edu between December 1 and March 15. Notifications are made in early June. The publication is completed several months later. For more information, please visit The University of Maine at Machias at http://binnacle.machias.edu/.
This volume contains works by Caroline Michalicki, Caitlyn Byrne, Beth Cooley, K. S. Dearsley, Jon Alston, Marsha Barber, Greg Beatty, Bill Bibo Jr, Jessica Blackshaw, AN Block, Eman Bouras, Mara Buck, Sarah Carleton, Lisa Ricard Claro, Kathleen Clauson, Terry Cobb, SuzAnne C. Cole, Charlie Coleman, Alison Colvin, Lucia Damacela, Barry Claude Dearborn, Glen Donaldson, Christina Woś Donnelly, Alex Dreppec, Catherine Edmunds, Peter Fox, T’Mara Goodsell, Tracy L. Grimaldi, Sid Gustafson, Jules Jacob, Nadia Jacobson, Tim Johnson, Gerald Kamens, Gloria Keeley, Keely Kiczenski, John Laue, Clyde Liffey, Norma West Linder, R.F. Marazas, August 1961 – Clare Marsh, Teresa Del Mastro, Doug Mathewson, Ellen Birkett Morris, Wilda Morris, Rebecca Muchow, Jefferson Navicky, Kathleen Riley, Jacqueline Seewald, Maureen Sherbondy, Caroline Todd, Gonzalo Tovilla, Donna L. Turello, Paul Weidknecht, and Olga Wojtas.
