Bridport Prize adds flash fiction category for 2010

The prestigious Bridport Prize has added a third category for 2010, flash fiction up to 250 words. You can find out more here.

Congratulations

to former Sudden Prose student Thomas Clayton, whose flash fiction "Reeling" is in Leaf Books' new anthology, From the Left and More Micro Fiction. Buy a copy and check it out!

Mslexia looking for flash fiction

Women writers, take note: Mslexia is looking for flash fictions of a maximum 150 words on the theme of "harness." The deadline is 12 February 2010. Further details are available here.

An online journal reviewing short story collections

The Short Review is a monthly online journal that publishes reviews of short story collections and anthologies as well as interviews with short story authors. They also have regular competitions and book giveaways. It's edited by Tania Hershman, author of The White Road and Other Stories (Salt, 2008), a collection of short and short short stories which was longlisted for the Orange Prize.

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!