Stories Due: November 20, 2023
Week Dates: December 4–8, 2023
Story Length: 1,5000-3,000 Words
Submit to: Content@cimsec.org
By Dmitry Filipoff
Fiction has long served as a powerful means for exploring hypotheticals and envisioning alternatives. In annual tradition, CIMSEC will be running a series of short stories looking to explore the nature of conflict and competition through fiction.
Authors can explore the future and flesh out concepts for how potential clashes and warfighting challenges may play out. They can probe the past, and use historical fiction to explore alternative histories. Authors are invited to craft gripping narratives that illuminate the unforeseen and etch realistic detail into today’s visions of future conflict.
Send all submissions to Content@cimsec.org.
Dmitry Filipoff is CIMSEC’s Director of Online Content. Contact him at Content@cimsec.org.
Featured Image: Futuristic warship art generated by Midjourney AI.
Hello,
A Navy veteran here, 1971-1977.
Found your CIMSEC site while doing a search for ‘veteran writing contests’.
Looking over your website, noticing that it is too late to enter this year.
Will CIMSEC have another contest for 2024?
Writing short fiction stories and one novel to date.
William, thank you for your interest. The fiction week is an annual tradition for CIMSEC, with the call for stories usually going up in the fall. Some years it is a contest, some years it is a regular topic week (like this year). We also accept fiction year-round. Feel free to reach out and submit to Content@cimsec.org.
Dmitry, thank you for your reply. I am glad that I ‘stumbled’ onto your CIMSEC site.
As a short story writer, I have been interests in the Pacific Theater of WWII.
Submitting a few of my ideas would be great.
Thank you
William
Hello again,
My thoughts reach out to my first novel titled, ‘All The Oceans’.
A struggle to end illegal fishing in the world’s oceans. With the help of a smart marine biologist and a few whales who ‘talk’ and using military fighting ships.