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The FFF Competition Thirty Winning Flash Fiction!
After Dinner
by Caroline McKenzie
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#shortfiction #fiction #writing #writingcompetitions
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The FFF Competition Thirty Winning Flash Fiction!
After Dinner
by Caroline McKenzie
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#shortfiction #fiction #writing #writingcompetitions
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Competition Thirty Winning Flash Fiction: After Dinner – Free Flash Fiction
My mother-in-law clears the empty plates. I offer to help, but she doesn’t look up. Her words flutter like napkins; no, thank you, she can manage. I wonder if she would have spoken at all if manners h...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The FFF Competition Thirty Winning Flash Fiction!
After Dinner
by Caroline McKenzie
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#shortfiction #fiction #writing #writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
@nishxhegde.bsky.social
The FFF Competition Thirty Winning Flash Fiction!
After Dinner
by Caroline McKenzie
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#shortfiction #fiction #writing #writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
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It’s nice to get a tiny piece of good news when you’re sick and grumpy. Grateful to American Short Fiction. Sending congratulations to the winners. This story is in my collection which I hope to share someday.
![Dear Maureen Langloss,
Thank you for submitting "[redacted]" to The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize. While your submission did not make the final short list, it was selected for a list of contest semi-finalists. Your work stood out as one of our strongest submissions, and we hope you will submit to us again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yzu5lus5ff7wumrqrmzsllnz/bafkreihwnma2psubikasnqk4sylxfmoi67fiolzyd4u2ry4ry4wovupo3a@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It’s nice to get a tiny piece of good news when you’re sick and grumpy. Grateful to American Short Fiction. Sending congratulations to the winners. This story is in my collection which I hope to share someday.
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The New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026 is open to entries. newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio...
Top prize: £1,100.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
10% of proceeds donated to charity, split between @firststory.bsky.social and the Funzi & Bodo Trust
#writingcompetition #flashfiction
Top prize: £1,100.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
10% of proceeds donated to charity, split between @firststory.bsky.social and the Funzi & Bodo Trust
#writingcompetition #flashfiction
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026 is open to entries. newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio...
Top prize: £1,100.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
10% of proceeds donated to charity, split between @firststory.bsky.social and the Funzi & Bodo Trust
#writingcompetition #flashfiction
Top prize: £1,100.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
10% of proceeds donated to charity, split between @firststory.bsky.social and the Funzi & Bodo Trust
#writingcompetition #flashfiction
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So happy & grateful to be chosen for this contest! 🥰
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
So happy & grateful to be chosen for this contest! 🥰
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Thrilled to win Second Prize in @thesunlightpress.bsky.social Flash Fiction Contest! Thank you to the readers and judge @kelliborges2.bsky.social for this honour!❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #litmag #shortstory #writing
Our judge Kelli Borges shares her insights on all the winning stories. Find out our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest second and third place winners.
Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
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Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
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November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thrilled to win Second Prize in @thesunlightpress.bsky.social Flash Fiction Contest! Thank you to the readers and judge @kelliborges2.bsky.social for this honour!❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #litmag #shortstory #writing
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After selecting a shortlist of six stories from thousands of entries, we are thrilled to announce Renesha Dhanraj as the winner of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025, for her story, ‘Black Cake’.
Read more here: thelondonmagazine.org/renesha-dhan...
Read more here: thelondonmagazine.org/renesha-dhan...
Renesha Dhanraj wins The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine
The judges of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 award first place to Renesha Dhanraj for her story, 'Black Cake'.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
After selecting a shortlist of six stories from thousands of entries, we are thrilled to announce Renesha Dhanraj as the winner of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025, for her story, ‘Black Cake’.
Read more here: thelondonmagazine.org/renesha-dhan...
Read more here: thelondonmagazine.org/renesha-dhan...
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We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
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🚨 New contest alert! Submit to the Susan Neville Prizes in Fiction & Poetry from Booth.
🏆 $1,000 + publication
🖊️ Judges: Kaveh Akbar & Paige Lewis
📅 Deadline: Dec 31
📎 $20 entry (includes 2-issue subscription)
#WritingContest #writers
🏆 $1,000 + publication
🖊️ Judges: Kaveh Akbar & Paige Lewis
📅 Deadline: Dec 31
📎 $20 entry (includes 2-issue subscription)
#WritingContest #writers
The 2025 Susan Neville Prizes in Fiction & Poetry
Booth Journal is accepting submissions for the 2025 Susan Neville Prizes in Fiction and Poetry. Winners receive $1,000 and publication.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
🚨 New contest alert! Submit to the Susan Neville Prizes in Fiction & Poetry from Booth.
🏆 $1,000 + publication
🖊️ Judges: Kaveh Akbar & Paige Lewis
📅 Deadline: Dec 31
📎 $20 entry (includes 2-issue subscription)
#WritingContest #writers
🏆 $1,000 + publication
🖊️ Judges: Kaveh Akbar & Paige Lewis
📅 Deadline: Dec 31
📎 $20 entry (includes 2-issue subscription)
#WritingContest #writers
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Why you'll probably see me ask for money this year. (Apart from the fact that I lost a job earlier this year....heh heh)
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How to Contribute… Money, I mean. Fat stacks.
The story show (old: contest, now: ConThology, or anthology or whatever) takes money to do well. And fairly. When I started, I paid most people…nothing. Or $5. But most people who weren’…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Why you'll probably see me ask for money this year. (Apart from the fact that I lost a job earlier this year....heh heh)
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ICYMI, my horror story ‘We Were Never Afraid of the Spider’ won 1st place in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monster contest and you can read it here:
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The Molotov Cocktail
We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox Our third-grade teacher was named Mrs. Winters. She wore glasses that magnified her green and blue and green eyes. Her hair was a dried hornet’s ne…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
ICYMI, my horror story ‘We Were Never Afraid of the Spider’ won 1st place in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monster contest and you can read it here:
themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/flash...
themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/flash...
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My New Year’s resolution was to have my first piece of fiction published in 2025, and wow! My first story placed 4th in the Flash Monster contest at @molotovlitzine.bsky.social
Read it along with the other winners!! 👻
Read it along with the other winners!! 👻
This is Halloween. #FlashMonster themolotovcocktail.com/2025/10/31/f...
Flash Monster 2025
This is Halloween. I We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox II In Darkness by Eoin Nordman III Toxoplasma Odocoileus by Colin Alexander IV Son of Seanfhocail by Joseph Gilbride V…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My New Year’s resolution was to have my first piece of fiction published in 2025, and wow! My first story placed 4th in the Flash Monster contest at @molotovlitzine.bsky.social
Read it along with the other winners!! 👻
Read it along with the other winners!! 👻
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Do you like to enjoy Christmas by being horrified, disillusioned, and ontologically unsettled? Sure! We all do! That's why you'll submit to this year's Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest/Anthology!!!
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Announcing the EIGHTH Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology!
Yes, the (non) contest is alive, and, yes, it’s late. It’s been a rough year, and I’ve lost a lot of the time for REAL work because of all that half-ass work that actually pays. I had to figure out…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Do you like to enjoy Christmas by being horrified, disillusioned, and ontologically unsettled? Sure! We all do! That's why you'll submit to this year's Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest/Anthology!!!
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Deadline!!!!! Midnight ET tonight! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Deadline!!!!! Midnight ET tonight! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Day zero or day one, today is the deadline for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Ends midnight tonight. Send your best 250 words (or fewer). #TheMikey. ❤️
#TheMikey deadline is this Saturday Nov. 15, midnight NYC. However you count the days (you can see how bad we are at it), you can't choose your own ending for this, sadly, but you CAN choose to send us your 250-word story—top prizes $1,000/$500/$300; finalists $100; all published in December's SLQ.
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Day zero or day one, today is the deadline for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Ends midnight tonight. Send your best 250 words (or fewer). #TheMikey. ❤️
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A nice fast drum roll, please...
FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Shortlist...
Thank you to all who entered C30.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
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FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Shortlist...
Thank you to all who entered C30.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
Competition Thirty Shortlist | Free Flash Fiction
Competition Thirty Shortlist As Chosen by Judge Nish X. Hegde After Dinner by Caroline McKenzie Aspirations by Joanna Miller Dream Catcher by Karen Arnold Mama Says by Emma Phillips Sap by Stuart Ca...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A nice fast drum roll, please...
FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Shortlist...
Thank you to all who entered C30.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Shortlist...
Thank you to all who entered C30.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
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Congratulations to our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest Long List Nominees! Stay tuned for the winner on Monday!
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Congratulations to our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest Long List Nominees! Stay tuned for the winner on Monday!
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We are delighted to share the shortlist of six stories for The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025!
Congratulations to all shortlisted writers, and a huge thank you to our judges Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price.
Winners will be announced next week.
Congratulations to all shortlisted writers, and a huge thank you to our judges Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price.
Winners will be announced next week.
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We are delighted to share the shortlist of six stories for The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025!
Congratulations to all shortlisted writers, and a huge thank you to our judges Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price.
Winners will be announced next week.
Congratulations to all shortlisted writers, and a huge thank you to our judges Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price.
Winners will be announced next week.
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ENDS TOMORROW.
#TheMikey deadline is this Saturday Nov. 15, midnight NYC. However you count the days (you can see how bad we are at it), you can't choose your own ending for this, sadly, but you CAN choose to send us your 250-word story—top prizes $1,000/$500/$300; finalists $100; all published in December's SLQ.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
ENDS TOMORROW.
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Earning Honorable Mention and a gift card in WOW's summer flash fiction contest: APPRECIATED.
This thoughtful personalized feedback from the contest coordinators regarding my story about sisters-over-age-40 navigating pregnancy loss with tattoos: PRICELESS.
This thoughtful personalized feedback from the contest coordinators regarding my story about sisters-over-age-40 navigating pregnancy loss with tattoos: PRICELESS.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Earning Honorable Mention and a gift card in WOW's summer flash fiction contest: APPRECIATED.
This thoughtful personalized feedback from the contest coordinators regarding my story about sisters-over-age-40 navigating pregnancy loss with tattoos: PRICELESS.
This thoughtful personalized feedback from the contest coordinators regarding my story about sisters-over-age-40 navigating pregnancy loss with tattoos: PRICELESS.
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Saturday is now the day after tomorrow #TheMikey
#TheMikey deadline is this Saturday Nov. 15, midnight NYC. However you count the days (you can see how bad we are at it), you can't choose your own ending for this, sadly, but you CAN choose to send us your 250-word story—top prizes $1,000/$500/$300; finalists $100; all published in December's SLQ.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Saturday is now the day after tomorrow #TheMikey
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The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week!
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week!
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
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Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social
The Failing Writers Podcast - S5 Ep20: 2025 Flash Fiction Contest FINAL!
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November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social