The Fish Flash Fiction Prize (Short Short Story Contest) 2016

Description
This is an opportunity to attempt what is one of the most difficult and rewarding tasks - to create, in a tiny fragment, a completely resolved and compelling story in 300 words or less.

Nuala O'Connor (novelist, short and flash fiction writer plus poet) is the judge for 2016. She will be selecting the 10 flash stories to be published in the Fish Anthology 2016.

The Flash Fiction Stories are wonderfully entertaining to read and challenging to write, but we love it and so do the readers of our Anthology. This is a chance to get a story, however small, into the next Fish Anthology.

The Fish Flash Fiction Prize has been an annual event since 2004.

To view our catalogue of anthologies containing the winning stories from previous flash fiction competitions and to read extracts, click Fish Books.

If you would like to refine your flash fiction writing skills, you might like to take advantage of the Flash Fiction Writing Course.

Critique Service is for writers who require an appraisal of their work prior to entering a writing contest, or at any time.

Ten stories will be published in the 2015 Fish Anthology.

First - €1,000

Second - online writing course with Fish

The ten published authors will each receive five copies of the Anthology and will be invited to read at the launch during the West Cork Literary Festival in July.

• No entry form is needed. Entry is online or by post if required.

• You can enter as many times as you wish.

• The flash fiction contest is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.

• There is no restriction on theme or style.

• Maximum number of words is 300.

• The winning stories must be available for the anthology, and therefore must not have been published previously.

• Fish holds publishing rights for one year after publication, after which publishing rights revert to the author.

• Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by email.

• The judges' verdict is final. No correspondence will be entered into.

• Stories cannot be altered or substituted once they have been entered.

• Judging is anonymous. Name and contact details must not appear on the stories, (in the box provided if entering online, on separate sheet if entering by post).

• In order to give opportunities to emerging writers:
  (a) Writers who have had two short stories published in Fish Anthologies may not enter for three years after their second publication. They may enter other Fish competitions.
  (b) Previous first prize winners may enter again, but will not be eligible for the first prize.

• Entry is taken to be acceptance of these rules.