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New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2025

Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Friday 31st January 2025

  • Entry Fee: £10 (one entry), £19 (two entries), £27 (three entries)
  • Prizes: 1st Place: £1,100; 2nd Place: £300; 3rd Place: £200
  • Head Judge: Shreya Sen-Handley (Author, Columnist, Playwright and Illustrator)
  • Publication: The three winning entries will be published on the NewWriters.org.uk website and in a future New Writers Anthology
  • Word Limit: 300 (excluding title and line spaces)
  • Charity: £1 from each entry will be donated to First Story (England’s leading creative writing charity for young people)
  • Enter here - newwriters.org.uk/flash-fiction-competition/

The New Writers Website has great resources and an up to date competition listing.. newwriters.org.uk/writing-competitions-list

 

 

 

   

Creative Writing Ink is a great resource for writers - they offer on-line writing courses for all levels, they offer proofreading and critique services and help with self publishing...

www.creativewritingink.co.uk

 

And Creative Writing Ink have a new international short story competition open for entries.

All the details and a link are below:

Name: Creative Writing Ink Short Story Competition 2024

Country: UK (open to entries worldwide)

Closing date: November 15th, 2024 at 4pm (GMT)

Results announced by December 15th, 2024

1st prize: £1000, a free creative writing course of the winners choice and publication on our website.

Runners-up: £200 each.

Entry fee: £9

Word count: 3000 words maximum.

Open theme/subject/genre

Link: https://creativewritingink.co.uk/creative-writing-ink-short-story-competition-2024/

 

 

A great resource for writers is the Christopher Fielden website.

The site is packed full of writing tips, publishing advice, free writing resources and an extensive writing competitions list.

FFF recommend you bookmark the following links.

www.christopherfielden.com

www.christopherfielden.com / flash-fiction-competitions

 

 

SmokeLong Quarterly. Please head over to the SmokeLong website where you can find out more about competitions and links to previous winners smokelong.com.

 

 

A good place for competition information is Almond Press..

https://dystopianstories.com/writing-competitions-contests/

 

 

The Writers college offers a variety of on-line writing courses..

Below is from The Writers College website...

'Today, we have a global college, three country-specific colleges, UK, South Africa and New Zealand, 22 international tutors, 35 writing courses, and thousands of successful graduates.'

www.ukwriterscollege.co.uk

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