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I submitted to The Flash Challenge @MastersReview! $1,000 to the winner. Details here: mastersreview.com/flash-challe... Stories that are: #small #powerful
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The Flash Challenge: November 10 – November 23, 2025 - The Masters Review
This November, The Masters Review will host a two-week call for Flash Fiction. The winning submission, selected by The Masters Review's editorial staff, will earn a $1,00 prize along with online publi...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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A drum roll, please...

FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Longlist...

Thank you to all who entered C30.

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November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Free writing competitions in November, list complied by Erica Verrillo. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/10/52-w... #Author #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #WritingCompetitions #EricaVerrillo
52 Writing Contests in November 2025 - No entry fees
This November there are more than four dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes ran...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Essay competition on the theme 'bodies'- Royal Institute of Philosophy. Prizes. Winner £2k. Runner-up £500. Winning essays will be published in Philosophy. Deadline 30th Nov. See website for T&C.

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'Bodies': Our 2025 Philosophy Essay Prize topic - Royal Institute of Philosophy
The topic for this year’s Royal Institute of Philosophy essay prize competition is ‘Bodies’.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize 2026. Competition open for young writers, aged 18-25. First prize £750, second prize of £500. Closing date 19 Nov 25. See website for T&C.

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Literary Prize 2026 – Benjamin Franklin House
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October 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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FFF would like to say a big thank you to all who entered FFF Competition Thirty, and for keeping the flash fiction writing scene vibrant.

Please bear with us as the reading of the entries gets underway!

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Current Competition | Free Flash Fiction
Current Free Flash Fiction Competition
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October 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The prompts have dropped for one of my favourite #WritingCompetitions ... #NotQuiteWritePrize 💜❤️😎 I'm off under the stairs to write by candlelight. I may be a while 🤔📝⏳🕯️😱😂😂

Good luck to anyone taking part 🍀🍀

Anyone interested in having a go or wanting more info go to notquitewritepodcast.com/prize
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry via BACS -
ends 23/10/25

#writingcompetitions #flashfiction

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October 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Ready to submit but swamped by listings? Writers' HQ have done the hard work for us. 5 of the best opportunities for writers this month.

What's stopping you? #WomenWritersNet #blueskywriters #writingcompetitions
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Looking to get your words into the world but completely overwhelmed by a billionty-hundred-squundred competitions and submission listings? WELL LOOK NO FURTHER. We have distilled a whole bunch of literary opportunities for your glorious self.

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October 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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FFF15072022
As chosen by Judge Charles Prelle

Competition Ten Winning Flash Fiction:

Do Everything Your Mama Said Not To
by JP Relph
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Competition Ten Winning Flash Fiction: Do Everything Your Mama Said Not To – Free Flash Fiction
“Don’t slouch, sit nice”   Sprawl over the hot bonnet of his American muscle. Lounge across the back seats of the Greyhound to anywhere, his hand travelling, thighs shakier than your resolve. Flop int...
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October 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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FFF13052022

As chosen by Judge Michelle Christophorou

FFF Competition Nine Winning Flash Fiction:

White Noise
by Charles Prelle
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www.cprellewriter.wordpress.com

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Competition Nine Winning Flash Fiction: White Noise – Free Flash Fiction
I watch as you linger at the western edge of the field. You raise a hand. Pop. Then blackness.   It’s the sound we hear in the womb. It’s a rush of blood, the beating of a heart, a filling and compres...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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FFF19032022

As chosen by Judge Martha Lane

FFF Competition Eight Winning Flash Fiction:

My child speaks with the voice of a swallow
by Michelle Christophorou
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Competition Eight Winning Flash Fiction: My child speaks with the voice of a swallow – Free Flash Fiction
High-pitched, joyful, intermittent. Sometimes no one understands his cries but me. Sometimes I only pretend to understand.   My parents tell me he’ll grow out of it. My friends say they haven’t notice...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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FFF20092021

As chosen by Judge Rachel O'Cleary

FFF Competition Seven Winning Flash Fiction:

The Grievers’ Horror Film Club
by Martha Lane
@marthawrites.bsky.social

marthalane.co.uk

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Competition Seven Winning Flash Fiction: The Grievers’ Horror Film Club – Free Flash Fiction
Before the Grievers' Horror Film Club, the sound of the house settling was enough to scare me. I'd lose whole nights to fear of home invasions, alien landings, burst pipes, fires and axe murderers. Al...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry via BACS -
ends 23/10/25

#writingcompetitions #flashfiction

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September 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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FFF20092021
As chosen by Judge Rosaleen Lynch

FFF Competition Five Winning Flash Fiction:

2He
by Martha Lane
@marthawrites.bsky.social
marthalane.co.uk

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Competition Five Winning Flash Fiction: 2He – Free Flash Fiction
2He   You tell him his dad lives in a balloon now. Makes sense to him, all three of you went into that hospital but only you, he and the balloon came out. Foil stretched taut, shining, bouncing happil...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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FFF16072021
As Chosen by Judge Abi Hennig

FFF Competition Four Winning Flash Fiction:

Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family
by Rosaleen Lynch

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#flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Four Winning Story: Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family – Free Flash Fiction
I buried my imaginary family and Goldilocks under the porch, like in the movies, but easier using an imaginary shovel to dig an imaginary hole that their imaginary bodies would fit in. I couldn't brin...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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FFF19052021

Chosen by Judge Hazel Turner

FFFCompetition Three Winning Story:

The last wolf in Brighton’s in the prize booth on the pier
by Abi Hennig
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#flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Three Winning Flash Fiction: The last wolf in Brighton’s in the prize booth on the pier – Free Flash Fiction
Sometimes, he stares at the picture ticky-tacked to the overhead cupboard door for a solid ten minutes.   Lone wolf he calls it.   Like me, he says.   He rubs at a spot on the counter, invisible to th...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A wonderful opportunity for unagented authors of longform fiction
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walterscottprize.bsky.social Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · Sep 22
#Writers, the Hilary Mantel Prize offers an exceptional new opportunity. The late author, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize, was committed to championing emerging talent, and the winner receives a cash award plus mentoring. Submissions are open through 31 December. See https://loom.ly/NFsTZjE
September 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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FFF12032021

Chosen by Judge Amy O'Neil

FFF Competition Two Winning Flash Fiction:

I hate windows
by Hazel Turner

#writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Two Winning Flash Fiction: I hate windows – Free Flash Fiction
I hate windows. So does mam. “Keep them curtains shut,” she says “and yer trap shut,” so I do. When Uncle Derek comes round and starts, I keep out of it, make my face go empty, like I’ve shut the curt...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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FFF24112020

As Chosen by Judge Tom O'Brien
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FFF Competition One Winning Flash Fiction:

Every Thing We Own
by Amy O'Neil

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September 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry/story via BACS -
ends 23/10/25
Details...
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction

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Current Competition | Free Flash Fiction
Current Free Flash Fiction Competition
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September 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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ICYMI#6

Here it is...

As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou
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The FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Winning Flash Fiction:

All That the Tide Carries
by Harry Humber

#writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Twenty-Nine Winning Flash Fiction: All That the Tide Carries – Free Flash Fiction
He sat with marram grass whispering behind him, blades bowing and lifting again. Far beyond the breakers, grey seals rolled slow in the swell. Salt pressed thick in the air, and under it, the low, wil...
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September 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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ICYMI#5

As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou
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FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Highly Commended:

What Remains, Luminous
by Timothy Collyer
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Twenty-Nine Highly Commended: What Remains, Luminous – Free Flash Fiction
The courier handed me Marlene with a receipt to sign, like delivering takeaway. I slid her into a cobalt-blue jar with a silver lid. We’d had eight years, three flats, two broken hearts—mine early, he...
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September 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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ICYMI#4

As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou
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FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Highly Commended:

The Cosmology of Moths
by Nish X. Hegde
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Twenty-Nine Highly Commended: The Cosmology of Moths – Free Flash Fiction
The moths arrived the night I abandoned God.   First one pressed, trembling, against the pane. The desk lamp that called it reflected in the glass between us like its crown. Then another. Then dozens....
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September 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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ICYMI#3

As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou
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FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Shortlisted:

Trick or Treat
by Alison Wassell
@alisonwassell.bsky.social

#writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Twenty-Nine Shortlisted: Trick or Treat – Free Flash Fiction
You’ve never been one of the cool kids but here you are, a virgin trick or treater with your Wednesday Addams plaits and pilgrim-collared dress, and it doesn’t matter that the others are in hoodies an...
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September 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM