Flash Fiction Competition

Our new quarterly Flash Fiction Writing Prize will be returning SOON.

The deadlines for this prize is midnight (UK time) on the last day of:
February
May
August
November

Your story/stories can be any theme or genre, with a maximum word count of 500 words (not including the title).

You can enter up to THREE stories.

Entry fees: £5 for 1 story | £8 for two | £10 for three.


Prizes

Plus guaranteed publication here on our website, and possible future print anthologies.


The three winning stories from each prize will be published on this website. Future anthologies will also be considered, published by Cranked Anvil Press, in which a selection of short- and long-listed stories from all our writing competitions will be published.

The results will be announced here (and in our social media) within twelve weeks of the deadline date. Please ensure you read our rules for condition of entry. Go to our entry page to pay your entry fee and enter. Good luck! – We look forward to reading your stories. In the meantime, you can read previous winning stories here.


Don’t Forget:

500 maximum
(not including title)

Prize fund of TBC
publication online

Midnight UK time,
last day of Feb, May, Aug, Nov