Many thanks to everyone who read and voted - we received over 100 votes!
And the winners and our Best of the Net animations are:
Other Mothers by Lisa Roberts
Mrs Metamorphosa’s Emporium by Alison Wassell
Congratulations Lisa and Alison! Best of luck for the next part of the process and thank you again for sending WestWord your brilliant stories.
The winners of the free workshops (as chosen by random number generator) are:
Rachel Harbaugh
Cathy Farnworth
Swetha Amit
Roxanne T
Allison Hall
Email us to claim your workshop ticket! See everything coming up here.
With love,
P. S. Join me this afternoon for a Zoom workshop: Mindful Dialogue: Writing Conversations That Connect explores how mindful listening in your daily life can transform the conversations you create on the page, helping you craft authentic dialogue that reveals character depth and advances your story with genuine human connection in fiction and creative nonfiction. 30th August, 3-4:30pm BST.
Open Submissions
The Past Times Prize closes on Sunday! We want historical flashes (500 words or fewer) from the 1920s.
The November themed edition is accepting submissions until the end of September. Theme: THRESHOLD.
We’re always open for submissions to Flash Focus, Short Story Spotlight and Folktale Flash.