Current Contests
Monthly Flash Contest
Our Flash Contest runs every month, in the first week of the month: click the link or visit the Monthly Flash Contest Winners’ Roll page for details of the current month and past winners. Alternatively, pick up the first Weekly Creativity Prompt of the month here. Each month, submit your response to the first prompt of the month by midday PST on the Sunday of the same week of the contest announcement. Up to 5 Winners will be chosen for publication on our Blog and the Winners’ names and and up to 5 Honorable Mentions will be announced in our Saturday Newsletter. Find all the details in the Monthly Flash Contest & Winners’ Roll post below, and submit at our Submittable site, via this link.
Past Contests
The rest of this page contains the history of all our past contests, the winners, and their work.
Congratulations to our 2018 Short Short (Flash) Fiction Contest Winners!
First Place ($50): “The Pendulum” by Sabrina Guo, 12 Second Place ($25): “The Sycamore Tree” by Mira Johnson, 8 Third ...
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Contest for Summer 2018: Concrete Poetry
For this contest, we want you to create a piece of visual art made with words. Many readers understand a ...
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Short Short Fiction, or Flash Fiction Contest
For this contest, we want you to try to craft a tiny story (300 words or less!) that tells a ...
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Congratulations to our 2018 Science Fiction Contest Winners!
First Place ($80): "Middlenames" by Thomas Faulhaber, 13 Second Place ($40): "Young Eyes" by Allie Aguila, 12 Third Place ($20): "The ...
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Selfie Contest Runners-Up
You may remember that a few months ago we held a Selfie Contest. Though we announced the winner then, we ...
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Science Fiction Contest PDF
Have you heard that we're having a Science Fiction story contest? If you'd like to know more details, please check ...
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