WestWord Flash Prize Shortlist
Plus the Monthly Micro prompt is live!
Well done again to everyone who made the longlist for the WestWord Flash Prize with their dream-inspired story for this year’s flash prize.
Congratulations to the writers who have made the shortlist. Your stories are now with our judge to choose the winners! The winning and shortlisted stories will be published in the anthology edition in September.
Good luck for the final round everyone. We have some amazing titles on this list!
Shortlist
At Night I Dream of Van Gogh Skies
Coffee with Harry Styles
Every Thirty Seconds
Infinity Pool
Marie Antoinette Comes To Marilyn Monroe In A Dream
The Function of Dream Sleep
The Picture of Dori Gray
Windshield Wipers
Monthly Micro — September 2024
Opens: 02nd September
Deadline: 23.59 UK time 08th September 2024
Longlist published: 12th September 2024
Shortlist published and voting begins: 16th September 2024
Voting closes: 23rd September 2024
Winners announced: 24th September 2024
Word count: Up to 150
Prompt:
Remember the prompt is just a jumping-off point for your imagination. The story is entirely up to you, just be sure to read the rules below. Where will this prompt take you?
Looking forward to reading this month’s submissions. Go write!
Open Submissions
The new Unpublished Writer Edition still hasn’t got very many submissions at all so we are cancelling this and will return the submission fee to the handful of writers who have sent a story.
The deadline for sending stories for the December themed edition is this month - 30th September. Send your micros, flashes and short stories on the theme of IDENTITY.
And submissions are open ongoing for our new feature spots: the weekly Story Sunday for stories up to 1000 words; the monthly Short Story Spotlight for stories up to 5,000 words with author interview; and Flash Focus for stories up to 750 words that will publish twice a month and include an author interview too.
Send us your light-filled stories!
This is the final category in the 2024 WestWord Prize. The competition has been revamped for 2025. Get all the info on that here.
Deadline: 30th November 2024
Max word count: 2500
Entry fee: £12 submission only / £40 with feedback
Online anthology publication: January 2025
Theme: Light
PRIZES:
1st: £250
2nd: £150
3rd: £75
Shortlisted: £20
Judge: Nod Ghosh
Nod Ghosh is the author of The Two-Tailed Snake, which publishing with Fairlight Books in September 2023. Nod was born in Birmingham, UK, and currently lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she works as a medical laboratory scientist specialising in the diagnosis of cancers. Her short stories and flash fiction have been widely published in journals and anthologies, and her work has been listed for awards including the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award and the New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day competition. She has had four previous novellas published: The Crazed Wind (2018), Filthy Sucre (2020), Toy Train (2021) and Throw a Seven (2023).
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