Museum of Words

The museum was inaugurated on 23 November 2009 by the President of Castilla la Mancha region, José María Barreda Fontes. On that day the museum awarded the I Edition of the Flash Fiction Competition, Museum of Words. This date has become the International Day of Words. ==International Flash Fiction Competition==

The Museum of Words organizes every two years the Flash Fiction Competition “Museum of Words", with a first prize of $20,000 for the winner story and three runners up prizes of $2,000 in the other languages categories different from the winner. Writers can enter the competition in Spanish, English, Arabic or Hebrew language, and the stories can only have a maximum of 100 words, making the prize the best equipped per word. There have been already four editions of the contest. In the third edition, 119 countries entered with 22.571 stories, and the Jury was formed by 21 Ambassadors. In the IV Edition of the contest 35.609 stories have been entered the competition, from 149 countries. ==Ambassadors of the Word==

Celebrating the International Day of the Word as Bond of Humankind, and from November 23, 2014, the Museum of the Words honours to writers -whose works promote peace and concord between humans- with the title of Ambassador of the Word. ==References==