"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

miniStories, mnartists.org's flash fiction competition and publication series, is looking for your work. There are some really cool judges for this round: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl (senior editor and restaurant critic for Minnesota Monthly), Michael Kimball (author of Dear Everybody), and Dennis Cass (author of Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain).

This is a really good opportunity for local writers to get some free, valuable exposure with not a lot of effort. There really isn't much like this for writers in our region, and mnartists.org really wants this competitive literary series to garner enough interest from local writers to ensure it'll stay around for a long while.

• Any genre is welcome
• 5-500 words
• Open only to Minnesota writers
• Entrants must be registered as an "artist" on mnartists.org
• Deadline is October 1, 2008
• Full details are here.

Send your entries to stories@mnartists.org.