Submissions for our 2021 Novella-in-Flash Competition are now closed and judging is underway. Thank you to everyone who submitted work!
In celebration of our tenth anniversary in 2021 we are now open to entries for our first novella-in-flash competition. Our judge is Sophie van Llewyn, author of Bottled Goods, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The competition will be run by Stephanie Carty and Jeanette Sheppard. You can read more about the Novella-in-Flash Award team here.
To enter, please read our full Novella-in-Flash Award Submission Guidelines, but here are the competition highlights:
- Judge: Sophie van Llewyn
- First prize is £300 and publication by the National Flash Fiction Day Press as a single author novella-in-flash.
- Second prize is £100.
- Third prize is £50.
- Word count: 6,000 to 12,000.
- Individual flashes: 1,000 words max.
- Entry fee: £14.
- Free submission is available if you feel the fee is a barrier to entry. No questions asked.
- Simultaneous subs: Yes.
- Theme: None.
- Mutiple entries: Yes, but entrants may only win one prize.