CONTEST | Planet Scumm's "NanoSlimo" Short Fiction Contest

OH BABY! WE’RE RUNNING ANOTHER TWEET CONTEST, AND SWEET, SUCCULENT MERCH IS ON THE LINE

The gooey gourmands at Planet Scumm developed a taste for short-short fiction after our last tweet contest, so we’re doing it again, and YOU CAN’T STOP US. This time around your theme is #NaNoSliMo. Tweet @planetscumm with 280 characters or fewer of science fiction gravy. Don’t send us just any ol’ story, though—you need to riff on one of the following #NaNoSliMo categories. 

#Deadline: Ticking clocks, desperate races, and last-chance opportunities.

#Research: Taking a closer look at the unfamiliar or unknown. Maybe too close? Maybe too close. 

#Doubt: "Gosh, Professor Marvel. There's just no way I can get a tweet ready in time for #NaNoSliMo!" 

Tag your entries with #NaNoSliMo and a #Hashtag corresponding to one of those categories. Without the appropriate metadata, the computronic brain that runs our Twitter account will get confused. And if it gets confused, it gets horny on main won’t be able to send out prizes to our winners! 

That’s right—we’re going to pick a winner for each category, one of whom will also be our overall winner. Every category winner gets one of our new, remixed copies of Planet Scumm Issue #5, “Human Resources,” and our overall winner gets a b-b-b-big bundle of scummy science fiction and other assorted goodies. 

So get to tweetin’ you bloody-eyed nano-writers! @planetscumm—that’s us. You’ve got from today until Jay-Z’s birthday (12/4/2019).

And if you were wondering: Yes, just submitting to this contest counts as hitting the 50,000-word goal for NaNoWriMo. If anyone asks, say “Yeah, I did NanoSliMo!” Just… say it fast. Maybe a little quieter, too. Helps if you fake a cough during the “SliMo” part.