Congratulations to the world’s first Flash Fiction Champion, The Prose-Fessor of Pain!

Andrew “The Prose-Fessor of Paine” Miller, beat out nine other contestants in Thursday’s FFC Smackdown! He and Brenda “Alice in Fantasticland” Layman won the preliminary round as crowd favorites and moved on to the finals.
The two finalists were given fifteen minutes to write a two-minute story around a specific modern art exhibit (a golden statue of a foot with a mouth above the ankle). A panel of three judges selected The Prose-Fessor of Pain as the winner.

Andrew “The Prose-Fessor of Pain” took home a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate as well as bragging rights as the world’s first FFC champion. Everyone had a lot of fun with this event, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were an opportunity to challenge his title soon.
Andrew is a freelance writer for a variety of Ohio publications, as well as a featured author in the most recent CCC anthology, Across Town: Stories of Columbus.
All of the contenders did a fantastic job. Thanks to Hannah Stephenson of Paging Columbus for organizing the event at the wonderful OSU Urban Arts Space.
Paging Columbus holds a reading at the OSU UAS on the first Thursday of each month.

Thanks to Mark Layman for the photos!