Our 2026 Novella in Flash Award, judged by me, Jude Higgins, is now open for entries until 31st October 2025. Results out in January 2026. For novellas-in-flash in between 6000 and 18000 words. Fir…

Enter The Next Big Story prize at The Novelry for a chance to win $100,000 (£75,000 U.K.). Eight shortlisted entrants will receive The Finished Novel Course. Opens May 1, 2025. Closes July 31, 2025. T...

2025 Prompts *   NFFD 2025 Prompt #1: Two Seasons  *   NFFD 2025 Prompt #2: Hunting Season  *   NFFD 2025 Prompt #3: Seasons of Love  *   NFFD 2025 Prompt #4: Off Season  *   NFFD 2025 Prompt #5: Open Season     2025 Responses  * 'A Misunderstanding' by Liz Barclay  * 'The Season of Balsam Flower Dyeing' by Heain Joung  * 'Riches' by Emily Macdonald  * 'If it Ain't Right, it Must Be Left' by Lisa H. Owens  * 'Diary Entries from 2025' by Mina Otsuka  * 'Seven-Foot Bicentenarian Yearns for his Ticker' by David Lewis  * 'The Price of Bread' by Jane Claire Jackson  * 'Mr September through December. Mr January to March' by Karen Walker  * 'Finding Fire' by Alice Monro  * 'Old Spice' by Rachel Burrows  * 'Cocktails at the end of the world hotel' by Jack Morris  * 'All The Warm Things' by Chloe Paige  * 'From way back in 1970' by Karen Walker  * 'One Resort, Two Seasons' by Jane Claire Jackson  * 'Maze' by Abida Akram  * 'Lonely No More' by Jean Feingold  * 'A nimble light' by Mizuki Yamagen  * 'Bright, Stubborn Things' by Cate McGowan  * 'Big Game Hunter' by Scott MacLeod  * 'Skin Flicks, Voted Best Tattoo Parlor in Town' by Debra A. Daniel  * 'A pocketful of quiet' by Alice Monro  * 'Scar Tissue' by Melissa Flores Anderson  * 'Yes Yes Yes' by Sarah Freligh  * 'Time flies' by Scott MacLeod  * 'Dressed for the weather' by Melissa Flores Anderson  * 'Two seasons' by Maria Sanger  * 'The day of the cats' by Jules Goodlet-Rowley  * 'All the way' by Jeremy Boyce  * 'Isaac Newton saw an apple fall' by Jack Morris  * 'Gower Street Bookshop closes at 9pm' by Judy Darley  * 'Wisdom in a Teacup' by Faye Brinsmead  * 'Papas and Beers' by Melissa Flores Anderson  * 'A Huckster’s How-To of Hustling Gulls' by Jude Potts  * 'Skipped' by Bailey Scroggins  * 'To The Person Who Kept My Amazon Package' by Suzanne Hicks  * 'Sealed Envelopes' by Allison Renner  * 'Not Based on a True Story' by Lucienne Cummings  * 'Down and Up' by Michael Pettit  * 'A Nimby Fails to Console Himself with Fake Flowers from Ikea' by D. X. Lewis * 'Scuppered' by Emily Macdonald  * 'Purchase Partners with One Year Warranty' by Marzia Rahman  * 'She Was No Wellspring of Ideas' by Sravanthi Challapalli  * 'Cake Walk' by Scott MacLeod  * 'Home' by Jackie Hales  * 'Calida and Frigida' by Lucienne Cummings  * 'Tis the season of not asking him his name' by Roopa Raveendra  * 'Claude' by Cate McGowan  * 'Fiat Lux' by Willow Woo  * 'A Hunt Reaches a Climax' by Sravanthi Challapalli  * 'The Last Poppy' by Jackie Hales  * 'Rainbow Road' by Alice Monro  * 'You, Change, Me' by Madeleine Armstrong  * 'Protection' by Patricia Bender  * 'The Fifth Son' by Birgit K. Gaiser  * 'My Wife Saw Santa' by Mileva Anastasiadou  * 'Unlevel Playing Field' by Jim Parisi  * 'Bert’s Bus' by Joyce Bingham  * 'One Day, I will Climb a Mountain' by Marzia Rahman  * 'Offerings' by Karin Hedetniemi  * 'The Mystery of the Missing Last Nerve' by Athena Law  * 'Summer of T.V. Dinners for One' by Lisa H. Owens  * 'Pressing Clouds' by Cate McGowan  * 'Thirty seconds after you get on the train' by Philippa Bowe  * 'Dust to Dust' by Emily MacDonald  * 'Crystal Healing' by Julie Cunningham  * 'Fred Number Three' by Bronwen Griffiths  * 'Scattering' by Cate McGowan  * 'Holding Harry' by Jane Claire Jackson  * 'A Trace Of Her' by Abida Akram  * 'Hallowe’en Ball' by Birgit K. Gaiser * 'It’s My Destiny' by Allison Renner  * 'The Waterpark in Winter' by Jane Claire Jackson  * ‘Laughter Between the Lines’ by Alice Monro  * 'Perditus' by Lynda McMahon  * 'Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)' by Chloe Paige  * 'Captain Molasses' by Athena Law  * 'Playing the Boy Scout Outside Aldi in 1975' by D. X. Lewis  * 'Angel wings, boxed. As new.' by Jack Morris  * 'The Empty Slot' by Ida Keogh  * ‘Minus One and Beautiful’ by Alice Monro  * 'Sheila’s Mysterious Gap' by Jane Claire Jackson  * 'What would you do?' by Madeleine Armstrong  * 'When Agatha rediscovered her own love story' by D. X. Lewis  * 'The Perfect Season' by Abida Akram  * 'Fall and Spring Semesters' by Jean Feingold  * 'Sudden Season Change' by Meshv Patel  * 'Mrs Murdoch' by Madeleine Armstrong  * 'Homing instinct' by Jeremy Boyce  * 'Street art of a fox catching a bus at sunrise' by Ida Keogh  * 'When They Walked Out One Winter’s Morning' by Lynda McMahon  * 'Lost, Maybe Forever' by Jean Feingold  * 'The Vixen' by Abida Akram  * 'The Moon in June' by Madeleine Armstrong  * 'The Deepest Part' by Cate McGowan  * 'Joey’s looking for a table' by Katie Willow  * 'When Life Gives You Bitter Hellas Planitia Fruit...' by Lisa H. Owens  * 'A Visit to St Nick' by Lucienne Cummings  * 'Monsoon Season' by Abida Akram  * 'Unknown Overdressed Man Discovered' by Jean Feingold  * 'Let’s Pretend We Didn’t See Each Other' by Gargi Mehra  * 'Drive' by Michele Catalano  * 'An intervention' by Birgit K. Gaiser  * 'Resignation' by Chloe Cook  * 'Four Years' by Allison Renner  * 'Bianca is Happy All the Time' by Jean Feingold  * 'Unclear Cache' by Scaramanga Silk  * 'Never ignore a flashing light' by Alison Wassell  * 'No one sings carols any more' by Chloe Cook  * 'Seasons of sound and silence' by Sarah Oakes * 'Lost and Found' by Jack Morris  * 'Amusement Parked' by John F King  * 'Meditating about a Carp' by Anne Howkins  * 'Lost' by Michele Catalano  * 'Amanita Sapientia' by Birgit K. Gaiser  * 'Got Lucky' by Michael Pettit  * 'A Day In The Life' by Suzanne Hicks  * 'What’s For Dinner?' by Lucienne Cummings  * 'Time Killer' by Dimitra Fimi * 'On the Bench Nearest the Disabled Parking' by Rachel Burrows  * 'Persephone in the Forest' by Birgit K. Gaiser  * 'Fresh Canvas' by Lenny Eusebi  * 'The Last Hunt Before Winter' by Noah McWilliam  * 'Seasonal Defiance Reorder' by Adele Gallogly  * 'Home for Christmas' by Allison Renner  * 'Bitter and Sweet' by Suzanne Hicks  * 'Teddy Bear Picnic' by Melissa Flores Anderson  * 'The Gift of Gab' by Lisa H. Owens  * 'Ria, Ria, Ria' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar  * 'Would You Rather…?' by Scaramanga Silk  * 'Man’s Best Friend' by Allison Renner  * 'Long Gone, Living On' by Scaramanga Silk  * 'Elapse' by Willow Woo  * 'They Need to Clack' by Philippa Bowe  * 'The News Anchor Read the News, but No One Watched it' by Marzia Rahman  * 'Behind you!' by Jeremy Boyce  * 'Shantay, You Stay' by Elisa Dominique Rivera * 'Missing Note: Wanted' by Kate Axeford * 'August' by Angela James  * 'Check Mate' by Scott MacLeod * 'Suds for Duds' by Lenny Eusebi * 'P.E.' by Melissa Flores Anderson * 'Cleopatra' by Madeleine Armstrong     

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