Flash Fiction Writing Contest - May 2009
*See all of our writing contests
Purpose: Have fun, enjoy the competition, and become a better author by participating in the peer critique process portion of this contest. Learn more about flash fiction.
Who Can Enter: This contest is open to all authors. All submissions must be posted and assigned critiques completed by May 25, 2009. Stories must be 1000 words or fewer. You may post additional stories to this site for critique, but only one story will be eligible for the contest.
Subject Matter: You choose. The flash fiction should adhere to our content policy.
Prizes: The winner of this contest will receive $50.
How to Enter: It’s pretty easy
- Create a free account or sign in for existing members.
- Upload your story; make sure you select “Flash Fiction Writing Contest” as the category.
- Submit your work for peer critique.
- Complete your assigned reviews, this is discussed more below.
Decisions: There will be 2 rounds of judging.
- Authors from the Review Fuse staff will select the 3 best works for Round 2.
- Of these 3 works selected, Review Fuse management will select the winning authors based on who gave the most detailed and well thought out critiques to their peer’s.
Entry Fee: There are no entry fees or purchases of any kind required to enter and win the contest. After you submit your work to the contest you will be required to complete assigned critiques of other authors (4 for free members and 3 for premium members). You will receive 3 critiques of your work in return. Those who do not complete their critiques will not be eligible to win the contest.
Rights: All stories remain the sole property of the author. After we have selected the winner we will seek permission from the author to publish the winning work on our blog. The author is under no obligation to allow this.
Notification: The prize winner will be notified by email on May 30, 2009. We will announce the prize winner on our blog on June 1, 2009.
Stumble it!
April 11th, 2009 at 11:24 am
[...] Website http://www.reviewfuse.com/blog/2009/04/flash-fiction-writing-contest-may-2009/ Fee to enter $0 Prizes [...]
April 19th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
[...] FREE flash fiction contest http://www.reviewfuse.com/blog/2009/04/flash-fiction-writing-contest-may-2009/ [...]
April 30th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I’ve entered the Flash Fiction Contest, but I’m confused why many of the pieces I’ve reviewed are over the 1000 word limit? Could you please clarify? Thanks.
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
@CBK
In order to ensure the critique process moves smoothly when we start a contest we intermingle the normal submissions and the contest submissions when assigning reviews. Some of the items you will be asked to critique are part of the contest and some are not. We think this is a good way to ensure early entrants into the competition have works to critique. But we are trying to find additional ways to help people critique works of similar length.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:13 am
I read on a writing contest page announcing this contest that the story content must incorporate a bull fighter but I do not see this indicated on the contest blog. Could you please clarify? Thank you!
May 13th, 2009 at 7:28 am
@A.L.
We though about having a theme for this contest but decided not to. I am surprised to hear the contest postings have a theme. It it probably to late but I am going to try to get them changed. Thank you for letting us know about this inconsistency.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Thank you! I found it on this website…http://www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests/contests.htm.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I found this very helpful. I hope and pray that I will win this contest. I really need this.
~ Buffy
June 12th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Have you published the winning story yet? Can you please announce who the winner is. Thank you.
June 12th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
The winner was published on our blog at http://www.reviewfuse.com/blog/2009/06/may-2009-flash-fiction-writing-contest-winner/