Welcome to Abbey Hill Literary

We are excited to welcome our 3rd Quarter 2010 judge, Mr. David Boyle, whose work has been published in books and magazines and at various websites.  His first book, Blood Works, (Arctic Wolf Publishing) features a collection of nine dark tales.  David’s catalog is diverse: short stories, essays, articles, aphorisms, and poetry.  In 2008 one of his stories, “Blindsided,” was made into a short film by Jack Action Films and premiered at the Small Town Film Festival in Canada; it can be seen at reelconnect.com.

Over the years David has enjoyed the privilege of being a guest speaker at New Jersey libraries, where he discusses the joys of writing and inspires others to exercise their imagination through the written word.  In October 2010 he will be a creative writing instructor for the Morris Hills School of Adult and Continuing Education in Morris County, New Jersey.  At his Myspace page David has created a program called Every Word Counts to help unpublished writers. Fans can learn more about David Boyle by visiting his website: www.myspace.com/davidbfear.

AHLiterary.com is a fun and challenging place for short fiction writers of all stripes and kinds -- beginning, experienced, and everyone in between.  We welcome most genres of short fiction, written in English and up to 1,500 words, for our Quick Lit contest, from both domestic and international writers.

What do we do here? It would be easy to say, "We offer short story contests that invite, reward and publish exceptional short fiction."

Great, but where’s the challenge? Many writers have short stories stowed away that have already won prizes, or been singled out for other recognition, that can be dusted off and sent sailing across the Web and BAM! That excellent story wins yet another well deserved prize.

At Abbey Hill Literary we certainly respect and honor those stories, however, we’d like to challenge you to stretch your imagination and skills to produce new, original, never before published (or recognized) short fiction works, and reward them accordingly.

Click here to discover how.

Critiques are again available this quarter!  Please review the Prize List under the Quick Lit Challenge link for more information regarding critiques for submitted stories.  In addition, if an author wishes to have a short story critiqued that is NOT a contest entry, this service is available for stories up to 5,000 words.  Please send an e-mail to editor@ahliterary.com for additional information.

Please note: There will not be a Flash Fiction contest this quarter.

Be sure to click on the Current Winners link to also read the exciting work of past winners, and enjoy their creativity, talent, and altogether original ways of approaching previous writing challenges.