Flash 500 Writing Competitions

Flash Fiction Competition Welcome to the Flash Fiction Competition by Flash 500! This is a flash fiction competition where the prize money truly reflects the skill required to enc...

Love writing flash fiction? Are you looking for a #writingcompetition with good prize money?
flash500.com/flash-fiction/
Entries close 31 March
Prizes: £300/£200/£100 plus publication
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Don’t miss out! It’s the final day to enter our international short story competition up to 3,000 words!
flash500.com/short-stories/
Entries close at midnight (28 February).
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and we accept all genres.
#writers #amwriting #WritiersLife

February Sidles Out As February sidles towards its end, I am in a very musing kind of mood. I just turned up at one of my daily Time to Write meetings – the evening one – and we all decided to do what we call...

NEW BLOG POST - February Sidles Out - Please read and comment ☺️ #writing #writingcommunity #writersofbluesky www.debbivoisey.co.uk/musings/febr...

Writing Inspiration: Who are you? Being authentic requires that you be in touch with yourself. Ask yourself who you are (That is, how how do you define yourself?). What makes you happy? What are your passions (beyond writing, …

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Do you have a short story (up to 3,000 words) ready for submission? Entries close TOMORROW for our open-themed international short story competition!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

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Just three days left to enter our international open-themed short story competition for up to 3,000 words!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

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Just three days left to enter our international open-themed short story competition for up to 3,000 words!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

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There are now only four days left to enter our open-themed international short story competition. Do you have stories up to 3,000 words ready to submit? Don’t delay. Entries close 28 February.

Prizes: £500/£200/£100

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

Before you write, pause for 2 minutes. What can you hear? Smell? Sensory description matters. If you try to force a story, it won't work, so use your senses to make the foundations, and build from that.
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Create main character that readers bond with Virtually every story aims to establish a bond between the main character and the reader. After all, why would a reader continue to read a story about an unlikable character?Granted, there are…

#writer #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers inventingrealityediting.com/2...

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There are now only four days left to enter our open-themed international short story competition. Do you have stories up to 3,000 words ready to submit? Don’t delay. Entries close 28 February.

Prizes: £500/£200/£100

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

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FINAL FIVE DAYS! There are only five days left until close of entries for our international short story competition up to 3,000 words!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and will be judged by @wendyclarke.bsky.social

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

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FINAL FIVE DAYS! There are only five days left until close of entries for our international short story competition up to 3,000 words!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and will be judged by @wendyclarke.bsky.social

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

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There are now just 7 days left until close of entries for our open-themed international short story competition for up to 3,000 words!

Prizes: £500/£200/£100

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

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Ten-day countdown until close of entries for our international short story competition up to 3,000 words!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and will be judged by @wendyclarke.bsky.social

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity #writersofbluesky

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Ten-day countdown until close of entries for our international short story competition up to 3,000 words!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and will be judged by @wendyclarke.bsky.social

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity #writersofbluesky

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We have the following international competition categories open for 2026:
Quarterly #flashfiction – closes for entries 31 March
Annual #shortstory – closes for entries 28 February
Annual #novels – closes for entries 31 October

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As you end this #writing week and look ahead to the next, try writing without asking what it’s for. Just roll with it and see what happens. Come write with me 😊 www.debbivoisey.co.uk/courses-and-... #SundaySettling #writingcommunity #writersofbluesky

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Analysis of Richard Wright’s Bright and Morning Star In 1938, when Richard Wright published Bright and Morning Star in the magazine New Masses, and in 1940, when he added it as the last of the stories in a collection entitled Uncle Tom’s Children, he…

Today’s story from BASS of the Century was “Bright and Morning Star,” by Richard Wright, 1939, from New Masses. Read with my heart in my throat, too thoroughly gripped by the story to do much underlining or writing in the margins. Found an analysis here: literariness.org/2021/05/08/a...

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Don’t miss out on your chance to enter our international short story competition for up to 3,000 words!
Entries close 28 February.
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and we accept all genres.

flash500.com/short-stories/

#writers #amwriting #Writerslife #ShortStory

A gorgeous piece, Anna. So much in so few words. Breathless, emotionally immersive. Love the ending. 🥭

Short Stories Competition Welcome to our short stories competition category. This is an open-themed competition and we accept all genres, including those written by or for children.

Entries close at the end of this month for our international short story competition up to 3,000 words!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and will be judged by @wendyclarke.bsky.social

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

Our flash fiction winners, as judged by @lunchontuesday.bsky.social, are up on the website.
Well done to the winning writers and many congratulations to all who made the long and short lists. The standard was high!
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
#flashfiction #fiction #WritingCommunity

Our flash fiction winners, as judged by @lunchontuesday.bsky.social, are up on the website.
Well done to the winning writers and many congratulations to all who made the long and short lists. The standard was high!
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
#flashfiction #fiction #WritingCommunity

Short Stories Competition Welcome to our short stories competition category. This is an open-themed competition and we accept all genres, including those written by or for children.

Entries close at the end of this month for our international short story competition up to 3,000 words!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and will be judged by @wendyclarke.bsky.social

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

Short Stories Competition Welcome to our short stories competition category. This is an open-themed competition and we accept all genres, including those written by or for children.

Our international open-themed short story competition for up to 3,000 words is open for entries until the end of this month!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity

Short Stories Competition Welcome to our short stories competition category. This is an open-themed competition and we accept all genres, including those written by or for children.

International short story competition for up to 3,000 words closes at the end of this month!
Prizes: £500/£200/£100
The theme is open and will be judged by @wendyclarke.bsky.social

flash500.com/short-stories/

#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity #writers

Hi Laura,
@gonelawn.bsky.social
@fracturedlit.bsky.social - Ghosts, Fables, Fairytales opens Feb 16th
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social - various
@flash500.bsky.social

Get writing! xx