IT is the last week for entries for a series of competitions. Worcestershire Literary Festival and Fringe CIC run three annual writing competitions.

IT is the last week for entries for a series of competitions. Worcestershire Literary Festival and Fringe CIC run three ...

Competition deadline: 21st May 2026 The inaugural Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction will be judged by Nuala O’Connor. The Pushbike Prize Terms and Conditions Eligibility Open to writers aged ...

Updates Include Multilingual Cover Display, Added Support for Italics and Formatting Aligned With International Publishing Conventions - to Celebrate, a Global Writing Challenge for Creators Worldwide ...

Our talented readers again crammed fantastic stories into 99 words or fewer for the Journal’s annual Flash Fiction Contest. Retired children’s librarian JoAnn Bauer, NCJ Managing Editor Jennifer ...

Not a lot of wiggle room in a 99-word story. This year’s crop of flash fiction contest entries kept it short, but not always sweet or simple. Chosen once again by yours truly, poet and novelist David ...

This is the first story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. To please his mother, a writer attempts a children’s ...

With domestic markets nearing saturation and facing stricter regulations, China’s billion-dollar ultrashort drama industry is looking to expand abroad. Amid this shift, studios are rushing to ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...