Issue 13 of The Nottingham Review is now available to read online here!
Featuring original short fiction by Jason Jackson, Chelsea Stickle, Richard Berry, Spencer Litman, Sudha Balagopal, Jim Toal, Gerard McKeown, Emily Zido, Alicia Sometimes and Emma Venables.
Call for submissions
We are also now open for submissions of fiction between 100 and 3000 words (no theme) until the end of June. Submission guidelines can be found here.
Fictive Dream is open to submissions and, as always, we’re interested in short stories with a contemporary feel (500 – 2,500 words). We especially like stories that give an insight into the human condition; stories that focus on those moments that change people’s lives. They may be on any subject. They may be challenging, dramatic, playful, exhilarating or cryptic. Above all, they must be well-crafted and compelling.
Check out the Fictive Dream website here.
See our submission guidelines here.
We’re looking forward to receiving your best work!
Laura Black
Editor
Website www.fictivedream.com
Twitter @fictivedream
Instagram fictive.dream
National Flash Fiction Day this year will be on Saturday 15th June Submissions for the 2019 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and micro fiction competition are NOW OPEN!
Anthology
This year’s theme is filled with possibility…or not! Our theme can reveal secrets to us and it can keep danger hidden. Is it trying to keep everyone from getting in, or is it trying to keep you from getting out? Knock, knock, who’s there? It’s our theme: Doors!
We want you to open the door to stories wild with imagination. We’re looking for those creepy mysteries about doors we can’t find the key to. We want those funny tales of frustration when doors do exactly what they’re supposed to when we don’t want them to. Maybe the stories you want to share are about metaphorical doors, filled with the disappointment of doors that are closed to us or brimming with excitement at new opportunities. Whichever door you decide to write about, make sure it’s your best and that is fewer than 500 words!
This year’s editors are Joanna Campbell and Santino Prinzi.
Please submit up to three (3) unpublished flashes of 500 words or fewer before our deadline. Titles are not included in the word count.
The submission fee for this year’s anthology is: £2.50 for one (1) entry, £4.00 for two (2) entries, and £6.00 for three (3) entries.
The deadline is Friday 15th March 2019, 23:59pm GMT.
Please visit our website for the full submission guidelines.
Micro Fiction Competition
Entries are open for this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction competition! This year’s judges are Angela Readman, Diane Simmons, Kevlin Henney, and Judy Darley.
First prize is £75.
Second prize is £50.
Third prize is £25.
The winning and shortlisted authors will be published in the National Flash Fiction Day 2019 anthology. Winning and shortlisted authors will also receive a free print copy of this anthology.
Please submit up to three (3) unpublished micro fictions of 100 words or fewer before our deadline. Titles are not included in the word count and there is no themefor the micro fiction competition.
The entry fee for this year’s micro fiction competition is: £2.00 for one (1) entry, £3.50 for two (2) entries, £5.00 for three (3) entries.
The deadline is Friday 15th March 2019, 23:59pm GMT.
Please visit our website for the full submission guidelines.
Support
In previous years we have had funding and have been able to offer free entry to everyone. Other years, like this year, we do not have funding and have needed to charge a small fee in order to cover our costs so we can continue doing what we do.
We would like offer free entry to disadvantaged and marginalised writers but we do not have the funding we need to be able to do this. We are working to try and secure funding.
If you would like to help us achieve this by donating entries for the anthology or micro competition, please email us: nationalflashfictionday@gmail.com.
Now in it’s seventh year, National Flash Fiction Day will be on Saturday 16th June 2018 and we’ll be celebrating with events and readings and submission opportunities! We’re currently open for our micro-fiction competition and our annual anthology, so get writing!
Micro Competition
From now until Saturday 17th March 2018, you can send us up to three micro fictions on any theme for our Micro fiction competition. These must be 100 words or fewer, and can be on any theme.
More details about the micro completion can be found here: http://nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/comp.html
Anthology
This year’s anthology theme is one you’ll be able to sink your teeth into, and we’re hungry for your flashes! From now until Saturday 31st March 2018, you can send us up to three 500 word flashes on this year’s theme: Food! The anthology will be edited by award-winning writer, Alison Powell, and National Flash Fiction Day Co-Director, Santino Prinzi. Your stories must be 500 words or fewer.
We’re looking for stories inspired by and about whatever’s on your plate. We’re ready to salivate over your sentences, to savour the subtle flavours of your subtext, to devour your delicious dialogue. Sweet, sour, savoury, sharp, tangy, rich, or rotten. Serve us up some scrumptious tales and tantalising treats with tasty twists. Are we all becoming too healthy? Or is suet the main dish of the day? Has a friendship been ruined by raw chocolate? We’re looking for full-fat, jam-packed flash fiction with an aftertaste we won’t forget. Feel free to interpret the theme of “food” however you wish, but your flashes must fit the theme in some way.
More details about the anthology submissions can be found here: http://nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/anth.html
We can’t wait to feast upon your words!
flash & cinder is a new literary magazine dedicated to flash fiction and poetry encircling a single idea. Our first issue, Spirit, is due to be formally released in July 2018 to start of our summer/winter alternation. We love writing that pushes boundaries and dares to experiment.
We’ve already received bounties of wonderful flash fiction and poetry, but we’re always interested in reading more. We love literary magazines such as Smokelong Quarterly Magazine, New Flash Fiction Review and Magma Poetry, and want to build something that will eventually stand proudly among them.
We are open for submissions for our very first issue now! If you have flash fiction or poetry on the theme of Spirit, we’d love to read it. Poems may be up to and including 32 lines long, while flash fiction can only be up to 750 words.
If you’re interested, please submit up to three pieces to flashandcinder@gmail.com. Submissions close March 31st 2018.
We look forward to reading your work.
flash & cinder
Fictive Dream is open to submissions of short stories and flash fiction (500 – 2,500 words). As always, we’re interested in material with a contemporary feel. Your stories may be on any subject. They may be challenging, dramatic, playful, exhilarating or cryptic. Above all, they must be well-crafted and compelling.
Check out the Fictive Dream website here.
Look at our submission guidelines here.
We’re looking forward to receiving your best work!
Laura Black
Editor
New from Fictive Dream is Flash Fiction February in which we will feature a new piece of flash fiction throughout February 2018. That’s a new story every day starting on 1 February for the entire month.
As always we’re interested in stories with a contemporary feel but for Flash Fiction February we’re putting a squeeze on the word count so only stories between 250 – 750 words please. Deadline December 31 2017.
Check out the Fictive Dream website here.
See out Flash Fiction February submission guidelines here.
For standard submissions we remain open as usual.
We’re looking forward to receiving your best!
Laura Black
Editor
Website http://www.fictivedream.com
Twitter @FictiveDream
Spelk is looking for new flash fiction of around 500 words. We publish three stories a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. What do we like? Check us out at spelkfiction.com.
Email your story to Cal Marcius at spelkfiction@gmx.com (subject line: SUBMISSIONS — “STORY TITLE”).
Cal Marcius
Editor
New from Fictive Dream is Flash Fiction February in which we will feature a new piece of flash fiction throughout February 2018. That’s a new story every day starting on 1 February for the entire month.
As always we’re interested in stories with a contemporary feel but for Flash Fiction February we’re putting a squeeze on the word count so only stories between 250 – 750 words please. Deadline December 31 2017.
Check out the Fictive Dream website here.
See out Flash Fiction February submission guidelines here.
For standard submissions we remain open as usual.
We’re looking forward to receiving your best!
Laura Black
Editor
Website: www.fictivedream.com
Twitter: @Fictive Dream
V. Press is v. v. delighted to have opened its flash fiction submission window.
The press specialises in short fiction pamphlets, poetry pamphlets and poetry collections – publishing poetry and short fiction that is very very.
For more information about the press and the kind of writing we love, please see our website at http://vpresspoetry.blogspot.co.uk/.
Please make sure that you read and follow the submission guidelines before sending your work. These can be found at http://vpresspoetry.blogspot.co.uk/p/submissions.html.
The V. Press flash fiction (NOT poetry) submissions window is open until July 24, 2017.
TOKEN Magazine is calling for submissions for Issue 2, and this time we have a theme – BODIES. This can be interpreted as you wish.
We are accepting:
– Fiction/Non-fiction of up to 2500 words (maximum 2 pieces per submission).
– Artwork/Photography (maximum 4 pieces per submission) and a summary of your work to go alongside the piece(s).
– Illustrations – please send across recent illustrations, and once we have the writing sorted you will be given briefs.
With your submission we ask that you please also include your biography (max 200 words). If it is not obvious please can you also write why you feel you are under-represented in the arts and literature. It is important that you do this as we want Issue 2 to have as many diverse voices as possible.
Send your submissions to tokenmagazine@gmail.com by 15 July 2017 (midnight). Any submissions after this time will not be accepted.
Please note:
– We are not accepting poetry or academic essays for this issue.
– We are not accepting works published online or in print before, or that are currently under consideration.
– All contributors will get a complimentary copy of the magazine.
– This is a not-for-profit magazine.
Please follow the instructions above, if you do not your piece may not be considered.
For more information about TOKEN Magazine please see our website here or follow us on twitter here
Issue 7 of The Nottingham Review is now available to read online here.
Featuring original short fiction by Chloe Turner, Fiona J. Mackintosh, Anton Rose, Charles Haddox, Shannon McLeod, Rachel Wild, Kimberly Paulk, Jenny Bhatt, Neil Bristow, Mike Fox, Sonia Hope, and Bryn Agnew. Poetry by Adam Tavel, Ariel Clark-Semyck, Matthew Lippman, Sarah Escue, Jacq Greyja, and Benjamin Hertwig.
Call for submissions
We are open for submissions until the end of May. In our first themed issue we are exploring COURAGE. Controlling fear in dangerous or difficult situations. Having the confidence to be yourself. Doing or saying what you think is right despite opposition. Facing suffering with dignity or faith. Courage can be physical or moral, and come in many sizes and shapes. Fiction between 100-3000 words and poetry.
Submission guidelines can be found here.
Calling all doodlers, ponderers, writers, poets and dreamers!
Submit a short story for a chance to be part of an exciting and unique, collaborative public art project in Redcliffe, Bristol.
Following the success of the Bristol Story Trail earlier in the year, get ready for Future Way brought to you by Dream of a Shadow, an online project bridging the gap between reality and fantasy through storytelling.
Working with The Redcliffe Neighbourhood Development Forum (@MoreRedcliffe), Future Way seeks to engage the people of Redcliffe and the wider community of Bristol through a playful and exciting exploration of the area using storytelling.
This is an amazing opportunity for published authors and budding writers in Bristol to collaborate with artists, architects and community groups in a first-of-its-kind, art project which challenges the way we view our city.
Contributors are encouraged to think about how Redcliffe may be used in the future and set tales within this. Because of the nature of the project, the brief is quite specific and submissions must meet the following criteria:
The deadline for submissions is Monday 20th April 2015, so there’s plenty of time to get writing.
Please look at the website for the full brief before getting the pens out!
For any queries tweet us @DoaSLiveFiction and be sure to follow to stay up to date!
Happy writing and good luck!
Greetings, short story lovers!
Here’s what’s been on a packed ShortStops blog over the past few weeks…
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Live Lit
We welcome a new live lit event to our list, Verbose, Manchester: “bring words to the ‘burbs – prose and poetry, with special guests and an open mic”.
Verbose invite you to their first event, Jan 26th. White Rabbit want your short stories for their Curioser and Curioser storytelling tea party on Feb 20th in London. Stand-Up Tragedy’s next event, Tragic Winter, is in London on Feb 28th and they are calling for submissions for the SUT blog.
Lit Mags
We’re delighted that 2 new lit mags have joined our list: Trafika Europe, which “brings you some of the best new literature from Europe… and later in 2015 the first “online” literary radio station”; and Shooter Literary Magazine, “supporting emerging writers of literary fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and narrative journalism”. Welcome, both!
Shooter Literary Magazine is already blogging, with a call for submissions for Issue #2, on the theme of ‘Union.’ On the theme of themes, Brain of Forgetting’s first issue, Stones, is now available, and submissions for Issue 2 open shortly. Neon Magazine has opened submissions for Battery Pack II, its second anthology of tiny stories. Other mags still want your stories too: The Manchester Review has is calling for your submissions. Jotters United is calling for submissions.
Anthologies
Freight Books wants short story submissons for an anthology inspired by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.
Competitions & Festivals
Ann Summers has launched an erotic fiction-writing competition, deadline Jan 23rd, so get your skates on! The Short FICTION short story prize is open for entries, deadline March 31st, as are the Felixtstowe Book Festival’s 2015 short story competition, deadline May 16th and The Moth’s International Short Story Prize, deadline June 30th. Words and Women announced the winners of their writing competition.
Workshops and Courses
Clevedon Community Bookshop is holding a flash fiction workshop taught by Gail Aldwin this Thurs, Jan 22nd. Paul McVeigh is running a one-day workshop on That Killer First Page- Submitting to Competitions and Journals, in London on Jan 31st. Alison Clayborn is running a Focus on Fiction course at the Brunel Museum in London.
And Ireland has a new national residential writing centre – The Story House in County Waterford, which is running a short story course from Mar 23-28th.
Last Minutes and Gentle Reminders
You have until Jan 23rd to submit stories on the theme of ‘Outsiders’ to Popshot, and January 25th is the deadline for prose pamphlet submissions for The Emma Press.
If you are eager for even more short-story-related news, do follow ShortStops on Twitter where, when we should be writing, we spend (far too) much time passing on news from lit mags, live lit events, short story workshops and festivals! If you’d like to review an event or a publication, drop me a line.
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