flash fiction
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If you win the SmokeLong Quarterly’s flash fiction competition you’ll be $2000 better off! There’s also prize money for other finalists. Prizes: 1st: $2000 + automatic nomination for The Best Small Fictions, the Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net, as well as publication in their 17th-anniversary contest issue in June 2nd: At least $200…
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I don’t know about you, but I love penning a 100-word story. The National Association of Writers and Groups (NAWG) are holding a 100X100 flash fiction competition for stories of exactly 100-words. Here are some details for you: Prize: £100 Entry fee: £3 per entry, or 2 for £5 Closing date: 31st May 2020 If…
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The Bath Flash Fiction Award is open for entries, with a closing date of 16th February 2020. Here are some details for you: Prizes: 1st: £1000 2nd: £300 3rd: £100 Two commendations receive £30 each. Entry fee: £9 for one story, discounts for further stories entered Word limit: 300 For more details, visit the competition…
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Writing Magazine are holding their 500-word flash fiction competition. There’s no theme, so you can choose your subject, but you don’t have long – the closing date is 15th November 2019. Visit the competition page for the rules and to enter. Prizes: 1st place: £200 Runner-up: £50 Entry fees: £6 (£4 for subscribers) ***
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Fancy trying something a bit different? Then why not enter the Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest? The closing date is 2nd November 2019. ‘It should be weird or strange or odd. It can be “Haha!” weird or “Oh, Jesus, no!” weird. It can be genre (sf, fantasy, horror/weird, bizarro, etc.) or it can just be…
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The Writers Bureau are holding their annual flash fiction competition. Entries of up to 500 words are welcomed. The closing date is 30th November 2019. Here are a few more details for you: Prizes: 1st: £300 2nd: £200 3rd: £100 Plus, each prize winner will receive a Writers Bureau course of their choice, worth over…
Esther Chilton 