With all our new followers, it's time to flashback to why we held our first Flash Fiction Contest! On June 7th 2016, Story Seed Vault celebrated our first month on Earth. I was astonished to see that we had managed to reach almost every continent on Earth... except Antarctica.
Not content with half measures, we decided to see if our site could be read from Antarctica. We reached out to @AusAntarctic & they agreed to pass on our request to their colleagues.
Less than a week later, success! Story Seed Vault had now been read on every continent on Earth.
To thank the Australian Antarctic Division for their contribution to science and to celebrate virtually reaching Antarctica, Story Seed Vault held our first 48 Hour Flash Fiction Contest, judged by two Antarctic expeditioners from the @AusAntarctic Division!
We were honored to receive submissions from writers who took the initiative & researched Antarctica.
These competitions are now an important part of our #scicomm! To read the winning stories, go to our site: storyseedvault.com/tag/antarctica/
