FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended! The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...

Six weeks remain to send us your best short story! Read all details here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

Just one more week to get those micro-fiction Halloween tales submitted to our contest. You don't want to be left in the dark all alone, do you? Guidelines and submission portal here: tinyurl.com/TTTHalloween...

It’s fall, and you know what that means? 🍁 Changing leaves, sweater season, and—most importantly—our 3rd Jerboa Lit 500 flash fiction contest! If you haven't already, we'd love to have you join us! You can sign up at www.jerboalit.com/registration for all the fun. October 3-5! 48 hours, 500 words!

Our 2025 Short Fiction Contest is open for submissions. All genres will be considered, because a good story is a good story. #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #LitMag #Horror #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Mystery #Romance #Romantasy #Dystopian

Short Edition is running #shortstory contest "Money Chronicles" short-edition.com/en/contest/p... "Send us your fiction or creative nonfiction short stories featuring characters whose relationship to money may be on the verge of unexpected or needed change." #WriteSky #writingcommunity

🎉 Congrats to Elijah J. Mears, whose flash fiction, "Scar Tissue" is a 3rd place winner in our Weird West Quick Draw contest. Whiskey and solitude on the West Texas plains bring out more than just old wounds for cowboys Miguel and John. Read Elijah's winning story: reachyourapex.com/scar-tissue

And today The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Ceremony featuring Matt Cook, The Curve Theatre, Janine from Eastenders, a swingers club, and short story shenanigans. open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

It's contest season! Our annual writing contests are on NOW until November 30th! Prairiefire.ca/conte...

Our special guest judge @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social said ‘When you judge a competition you nearly always say it was hard to choose but in the end one or two jumped out. In this case, so many jumped out: it was story whack-a-mole inside my head.’ lrb.me/kg3

I'm delighted to announce that I'm 1st runner up for the 2025 Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize! 🏆🎉 It's a huge honour to be placed so highly among such fierce competition. Hurray!

Very glad to have judged this year's RTE Short Story Competition, alongside Jan Carson and Tristan Rosenstock: the shortlist is now published. Great writing this year. The winners are announced on 24 October. @rteradio1.bsky.social @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social

FFF Competition Thirty flash fiction 100/300 Words 1 W £165.00 2 HC £77.00 3 SL £66.00 Judge: Nish X. Hegde £4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe £2.95 fee per entry/story via BACS - ends 23/10/25 Details... #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...

Our September newsletter is out! We found nearly three dozen excellent free poetry and prose contests with deadlines between today and October 31. https://createsend.com/t/d-FEA51963C3F672602540EF23F30FEDED

Deadline Nov 2: CRAFT’s Flash Prose Prize Submit unpublished fiction and creative nonfiction up to 1,000 words. Three winners will receive $1,000 each, publication, and a bundle of the Rose Metal Press Field Guides. Fee: $20 for 1-2 pieces. https://www.craftliterary.com/craft-flash-prose-prize-2025/

Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with @lumchanmfa.bsky.social as our guest judge. Congratulations to our winners: @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, Meg Taylor, @francesgapper.bsky.social, Alice Hatcher, Liana Meffert! Read their flash here: tinyurl.com/Illumination405.

Huge congratulations to all the prize winners of the 2025 Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition. First prize went to Tim Collyer. Full list of winners are available on our website: munsterlit.ie/o-faolain-sh... #writing #shortstory #competitions

Writers - enter the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize! Max 500 words Fee $10 Closes 15 Oct Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social "The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.” newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

Hugely honoured to be in such good company here...

You know what? I bet you'd win our flash fiction contest if you entered it. I've just got a feeling about you, kiddo. I see £25 (or equivalent) prize money + publication in our winter issue in your future. 🔮👀 penstricken.com/competitions #fiction #writersky #writingcontest

Put on your fastest fingers and crank your brain to 11: our surprise flash fiction contest is now open! 🧠 🤏Be quick: the maximum word count is 250. 🕛And then be even quicker: gates close at midnight CST September 30. 🎃 Theme: New origins of Halloween traditions. 💰 Prize: $50 talestoterrify.moksha.io

The Hope Prize. Deadline October 31, 2025 thehopeprize.submittable.com/submit

Here it is... As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou www.linkedin.com/in/amy-photiou The FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Winning Flash Fiction: All That the Tide Carries by Harry Humber #writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou www.linkedin.com/in/amy-photiou FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Highly Commended: The Cosmology of Moths by Nish X. Hegde nish.fyi #writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou www.linkedin.com/in/amy-photiou FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Highly Commended: What Remains, Luminous by Timothy Collyer #writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

The 2025 48-hour Savage Science Fiction / Fantasy Writing Contest takes place next weekend, September 19-21. The contest opens Fri @ 5pmET/2pmPT with details posted on TC's main page. #writing #contest #writingcontest #scifi #fantasy tclj.toasted-cheese.com/savage-writi...

We're opening subs for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize on 15 Sept! Read what judge Graham Faulkner wants: "Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers. The ability to create a mood, an intimacy, a connection." newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition 2025 Results munsterlit.ie/o-faolain-sh...

Only from the #BBC. BBC National Short Story Award competition finalists. You can listen to the #stories live at #BBCRadio4 from Monday 15th September and at #BBCSounds. #fiction #literature

We're absolutely delighted to share the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2025 which very proud to be a part of 👏 #BBCNSSA

What a dream to be shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with @universitypress.cambridge.org on its 20th anniversary. You'll be able to listen to the abridged story on BBC Radio 4 + @bbcsounds.bsky.social next week, read by Ruth Bradley. It was first pubd in @parisreview.bsky.social. 🙏🏻

Another year, another (abject) failure to win the BBC Short Story Prize... But I see that @commapress.bsky.social Dinesh Allirajah Prize winner Edward Hogan is short listed, so I'm one short list away from the short list. Or something?

As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou www.linkedin.com/in/amy-photiou FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Shortlisted: On The Wind by Karen Arnold #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

Delighted to have been shortlisted in this great competition.

Enter our flash #fiction competition to win a cash prize + your story published in our winter issue. We're open to entries from anyone and we're awfully friendly so don't be shy 😊. Deadline for entries is 26th October. See link for full competition rules and to enter: penstricken.com/competitions

FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Shortlisted: Impossible Summer by Jaime Gill www.jaimegill.com @jaimegill.bsky.social #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

FFF Competition Thirty flash fiction between 100/300 W 1 W £165.00 2 HC £77.00 3 SL £66.00 Judge: TBC £4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe £2.95 fee per entry/story via BACS - 23/10/25 at 10:00 Details... #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...

Hey, who turned out the lights?? 🕯️🕯️🕯️ The theme for September's flash fiction contest is CANDLELIGHT! You have until the end of this month to submit. Full submission details linked below ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

My 250 word flash fiction is headed for the Final Showdown! I had so much fun writing this one. Don't worry, I'm not asking for votes (because you can't vote), but can read it here: writingbattle.com/story/debrie... #writingbattle #flashfiction #writing #competition #contest

Don't forget to enter our flash fiction competition 👉🏻 penstricken.com/competitions #fiction #flashfiction

Are you ready?! It is congratulations and commiserations time... FFF are pleased to announce the Competition Twenty-Nine Shortlist! FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Shortlist As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou www.linkedin.com/in/amy-photiou freeflashfiction.com/competition-...

I’m honored to be judging the Fall Flash Fiction Contest at the fabulous @thesunlightpress.bsky.social! There are super generous cash prizes (the winner receives $600, second place winner $250, and third place winner $150). Link with info below. I can’t wait to read your work! ☀️

In eleventh grade I won a school short story competition You could say I’m an award winning writer

Get your entries in to this super writing competition with cash prizes up for grabs. The closing date for the Southport Writers’ Circle Short Story Competition is 31 Oct 2025. Link in the comments for more details.

For more details & to enter visit www.swconline.co.uk/category/com...

FFF are pleased to announce the Competition Twenty-Nine Longlist … Congratulations to those who made the Longlist and commiserations to those who did not make it this time. #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/competition-...

#Writing calls & contests for #fiction, #nonfiction & #poetry paying up to $186,000. #SubmissionCall themes include: folk #horror; arms & armor; alchemy; who gets to be American?; #ldr; cats; the language of flowers; eerie Christmas; and soilpunk. 🔗 authorspublish.com/41-themed-su...

Picked your story yet? Just over 4 weeks to go. Closes, Midnight GMT 5 October 2025 Winners: Announced by 1 Nov Judge @kazbarwrites.bsky.social £1460 prize fund. 50 authors offered anthology publication, with all published authors getting a free print copy. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Getting an honorable mention in a lit mag from a writing contest has had me put on my Big Girl Panties and look at lit mags to sub to that I otherwise wouldn't have. (Think Paris Review but not quite as fancy) #submitting #stories #fiction #cnf #memoirs #litmags #writing

We're holding our first-ever short fiction contest. Entries can be of any genre and will be judged by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. First-place wins $3,000, and runners-up $500 each. Don't miss the Sept 30 deadline! thebulletin.org/write-before...