Monday 14 December 2009
Mslexia looking for flash fiction
Sunday 13 December 2009
An online journal reviewing short story collections
Tuesday 8 December 2009
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.
Monday 16 November 2009
Rose Metal Press Competition for Pamphlet/Chapbook of Short-Short Stories
Flash Magazine at the University of Chester
Friday 23 October 2009
Forthcoming books for Sudden Prose at Bath Spa
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Flash fiction with teenaged main characters wanted NOW
Monday 21 September 2009
Another kind of sudden prose, the short nonfiction essay
Wednesday 2 September 2009
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.
Monday 17 August 2009
New Sudden Prose titles for Autumn '09
---. The Harbour Beyond the Movie. Salt, 2007.
---. The Migraine Hotel. Salt, 2009.
Rhodes, Dan. Don’t Tell Me the Truth About Love. Canongate, 2005.
Young, Gary. No Other Life. Heyday Books, 2005.
---. Pleasure: Poems. Heyday Books, 2006.
---. Braver Deeds. Gibbs M. Smith, 1999.
There will also be another magazine among the periodicals for Sudden Prose writers (in addition to Quick Fiction and Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics):
Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. (http://www.chester.ac.uk/flash.magazine/)