National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for submissions to our annual Anthology and Microfiction Competition!
It may be cold and dark outside, but we're getting ready for the UK's twelfth annual National Flash Fiction Day which we'll be celebrating on 24 June 2023. We've opened submissions to both our Anthology and Microfiction Competition projects and will be reading submissions from now until 15 February 2023. We are open to work from anyone and everyone, all around the world.
For the 2023 Anthology, we're looking for flash up to 500 words on the theme is TIME. Your work will be read by editors Karen Jones and Damhnait Monaghan. Selected work will be published in our 2023 print/ebook anthology and be considered for our Editors' Choice Awards. You can read our submission details here.
For the Microfiction Competition, we're looking for flash of up to 100 words. There is no theme. Your work will be read by judges Tim Craig, Amanda Huggins, Fiona J. Mackintosh, and Johanna Robinson. Winners and runners-up will receive cash prizes and be published online and in our print/ebook anthology. Full submission details can be found here.
Our Anthology and Microfiction Competition teams look forward to reading your work!