Submit your flash fiction below
- please note Free Flash Fiction only accept flash fiction pieces with a maximum word count of 500 and a minimum word count of 100
We look forward to receiving your work
Please read the Submission Guidelines
Make sure to add your email address, and please only send one flash fiction piece at a time - thank you.
Submission Guidelines
- Free Flash Fiction publish Flash Fiction stories of no less than 100 and no more than 500 words.
- Entrants must be 16 years or over.
- Submissions are open to writers worldwide but stories must be written in English.
- Entry is open to everyone; locally, nationally and internationally.
- An entry can only be made that is the work of the individual submitting author.
- Entries must be fiction but can be on any subject, and written in any style or form.
- To submit your flash fiction, either write or copy your flash into the copy box. If you get a message that your flash is over 3000 characters when it is a maximum of 500 words, go to File upload, choose the file you want to add, and then submit.
- Entries can be accepted in the following formats: Microsoft Word Document (.doc or .docx), OpenDocument Text (.odt), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and Text Document (.txt).
- Worldwide copyright of any flash fiction / story remains with the author.
- Free Flash Fiction do not accept submissions of flash fiction written or created using AI software or AI applications.
- Free Flash Fiction uses accompanying images with the flash fiction stories we publish. We use royalty-free photos, art and/or illustrations created by artists. Free Flash no longer allows the use of AI-produced/generated images/photos.
- Due to the high volume of submissions Free Flash Fiction receive, we regret that it can take up to three months to send a response.
- Please include a contact email address with your submission.
- Free Flash Fiction accept submissions of flash fiction stories ( between 100 and 500 words ) published anywhere else - but if we agree to publish that submission - Free Flash Fiction would like to know, via the author, if Free Flash Fiction need permission from the previous publisher - before Free Flash Fiction publish.
- Simultaneous submissions accepted - please let us know if your work gets accepted elsewhere.
- Please include a short third-person biography along with your flash fiction piece.
- Submitting to Free Flash Fiction does not guarantee the publication of your work.
- Please only submit one flash fiction at a time.
Illustration by Mander Ellis (@mander.ellis). Mander's written and visual work are both included on the free flash fiction website
Are you an illustrator? would you like your work to accompany a free flash fiction text? Please get in touch via the contact page if so...