News Extending our Flash Fiction special offer 6 Jun 2022 The cost of living crisis... Everyone is talking about it, and everyone is affected by it. Individuals, families, businesses. (We are no exception: the cost of producing our upcoming print…
Miscellany… Saboteur Awards 2022 – vote for Cranked Anvil now! 10 Mar 202216 Apr 2022 The brilliant Saboteur Awards - from Sabotage Reviews - are now open for voting. Their 2022 Awards Festival ticket sales are now live, and you can find out all the…
News Our Flash Fiction competition prize money has INCREASED! 3 Mar 202223 Jun 2022 Every writer wants to get more money for their writing efforts, right? Well now you can with us here at Cranked Anvil! We've been running our flash fiction competition for…
News The Cranked Anvil writing competitions just got better! 3 Mar 20226 Jun 2022 Hello Writers! First of all, Happy World Book Day 2022! We hope that, like us, you'll be setting aside just a bit of time today to read a bit of…
Flash Lists & Winners November 2020 – Flash shortlist and winners 18 Jan 202115 Mar 2021 Our first flash fiction competition attracted a huge number of entries, and it has taken longer than ever for the judges to chose the shortlist and the two winning stories.…
News Meet our first Anthology contributors 28 Oct 202017 Jun 2021 You may have noticed recently that we've been shouting about our upcoming Short Story Anthology. Well, we make no apologies for that! We're very proud of it, and we can't…
News Our first print anthology is almost here! 13 Oct 202017 Jun 2021 It's been about a year in the planning and production, but now our first ever print anthology is almost here! Featuring prize-winning stories from the first year (and a bit)…
News Our new FLASH FICTION competition is now open for submissions 1 Sep 202017 Jun 2021 Writers and authors visiting Cranked Anvil regularly will know that we've been running our 1500 word short story competition for about 18 months now. With rolling submissions open quarterly throughout…