Travel to the Rodeo

Howdy Folks! Yep…it’s time once again to saddle up, polish your boots and grab your pen too: the Rodeo is back! Five, 99 word flash fiction contests, each with a unique prompt, running weekly through October at Carrot Ranch.

Open to all, no entry fee and a cash prize for the winner.

Thrilled to lead my contest, ‘Travel with a Twist’, which opens October 17.

Details of this, my fellow judges and every contest, including Lead Buckaroo Charli Mill’s TUFF (The Ultimate Flash Fiction), a free-write challenge remaining for September 25, posted below.

I’ll re-blog each contest’s opening day here at the Summerhouse.

So watch this space, pack your bags and get ready to Travel to the Rodeo…with a twist, of course.

Carrot Ranch Literary Community

Sherri Matthews has kept her feet in the stirrups at Carrot Ranch while riding hard to revise her memoir. She’s one of our premier memoir writers who also pens a hapless village werewolf character who first debuted here in flash fiction. Her fiction can turn a dark twist as deftly as a rodeo bronc.

This year, Sherri seeks inspiration from travel. It’s not her first rodeo, so as a leader she’s going to shake up her event. Her husband Mike Matthews and friend and fellow writer, Hugh Roberts, joins her in the judging. Here’s what she has to tell you to prepare for her event.

Rodeo #3: Travel with a Twist
By Sherri Matthews

In July, I had the good fortune to spend a week’s holiday with my husband on the Italian Amalfi Coast. I say good fortune, because hubby won it, thanks to a random prize draw. We couldn’t…

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About Sherri Matthews

Sherri is a writer with work published in print magazines, anthologies and online. As a young British mum of three, she emigrated to California and stayed for twenty years. Today she lives in England's West Country, a full-time carer within her family. Her current WIP after completing her memoir is a psychological thriller.

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