The TSS International Flash Fiction Competitions, 2019

The TSS Flash 400 competition is now CLOSED as TSS moves on to new things. We’ve appointed a Senior Editor, Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, and will be accepting general submission for flash. We’ll also still be having a Flash competition, although this will become part of the Cambridge Prize – details will follow soon.

Status: CLOSED

Next Deadline: 31st March 2019 (midnight, U.K. time)

Wordcount: 400

Entry Fee: £5

Following a conversation with Kit de Waal (interview with TSS here), we are happy to announce that submission fees for the Flash Fiction 400 competition will be waived for any writers from marginalised and disadvantaged communities, or anyone suffering from economic hardship. For further details please click here.

Judges: Elisabeth Ingram Wallace and Rupert Dastur

Results: longlist announced mid-April. Winners and Highly Commended in late April / early May.

Prizes: Online and Print Publication plus 1st £400, 2nd £100, 3rd £50

Highly Commended: Up to five further flash fictions will be highly commended and published online. They will also receive £25 each.

PLUS:

All 1st place winners will be nominated for the Best Small Fiction Awards.

All winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) will be published in a chapboook within 12 months of the spring competition.

All winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) will be interviewed, by TSS Publishing, about their flash fiction and their writing more generally.

Enter

Please read through the Terms and Conditions before submitting.IMPORTANT: Due to the volume of submissions, we do not have the capability to email entrants individually regarding results. Please sign up to our newsletter (right sidebar) to keep up to date with competition news, or check the website directly.

Terms and Conditions Flash Fictions must be in English and between 50 and 1000 words in length, including title. (We really want you to think about those titles!) Entries should be 12 pt, a regular font, and at least 1.5 spaced. Please put the title and word count on the first page. Please number the pages. No author identification should be included on the entry. Work is judged anonymously. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. Entries must not have been previously published online or in print. Please submit as a DOC or DOCX. No PDFs please. Please only submit one Flash Fiction per open period.

IMPORTANT: Please remove punctuation from file names (especially apostrophes) as this causes the submission to glitch. Other than the above request, please ensure the file name matches the title of your work. Please don't add words like 'final ' or 'TSS' to the file name as this means more admin time is taken up.

Some older versions of Word struggle to upload correctly. If you have any difficulties submitting your work, please email rupert@theshortstory.co.uk I agree to the Terms and Conditions * Yes Name: * First Last E-mail: * Title of Flash Fiction: * Word Count * Upload a File: * Submit Reset

Sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date with news of competitions, results, and more.