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Wildfire Words Third International Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Contest

Closing date: Thurs 13th Mar 2025

Submissions are now open for the Wildfire Words Third International Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Contest.

All entries must be entirely the writer’s own, unpublished work. Any previous print or online publication, including self-publication, disqualifies a work from the competition.

There will be two cash prizes of £150, one for best text, one for best audio, as well as four runner-up prizes of £15.

The prizewinners and twenty longlisted entries will be published online in Wildfire Words as text and audio in the Flash Fiction 150 Anthology 2025.

Judges: Abigail Ottley, Katherine Parsons, Marilyn Timms

Find out more about Wildfire Words Third International Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Contest
Entry fee: £3 per poem | £7 for 3 poems | from 1 March 2025: £4 per poems | £10 for 3 poems
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