I’m honored to announce that my micro memoir “Music Box” was selected as an Editor’s Pick for Five Minute Lit’s first Micromemoir Marathon.
The contest ran for twenty-six days in May, inviting writers to submit to one or more of twenty-six prompts, crafting pieces of exactly one hundred words. The prompt “Music Box” made a perfect title for my piece, so I kept it.
You can read “Music Box” here, and the announcement with all of the winners’ bios here.
As always, thank you for reading.
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Elizabeth Maria Naranjo is the author of The Fourth Wall and The House on Linden Way. Her short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in Brevity Magazine, Superstition Review, Fractured Lit, Hunger Mountain, Hospital Drive, The Portland Review, Reservoir Road, Literary Mama, and several other places.
Elizabeth’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Essay, and Best of the Net. She lives in Tempe, Arizona, with her husband and two children.
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