flash fiction competition Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/flash-fiction-competition/ Sat, 25 May 2024 12:20:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 flash fiction competition Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/flash-fiction-competition/ 32 32 184391167 The Road is Long – Flash Fiction WinnerCharlie Sanderson https://writersrebel.com/the-road-is-long-flash-fiction-winner/ Sat, 25 May 2024 12:18:24 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=6009   You can watch Charlie Sanderson reading ‘The Road is Long’, her winning entry to our Flash Fiction Competition 2024, here –     Charlie Sanderson is a voice artist and writer living in the woods with a neurotic labrador and a toddler. She has journalled from childhood and writes poetry and creative nonfiction with the [...]

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The Road is LongCharlie Sanderson https://writersrebel.com/the-road-is-long-2/ Sat, 25 May 2024 12:06:54 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=6000     The winning entry in our flash fiction competition, ‘The Road is Long’, weaves threads of grief, resilience and hope into a haunting piece of poetic prose. The judges unanimously agreed it deserved to win, and we hope you are equally moved and inspired by it. Charlie is a voice artist and writer living [...]

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Coke Bottle – A JourneyDarren Wimhurst https://writersrebel.com/coke-bottle-a-journey/ Thu, 16 May 2024 08:55:01 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5976   This story was shortlisted for the Writers Rebel Flash Fiction Competition.   An empty coke bottle is tossed on a beach in California and takes the Current south toward Mexico. There, it hops the North Equatorial, crossing the Pacific. Near the coast of Japan, it travels north on the powerful Kuroshiro Current. Deflated, it [...]

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A.I.DAPTATIONAlycia Calvert https://writersrebel.com/a-i-daptation/ Thu, 16 May 2024 08:54:01 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5957   This story was shortlisted for the Writers Rebel Flash Fiction Competition.   Alycia Calvert is a neurodivergent emerging author from the desert southwest. Her lush little stories blur the line between poetry and fiction and always have a speculative bent. Alycia Calvert writes: “I’ve been thinking about the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Artificial [...]

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Elegy for a YellowjacketTim Kiely https://writersrebel.com/elegy-for-a-yellowjacket/ Thu, 16 May 2024 08:53:24 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5980   This story was shortlisted for the Writers Rebel Flash Fiction Competition.   The first day after his life ended, Martin Willoughby simply lay full-length on the kitchen floor staring at the ceiling, clutching his bright yellow safety vest. The walls were now a few eighths of an inch thicker with the insulation that had [...]

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InfertilitiesJoseph Nicholson https://writersrebel.com/infertilities/ Thu, 16 May 2024 08:52:39 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5982   This story was shortlisted for the Writers Rebel Flash Fiction Competition.   Daddy said, help me bury it. So I stood, rain plicking off my hood, watching him steam with the spade in the hole. Come on then, he said, and I cast in the dirt I’d clawed up, already a wet clod in [...]

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Nesting GardenAlycia Calvert https://writersrebel.com/nesting-garden/ Thu, 16 May 2024 08:51:44 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5974   This story was shortlisted for the Writers Rebel Flash Fiction Competition.   Jane finds it cooler under the greenhouses hanging tree limbs, as the ground outside browns. Holding hands or alone, others join. Under metal and glass, heavy breathing in the sweaty humidity. Outside, tan grasses crisp. Emptied aquifers become blistering, caving sinkholes. Sheets [...]

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FLASH FICTION COMPETITIONWriting Thrutopia https://writersrebel.com/flash-fiction-competition/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:04:53 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5830   Our mission at Writers Rebel is to motivate writers not only to write about the climate emergency, but to get their work into the world and begin to enrage, engage and inspire readers. Because in order to navigate the crisis and change the business-as-usual narrative of our politicians and mainstream media, we need first [...]

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