National Flash Fiction Day Micro-fiction competition, deadline 15 February 2023

Open now for entries and this year, a CWG member is one of the judges:

Competition

National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition Submission Guidelines

Submissions for our 2023 Microfiction Competition are open from 1 December 2022 to 15 February 2023.

Submissions are OPEN for this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition!

We are looking for work of up to 100 words on any theme and will be awarding:

• £150 for first place
• £100 for second place
• £50 for third place
• seven awards of £20 for highly commended pieces.

The winning and highly commended authors will be published in the National Flash Fiction Day 2023 anthology. Winning and shortlisted authors will also receive a free print copy of this anthology.

Please note that we cannot accept simultaneous submissions this year.  Please only submit work that is not and will not be under consideration elsewhere before 15 March 2023.  By submitting work to the NFFD Microfiction Competition, you are agreeing to publication online and in the 2023 NFFD Anthology if your work is selected as a prizewinner or highly commended flash.

This year’s judges are:

• Tim Craig
• Amanda Huggins
• Fiona J. Mackintosh
• Johanna Robinson

Read more about our judges here.

Submission Guidelines

Note: these are the submission guidelines for the 2023 Microfiction Competition.  The NFFD Anthology is a separate project with a separate team.  You can find the guidelines for the anthology here.

2022 Microfiction Competition

1. Please submit up to three (3) unpublished flashes of 100 words or fewer before our deadline. Titles are not included in the word count, and there is no minimum word count.
2. Please submit all your work in ONE email, inserting up to three micro fictions in ONE document. This helps the organisers tremendously. Of course, if you submit and then decide to send more work later in the submission window, mulitple submissions are fine.
3. Please send your work to nffdmicrocomp@gmail.com. Accepted document formats are .doc, .docx, .odt and .rtf .  (If your piece relies heavily on specific formatting that is not supported by these formats, feel free to include a .pdf in addition.)
4. Entries will be read and judged anonymously. To avoid disqualification, please do not put your name, address, email, telephone number or any personally identifying information on your document.
5. In your email, please tell us how you would like your name/pen name to appear alongside your story and in announcements online.
6. All styles and themes are welcome.  There is no theme for the Microfiction Competition.
7. Submissions open on 1 December 2022 00:01 GMT and close on 15 February 2023, 23:59pm GMT.  We will announce the results on or before 15 March 2023.
8. We do not accept simultaneous submissions.  Please do not send us work that is or will be under consideration elsewhere before 15 March 2023.
9. We only accept unpublished work. We do not class stories posted on private blogs, social media pages, or online groups (such as in workshopping forums, online courses etc.), as previously published.
10. Submissions are open internationally. Although we anonymise submissions, we actively encourage submissions by writers from underrepresented groups, such as BAME, LGBTQ+, and disabled writers.

The submission fee for this year’s anthology is:

• £2.00 for one (1) entry.
• £3.75 for two (2) entries.
• £5.25 for three (3) entries.