June's stories are now loaded onto the site, and the judging process is underway.  Don;t forget to vote to show your own preferences - the feedback is useful to us and to the featured writers!

 
 

Thanks to those who've already entered June's competition!  As for the rest of you out there in flash fiction land, get to it!

There's a new section on flash fiction that's been added too.  Think of this as some introductory material on what flash fiction is, and  some basics on how to write it.   We'll develop this over time, but there's a few tips for starters.

 
Flaming June 05/31/2008
 

So May's material is up and posted.  Go and have a read!  Sites like this depend on material from you, the writing public.  So put fingers to keyboard for June!

 
 

Be honest. 

 
Go, Mary! 05/22/2008
 

And 'hi' to regular contributor Mary Marland, who emailed in to say she'd won the April short story completion over at http://www.globalshortstories.net (and with it the £100 prize).  Well done!

 
 

Phew.  First of May's GAMES-related flash fiction submissions are rolling in.  So thanks to the few of you who've sent something in.  And to the rest of you that haven't - why the flip not?

 
Site rethink... 04/17/2008
 

We've been scratching our heads a little over at Brevity HQ, and we're going to roll out a revised site (pretty much the same clunky design) with a re-focus exclusively onto flash fiction.  The competitions will stay free-to-enter and we like the polling / comments feature, so they're staying.  Also, we're going to up the tempo a bit.  Monthly deadlines are simply too infrequent to encourage both returning readers and lots of fresh fiction.   So that's going to be addressed too.  There'll be a kinda grand re-unveiling at the end of the month, and we'll keep the current HOPE call for submissions as-is.    

 
 

And the polling feature's been added...

 
Writers' News 04/03/2008
 

And a quick 'thanks very much' to Writers News  (the subscriber-only supplement from the good folks at Writing Magazine) who've given us a mention in this month's issue!

 
 

Another month, and another fresh writing competition is detailed over at the competitions page.   March's flash fiction will be uploaded by the weekend, and with it the previously-mentioned voting system.  We spoil you, we really do...