We are are looking for flash fiction stories with the It’s time to polish that story idea that you had while spending many hours locked at home during COVID-19, realizing ( knowing) that microbiology can help save the world. It’s time to showcase that microbes are mostly for the good (although please, don’t hold back if your story involves infectious diseases, we’d like to read those as well). Microbiology is extremely important for our lives, environment, health, economy, wellbeing, nutrition, and habits. ![]() But what about all the good stuff? What about other perspectives and narratives? Very often, microbiology is the pretext to unleash infection, diseases, and mayhem. We believe that the potential of microbiology-inspired topics in fiction is underappreciated and underdeveloped.We believe that microbiology is the context, pretext, background, or inspiration for many stories – think about Cordyceps fungi zombie apocalypses, Hollywood contagion mystery thrillers (spoiler alert: the chef is the culprit), ten friends telling ten stories while fleeing from the Black Death in 1348 Florence, and many more.The motivation to open a writing competition is dual. Submit your story here Why a writing competition? Update August 2022: Shotlisted and winner stories. ![]() ![]() The theme we have chosen is ‘How Microbiology will Change our Future’ and is open to any perspective, genre, and microbiology topic. The #FEMSmicroBlog is opening a short story writing competition to showcase how microbiology touches our lives.
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