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mattkendrick.bsky.social
We. Are. A. Go.

The @welkinprize.bsky.social is open for another year, bigger and better (hopefully!) than ever before.

Can't wait to read what gets sent in. Always such a pleasure.
welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 1d
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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welkinprize.bsky.social
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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prairiefiremag.bsky.social
We're giving folks an extra day if you need it to send in contest entries! (Is it just us or has November been like, 30 seconds long this year?)

If you need extra time, the final deadline is now December 1st!

Contest details: prairiefire.ca/conte...
Image shows contest information, three copies of past contest issues, the PF and McNally Robinson Booksellers logo and an illustration of a typewriter with leaves coming out the back. Text: McNally Robinson Booksellers & Prairie Fire Writing Contests 2025 Annual Writing Contests $3750 in cash prizes! One cash prize of $1250 in each category. MRB Poetry Contest (up to three poems per entry, max. 150 lines total) Judge: Tolu Oloruntoba MRB Short Fiction Contest (one piece per entry, max 5000 words) Judge: Shashi Bhat MRB Creative Non-Fiction Contest (one piece per entry, max 5000 words) Judge: Basma Kavanagh Deadline Extended to December 1st, 2025 Fee: $34 per entry, which includes a one-year subscription to Prairie Fire. Complete guidelines at prairiefire.ca. For inquiries: prfire@prairiefire.ca
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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rodduncan.bsky.social
And here's the Three Swans pub signboard again. This time against the evening sky. I had a lovely time at the Harborough creative writing competition prize giving. Some talented writers. It was a pleasant challenge to judge the short story competition.
Three Swans Pub sign against the darkening blue of the evening sky.
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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cklovewrites.bsky.social
I'm a finalist! In the Moonlit Getaway @mgliterary.bsky.social inaugural contest! For my short story, "The Last Lover". Yay!

#BookSky 📚 #CanadaSky 🇨🇦 #CanadaBookSky 🇨🇦📚 #CanadaWrites ✍️ #MoonlitGetAway #shortstory #amwriting #writingcommunity
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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bnadeauwriter.bsky.social
Congratulations to the 2025 MoonLit Getaway Short Fiction Contest Finalists!
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November 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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freeflashfiction.bsky.social
If you write or read flash fiction ( or entered Comp 30 ), FFF recommend you read the brilliant...

FFF Competition Thirty Judge's Report by Nish X. Hegde.

@nishxhegde.bsky.social

#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#writingcompetitions

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FFF Competition Thirty Judge’s Report by Nish X. Hegde | Free Flash Fiction
FFF Competition Thirty Judge's Report by Nish X. Hegde   26th November 2025   Introduction:           Being invited to contribute to this competition is a true honour. I feel fortunate to have encount...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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freeflashfiction.bsky.social
As chosen by Judge Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

The FFF Competition Thirty Winning Flash Fiction!

After Dinner
by Caroline McKenzie

#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#shortfiction #fiction #writing #writingcompetitions

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Competition Thirty Winning Flash Fiction: After Dinner – Free Flash Fiction
My mother-in-law clears the empty plates. I offer to help, but she doesn’t look up. Her words flutter like napkins; no, thank you, she can manage. I wonder if she would have spoken at all if manners h...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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thejokelark.bsky.social
Sub opportunity for climate writing:

www.europeana.eu/en/stories/e...
Europeana Creative Climate Action Award - Enter our creative writing competition before 11 January 2026
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of climate action imagery. Prizes and publication for the winners!
www.europeana.eu
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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maureenlangloss.bsky.social
It’s nice to get a tiny piece of good news when you’re sick and grumpy. Grateful to American Short Fiction. Sending congratulations to the winners. This story is in my collection which I hope to share someday.
Dear Maureen Langloss, Thank you for submitting "[redacted]" to The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize. While your submission did not make the final short list, it was selected for a list of contest semi-finalists. Your work stood out as one of our strongest submissions, and we hope you will submit to us again.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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newwritersuk.bsky.social
The New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026 is open to entries. newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio...

Top prize: £1,100.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
10% of proceeds donated to charity, split between @firststory.bsky.social and the Funzi & Bodo Trust

#writingcompetition #flashfiction
New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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writesofkathryn.bsky.social
So happy & grateful to be chosen for this contest! 🥰
The Sunlight Press 2025 Flash Fiction Contest winner: Kathryn Kulpa, “Sam & Ruby on the Brink.”
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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dawnwriter.bsky.social
Thrilled to win Second Prize in @thesunlightpress.bsky.social Flash Fiction Contest! Thank you to the readers and judge @kelliborges2.bsky.social for this honour!❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #litmag #shortstory #writing
thesunlightpress.bsky.social The Sunlight Press @thesunlightpress.bsky.social · 12d
Our judge Kelli Borges shares her insights on all the winning stories. Find out our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest second and third place winners.

Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!

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November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
After selecting a shortlist of six stories from thousands of entries, we are thrilled to announce Renesha Dhanraj as the winner of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025, for her story, ‘Black Cake’.

Read more here: thelondonmagazine.org/renesha-dhan...
Renesha Dhanraj wins The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine
The judges of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 award first place to Renesha Dhanraj for her story, 'Black Cake'.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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natflashfictionday.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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newpages.bsky.social
🚨 New contest alert! Submit to the Susan Neville Prizes in Fiction & Poetry from Booth.
🏆 $1,000 + publication
🖊️ Judges: Kaveh Akbar & Paige Lewis
📅 Deadline: Dec 31
📎 $20 entry (includes 2-issue subscription)

#WritingContest #writers
The 2025 Susan Neville Prizes in Fiction & Poetry
Booth Journal is accepting submissions for the 2025 Susan Neville Prizes in Fiction and Poetry. Winners receive $1,000 and publication.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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weirdxmas.bsky.social
Why you'll probably see me ask for money this year. (Apart from the fact that I lost a job earlier this year....heh heh)

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How to Contribute… Money, I mean. Fat stacks.
The story show (old: contest, now: ConThology, or anthology or whatever) takes money to do well. And fairly. When I started, I paid most people…nothing. Or $5. But most people who weren&#8217…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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timothyfox.bsky.social
ICYMI, my horror story ‘We Were Never Afraid of the Spider’ won 1st place in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monster contest and you can read it here:

themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/flash...
The Molotov Cocktail
We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox Our third-grade teacher was named Mrs. Winters. She wore glasses that magnified her green and blue and green eyes. Her hair was a dried hornet’s ne…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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jgilbride.bsky.social
My New Year’s resolution was to have my first piece of fiction published in 2025, and wow! My first story placed 4th in the Flash Monster contest at @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

Read it along with the other winners!! 👻
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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weirdxmas.bsky.social
Do you like to enjoy Christmas by being horrified, disillusioned, and ontologically unsettled? Sure! We all do! That's why you'll submit to this year's Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest/Anthology!!!

weirdchristmas.com/2025/10/30/a...
Announcing the EIGHTH Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology!
Yes, the (non) contest is alive, and, yes, it’s late. It’s been a rough year, and I’ve lost a lot of the time for REAL work because of all that half-ass work that actually pays. I had to figure out…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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smokelong.bsky.social
Deadline!!!!! Midnight ET tonight! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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bridportprize.bsky.social
🗞️ NEWSFLASH 🗞️

Our competition is officially open!

All need-to-knows at bridportprize.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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smokelong.bsky.social
Day zero or day one, today is the deadline for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Ends midnight tonight. Send your best 250 words (or fewer). #TheMikey. ❤️
smokelong.bsky.social SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 18d
#TheMikey deadline is this Saturday Nov. 15, midnight NYC. However you count the days (you can see how bad we are at it), you can't choose your own ending for this, sadly, but you CAN choose to send us your 250-word story—top prizes $1,000/$500/$300; finalists $100; all published in December's SLQ.
Choose-your-own-adventure style fake book cover. Text reads: Choose your own countdown TM. The adventure ends this Saturday, midnight NYC (however we count it). The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Deadline this Saturday. Closing November 15 midnight NYC. In the arch shaped space in the middle where the CYOA graphic usually sits, there is a collage of whatsapp messages between two SmokeLong editors who are best friends, arguing quite intensely about how to calculate contest countdowns and saying it's out by 8 days/it ended two days early last time, etc. ending with 'love you. love you too. We'll fix it somehow.'
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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freeflashfiction.bsky.social
A nice fast drum roll, please...

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

Thank you to all who entered C30.

#writingcompetitions #flashfiction

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Competition Thirty Shortlist | Free Flash Fiction
Competition Thirty Shortlist As Chosen by Judge Nish X. Hegde   After Dinner by Caroline McKenzie Aspirations by Joanna Miller Dream Catcher by Karen Arnold Mama Says by Emma Phillips Sap by Stuart Ca...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Congratulations to our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest Long List Nominees! Stay tuned for the winner on Monday!
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM