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ePIFfunny pays $10 for funny epiphanies. If your submission is chosen as an “ePIFfunny of the Week”, you will also get a free copy of a previously published ePIFfunnies book. If your submission is published in a future ePIFfunnies book, you will receive a free copy of the book.

An ePIFfunny must be funny, clever or insightful, original and based on actual experience. It should be significant, inoffensive and help the reader gain an epiphany

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What is an ePIFfunny?

The dictionary defines an “epiphany” as:

a) a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something;

or

b) an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking.

Or, as James Joyce wrote:

“[An epiphany is] a flash of insight brought on by a trivial incident…It was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.”

Or, one might say, it is when two ideas — or an idea and a perception — come together in a flash of understanding and form a third, new understanding, like two atoms coming together and forming a molecule, giving energy off in the process.

With that in mind, an “ePIFfunny” must meet the following qualifications:

1. It must be based on an actual experience.
2. It must be funny, clever or insightful.
3. It should not be in the form of a “this is the way it is” or “this is the way it should be” lecture. Rather, it must help the reader to gain an “epiphany” or represent an “epiphany” on the part of the writer.
4. It must meet the “So what?” test. In other words, it must be significant.
5. It must not be offensive.
6. It must be original.