Ambit 200 Words Competition

"Ambit magazine 200 words poetry and prose competition

To celebrate our 200th issue Ambit invites you to enter our 200 WORDS COMPETITION! Judged by Ambit writers Naomi Foyle and David Gaffney.

Send us poems or prose of 200 words* for a chance to win!

1st prize: £500
2nd prize: £200
3rd prize: £75

What sort of writing does Ambit like? Buy a copy to find out. Better yet, subscribe!

Entries cost £4 for the first one, and £3 for subsequent entries.

(*no shorter than 196, no longer that 204. This includes the title!)

Closing date is 15 February 2010."

You can find the entry form on Ambit's website.

Rose Metal Press Competition for Pamphlet/Chapbook of Short-Short Stories

Details are here; the competition deadline is 1 December 2009.

Flash Magazine at the University of Chester

A wonderful new venue for flash fiction up to 360 words--check it out!

Forthcoming books for Sudden Prose at Bath Spa

These are to improve our holdings in prose poetry and have just been ordered. I'd be glad for suggestions for short-short story collections beyond what we already have.

Jamey Dunham, The Bible of Lost Pets. Salt, 2009.

Gary Young, Pleasure: Poems. Heyday Books, 2006.

Ian Seed. Anonymous Intruder. Shearsman, 2009.

Peter Riley, Greek Passages. Shearsman, 2009.

Lesle Lewis, Small Boat. Iowa University Press, 2003.

Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End. Mariner, 1989.

Charles Simic, Selected Poems 1983-2001. Faber, 2004.

Flash fiction with teenaged main characters wanted NOW

"Persea Books is looking for flash fiction, stories of no more than 1000 words, with teenaged main characters, for a Persea anthology that will be used in schools and colleges, as well as sold in bookstores. We're reading now…and the deadline is now! So send asap to info@perseabooks.com"

Another kind of sudden prose, the short nonfiction essay

There are journals for prose poems and journals for short-short stories, and now there's one for short-short essays. Brevity is dedicated to nonfiction pieces of 750 words or fewer and features both established and emerging authors, and for those looking to hone their work, there's a section on craft with essays with much more precise advice than most of what can be found online.

Leaf Books Microfiction Competition 2009

Here are the details:

Enter online and pay via PayPal, or by post. If entering online, after making your payment you can send us your entry as an attachment (.doc or .rtf only, please – we can’t open .docx or .wps files) to contact@leafbooks.co.uk.

Entry fee: £3 per entry; four entries for £10

1st prize: £100, copy of the anthology and collection of Leaf pocket-books.

Runner-up: copy of the anthology and collection of Leaf pocket-books.

The winning piece, runner-up and selected commended entries will be published in an anthology.

Closing date – September 30th 2009

Results announced October 2009.

www.leaf-books.co.uk