ABOUT

You've heard it before. Ah Big Whoopie Deal. Don't care. Couldn't care less. But what IS the Big Whoopie Deal?

BIG WHOOPIE DEAL WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME STATISTICS WITH YOU:
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‍If we're going statistically, we have published 18 fiction pieces, 5 nonfiction and 10 poetry so it looks like fiction has a better shot, but the truth is that we'd like to be publishing an equal amount of all three so really we would love to have tonnes of nonfiction and poetry to publish. Send it to us! But we would hate to discourage fiction, and it does actually look like we're actually more of a fiction publication and your chances are higher with that. So... why not just send us everything that you have and we'll have to somehow come to some sort of balance on whether we could publish a sort of shitty nonfiction piece just because we are desperate to publish a nonfiction piece Vs should we accept this Cormac McCarthy standard of fiction? It's tricky. Is the universe trying to tell us we are a fiction publication or do we break the mold and be a shitty nonfiction one instead? It's more likely that both fiction and nonfiction and poetry just continue to fluctuate in their respective representation in our publication: there will be a day when nonfiction takes the lead. Seems unlikely at the moment but if the publication were to continue indefinitely, it would of course one day statistically have to happen. There's basically no way to know if what you submit will be liked and discussed a little bit but eventually declined or if we read 2 lines of it and puke or if we want to publish it so urgently that we fumble and break a mug. So what IS the Big Whoopie Deal? Submit.

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions are to be made via Submittable:

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
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Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us.

Don't do a squiggly font.

Double space all submissions. If you don't we might call the police.
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WORD COUNTS:

Flash: up to 1000 words.
Short Stories: 1000-4000 words.
Nonfiction: 500-5000 words.
Poetry: 5 poems.

WE MAKE THE RULES TO BREAK THEM SO IGNORE ALL THAT.

PRIZE TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

1. Big Whoopie Deal (BWD) will have the exclusive world rights to publish the winning piece(s) in online form and to represent foreign rights on the author’s behalf. The author will be contracted with a standard agreement.
2. The entry must not be plagiarised and be must not infringe upon the right / copyright of any person / entity.
3. Multiple and simultaneous submissions are permitted.
4. Entries will be taken up until the date of winner announcement.
5. For all current contests, winner(s) will be announced by end of April 2025, and entries will be taken up to 5 days prior.
6. Work can and will be declined at any point prior to the award of the prize / the notification of winner(s).
‍7. The price for entry will be specified on Submittable pages. BWD reserves the right to change this entry price.
8. The prize money is specified on Submittable pages.
9. BWD reserves the right to make multiple offers of publication as well as not to award the prize.
10. BWD reserves the right to vary the rules and conditions of entry and to make any amendments to the published schedule as deemed necessary.

MASTHEAD

EDITORS: Tim Tompson, Suzanne Pearl.