Escape Pod 641: Flash Fiction Contest Winners
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🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Escape |
| 0:07.0 | Episode, Episode 641. Flash Fiction Contest winners. I'm Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm Vivia, your host for this episode. |
| 0:47.0 | If you're hearing this early enough, you can tune in and watch the Hugo Award Ceremony at 8 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday August 19th. |
| 0:57.0 | Everyone here at Escape Pot is incredibly excited and deeply honored by our nomination and we'll be in the audience |
| 1:04.7 | waiting to see who wins best semi-prosy. This week we bring you the winners |
| 1:12.2 | of the 2018 Flash Fiction Contest as chosen by our listeners and readers. |
| 1:19.0 | All four are Escape Pot originals. Out of 114 entries, the Toastmaster by Kurt Panco took first place. |
| 1:30.6 | The other three winners tied for second place. |
| 1:34.0 | Dollhouse is written by Karen Osbourne. |
| 1:37.4 | Kaju Outside Hope is by Maria Haskins. |
| 1:41.4 | And So Sorry You're Going Extinct is by Paul R Hardy. |
| 1:47.0 | Kurt Panco is a software developer in St. Louis. |
| 1:51.0 | He has a weakness for dad jokes, board games, and stories about time travel. |
| 1:56.3 | He has nothing personal against Toaster Evans. |
| 1:59.5 | His work has previously appeared here in a skate pod as well as daily science fiction and Orson Scott |
| 2:05.7 | Card's Intergalactic Medicine show. |
| 2:08.9 | Karen Osborne lives in Baltimore with two violins and autooharp, four cameras, a husband, and an eccentric orange |
| 2:16.2 | cat. |
| 2:17.6 | She's been a journalist, a wedding videographer, and a Star Fleet Captain, and these days splits her time between a photography studio and working on her first |
| 2:27.4 | dualogy which is forthcoming from Tor books. |
| 2:31.4 | She is a graduate of viable Paradise and the Clarion Writers Workshop. |
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