We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...

Really pleased to reach the longlist in the #mslexia flash fiction competition. Congratulations to the shortlist and winners 🥳

Whoop! In a pretty gloomy October this is a sparkly piece of news. Thanks @bathflashaward.bsky.social for the long listing 🥳

Love Cole's story for the nostalgia - and the zinging twist of optimism! Super stuff @nomad-sw18.bsky.social

Lots happening in Oct— last weekend to enter 31st Award. Closes this Sun, 5th Oct. £1460 in prizes. 300 words max.Results out by end of Oct. Our 9th yearly Novella in Flash Award ends Oct 31st. £500 in prizes plus publication. Results out Jan 2026. Bathflashfictionaward.com

Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th. We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen. themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...

So excited to have a story on the @frazzledlit.bsky.social long list - congrats to everyone else and good luck for the shortlist 🤞🥳

My little column in Writing Magazine. 😊

Very pleased and more than a little surprised to find my story is clinging on. Thanks to the judges of the Frome Short Story Competition. Fingers crossed and good luck to the other shortlistees. fromeshortstorycompetition.co.uk

I am late to the party but absolutely thrilled to find I've been longlisted for the June @bathflashaward.bsky.social Flash Fiction competition. Thank you judges and good luck everyone!

Very exciting to be part of the flood. Have been dipping in all day - looking forward to diving in fully over the next few days. Thanks @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for all your amazing hard work.

fromeshortstorycompetition.co.uk The long list for the Frome Short Story Competition is up. Amazed and delighted to see two of my stories on it. Good luck to the other longlistees and 🤞!

Excited to be part of the flood…

First-prize-winning story now available to read on the Exeter Writers website www.exeterwriters.org.uk/2025/06/read.... Congratulations, Jillian Grant Shoichet!

Amazing @vikkipatis.bsky.social ! Congratulations x

Exeter writers shortlist is now up! 🤞🎉

The Exeter Writers Short Story Competition longlist is up on the website. Good luck to everyone who entered!

Delighted my story An Expression of Futility will be part of the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Flash Flood on 14th June. Can't wait to get swimming among all those other stories.

Congratulations to all on the short list! 🥳

We're delighted to present the inaugural New Writers Anthology: newwriters.org.uk/anthology-is... It features a selection of prize-winning and shortlisted stories, poems and book reviews from the competitions we ran between 2022 and 2024. We hope you enjoy it! #newwriters #writinganthology

Thrilled to have been longlisted for the #ExeterNovelPrize! Fingers crossed for the next bit. Congratulations to my fellow longlistees and thanks to @cathiehartigan.bsky.social and all the judges and readers

We've got some real gems in Issue 15.6. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/2025/02/28/v...

Two big events happening early tomorrow 28th Feb— the results of our 29th Award,judged by @sfreligh.bsky.social & the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social taking place in Bristol 18-20 July, is opening for bookings! Stay tuned…

What fantastic news to wake up to! So pleased my story has made it through to the shortlist 🎉 congratulations to everyone else

Thrilled to have a story on the list 🤩. Congratulations to other longlisters and good luck!

If you fancy a skin-crawling tale about twins and the sea, have a read of @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social brilliant story 'Out of Oneness, Two' at themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash....

Love this! Will never look at pink goo in the same way 🫣

Thanks @molotovlitzine.bsky.social for picking my weird tale! Love this comp. Looking forward to reading everybody’s stories.

What brilliant news! Thanks @molotovlitzine.bsky.social and congratulations to everyone else in the top 10 and close but no cigars - this is such a fun competition!

I love the look of this! 👀 1970s...hmm. Plenty of time to come up with something!!