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New2theScene Flash Fiction Competition 2025
Opens: 6th April 2025
Closes: 1st June 2025
Fee: £5
Word limit: 999
Genre: Any - whatever inspires you!
Eligibility: All welcome (published authors to amateurs)
Judge: Guest author
First prize: Interview for the New2theScene podcast; £50 New2theScene vouchers; ‘Origins’ blog’; author bio and work featured on the New2theScene website; social media promotion; publication in an anthology; possible future projects not advertised on the site.
Notable mentions: £15 New2theScene vouchers; possible publication in anthology; possible future projects not advertised on the site.
For more info - www.new2thescene.co.uk/competition-information
Gail Brown writes paired science fiction internal journey stories and novels full of hopes and dreams.
She found fiction and science fiction bring hope and light to a world of colorful dreams. A world where disability was accepted, people lived their lives without overwork and fear.
Gail's paired stories mirror daily life as it could be. Perhaps should be, in some ways. Her novels are on her website, and short stories have appeared in Alien Dimensions, Bards and Sages, Earth 2100 (Other Worlds Ink), Kaleidoscope, Lorelei Signal, and The Neurodiversiverse Anthology, among others.
See more on her website - Uncovered Myths
New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2025
- Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Wednesday 30th April 2025
- Entry Fee: £8 (one entry), £15 (two entries), £21 (three entries)
- Prizes: 1st Place: £500; 2nd Place: £200; 3rd Place: £100, 4th-10th Place: £50
- Judges: Editorial team at NewWriters.org.uk
- Publication: The top-10 winning entries will be published on the NewWriters.org.uk website and in the New Writers Anthology 2025
- Word Limit: 100 (excluding title and line spaces)
- Charity: 10% of proceeds will be split equally between First Storyand The Funzi & Bodo Trust
Enter here.. https://newwriters.org.uk/100-word-competition/
OPENS 1st of FEBRUARY, 2025 ( open to international entries )
CLOSES 31st of MAY, 2025
THEME: MARTIAL ARTS
Entry form
Terms and Conditions
This year Albury Wodonga Martial Arts (AWMA) is celebrating our 10th year! Amongst our special events we are including a writing competition on the theme of Martial Arts with our friends at Martial Artists Magazine Australia publishing the winning entries.
It can be either fiction or non-fiction and you don’t have to be a martial artist to enter. It could be a story featuring martial arts or you could write an essay about an aspect of training. Or a piece about what martial arts means to you. Whatever you like, as long as martial arts are a central part and you treat it with respect.
Make sure you read the terms and conditions so that your entry will be accepted for judging.
Proceeds after entry fees and expenses will go to an amazing local organization, Yes Unlimited. This not-for-profit organisation has been delivering services for more than 40 years. They aim to build thriving communities and focus on working with young people, people experiencing homelessness and families escaping domestic and family violence. As a family focused dojo, we value the work that organisations such as Yes, Unlimited do to help the most vulnerable in our community.
We are pleased to announce our judges:
| Vanessa McKay | Publications Manager of Martial Arts Magazine Australia |
| Noah Legel | Renshi 4th Dan Owner of Illinois Practical Karate |
| Justin Colbert | Renshi 5th Dan Owner of Albury Wodonga Martial Arts |
In addition to the prizes in each category, any entrant who can attend classes in either Wodonga or Beechworth is eligible to perhaps win the local prize of 6 weeks of free lessons. Or the winner can elect someone to take the lessons instead. So, if you would like to try martial arts or you would like a taste of a different style to your own, don’t forget to tick the LOCAL box on the entry form!
Categories:
- Open : Aged 16 and Above
Entry Fee: $10
Maximum words: 1,000
First: $200 & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98)
Second: $100 & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98)
Third: $50 & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98)
- 10 to 15 years old
Entry Fee: $5
Maximum words: 750
First: $100 Harvey Norman Gift Voucher & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98)
Second: $50 & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98)
Third: $25 & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98
- 9 years and under
Entry Fee: $5
Maximum words: 750
First: $100 & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98)
Second: $50 & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98)
Third: $25 & 2-year digital subscription to Martial Arts Magazine (value $98)
LOCAL AWARD (one prize only)
6 x weeks free classes with Albury Wodonga Martial Arts
The winner of this award, or a person that the winner elects, must be able to attend classes in either Wodonga or Beechworth.
Results will be announced during the birthday celebrations in July. The date is yet to be confirmed.
Entry form
Terms and Conditions
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...
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 / 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.'