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
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 fiction will strive not to use AI-produced 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...