Deadline: January 8, 2024 About the competition Writers, gear up for our last chapter! Quantum Shorts returns with a final open call for flash fiction. The contest is free to enter and is accepting submissions until 8 January 2024. The challenge for writers is this: craft a story no longerMore
Deadline: May 30, 2024 Entry fee: £11 About the competition It may be the sprint of creative writing but that doesn’t mean you can rush the creative process. Take us somewhere fast then let your story marinate in the reader’s mind. Make every one of your 250 words count. ThereMore
Deadline: November 3, 2023 Entry fee: $10 About the competition F(r)iction is a triannual publication that boasts work from both industry legends and emerging writers. Each issue is carefully curated to evaluate an important cultural topic from vastly different perspectives. We accept short fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, comics, andMore
Deadline: August 31, 2023 Entry fee: $8 About the competition This summer we celebrate the meaning of gifts, exchanges and the stories we tell about them. This competition runs in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries’ Gifts and Books exhibition at the University of Oxford. Each entrant to the 2023 summerMore
Deadline: September 30, 2023 About the competition The César Egido Serrano Foundation periodically calls for an International Short Story Contest that is part of the activities that the Foundation carries out to achieve its objective, which is none other than that the word is the tool against all violence andMore
Deadline: September 18, 2023 Entry fee: £6 About the competition Submit complete short fiction, on any subject, up to 300 words.Tania Hershman, flash fiction and short story writier, editor, poet and novelist, will be judging this year’s competition. The winning flash fiction writer will receive £500, with three finalists receiveMore
Deadline: July 31, 2023 Entry fee: $7 About the competition This is an international competition, open to writers from all over the world over the age of 16. Stories may be on any theme but we sadly do not accept YA or Children’s stories. Competition guidelines Send your submissions inMore
Deadline: April 27, 2023 Entry fee: $10 About the competition The competition is organized by F(r)iction, a literary journal published by Brink Literacy Project. The competition is open to anyone over the age of thirteen. F(r)iction accepts work, written in English, from anywhere in the world—regardless of genre, style, or origin—and welcome speculativeMore
Deadline: January 31, 2023 Entry fee: £6 for one flash fiction, £10 for two flash fictions, £14 for three flash fictions About the competition Write yourself into history and become one of the greats with the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize. For centuries, the greats have come to Oxford to inkMore