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Don’t forget, there was a little event called the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, so it’s not all chocolates and roses.” Before we get to the submission guidelines, please know that only the top 15 to 20 stories will be posted on our Patreon page for our patrons to vote on. Genre: flash fiction of up to 360 words. Prize: Up to £100. Deadline: February 7, 2025. Furious Fiction. Genre: Flash fiction. “On the first Friday of every month, a new set of story prompts will be revealed. You will have 55 hours to submit your best 500-word (or fewer) story.” Prize: $500AUD. Deadline: February 9, 2025. 2025 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 8. Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by Managing Editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write to from an animal’s perspective. 2025 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 8. Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by Managing Editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write to from an animal’s perspective. Deadline: Accepts invited submissions all January Limit: Up to 25 pages (double-spaced) or about 6,000 words Entry fee: $20. American Short(er) Fiction Contest. Focused on flash and short stories, this is just one of the various contests hosted by American Short Fiction. In my opinion, this is a great literary magazine, so its contests are very Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Story, Thriller, and Young Adult The competition invites submissions from writers of all genres and styles, allowing stories up to 8,000 words. The winner will be announced on February 10, 2025, and all stories are judged anonymously. Send your submission to info@writersnl.ca using the subject line “WritersNL’s Valentine’s Day Submission 2025.” Deadline for submissions is Monday, February 3 at 11:59 p.m. NST. The E-Zine and audiobook is set to be released on February 14, 2025 for the holiday of love! 2025 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 6. Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by Managing Editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write a eulogy for an idea or inanimate object. THE NEXT OPEN SUBMISSION PERIOD WILL BE FROM FEBRUARY 1ST-7TH, 2025 **During 2025, we will be open for submissions the first week (first seven days) of the following months: February, April, June, August, and October.*** To Submit to Lost Balloon when we reopen: We handle submissions through Submittable. Please do not email us submissions. We accept fiction stories between 300–1000 words. No previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Let our editors know if your story is accepted elsewhere. We accept submissions from all over the world, but they must be written in English. We do not accept poetry. We do not accept children’s fiction. We do not accept You won’t let it spoil your mood. You make your way down the street, bathed in Brooklyn’s fading light, and you decide that you need to have wine as well. It’s an extravagance, given what you just spent on flowers. But it’s Valentine’s Day, and you have a Valentine, and you suddenly know that you must have rich, dark red wine. Not all love is fresh some of it festers. Marrow is excited to announce Rotten: a literary contest seeking your darkest, fabulist tales of love gone off. We want stories, poems, nonfiction, and visual art that explore the decay, monstrosity, and unpalatable truths beneath romance. You may send work once per reading period—one submission in fall and one in spring—once during our Valentine’s Day window, and once during any other special reading window, if you have something that fits the relevant call for work. Additional submissions, regardless of genre, will be deleted or recycled unread. Valentine’s Day 2025 We are now CLOSED to poetry and story submissions for our Bloody Valentine’s Day issue, which will be our next full issue. Thanks to all for visiting, submitting to, and supporting Tales from the Moonlit Path! Publication Date: 10/28/24 We love supporting and promoting speculative fiction and horror in the small press! Valentine's Day, by Amy Kokes. 1/11/2024 Friday Flash Fiction Rules. Kinda obvious, really Fiction only; Stories of 90-100 words only; Don't be nasty or cheat; Submissions are now open to enter our Valentines Week 2025 contest. The top five love stories will be posted on CommuterLit the week of Feb. 10-14 and receive cash prizes: First-place: CA$100S Since Friday Flash Fiction began in September 2013, 100-word stories have remained its 'beating heart'. Normally, 100-word stories are scheduled for 07.00 BST (GMT in the winter) on the following Friday. However, where a larger number of stories (more than 25) are due to be published on the same day, we publish the later ones EARLIER around 4. : : ANGELIC WHISPERS ROMANCE ANTHOLOGIES "2023 VALENTINES DAY FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY :: Angelic Whispers Romance Anthologies is hosting a "2023 Valentines Day Flash Fiction Anthology" which will be Writing GuidelinesEvery Day Fiction is looking for very short (flash) fiction, of up to 1000 words. There’s no such thing as too short — if you can do the job in 50 words, have at it! — but our readers prefer pieces that tell or at least hint at a complete story (some sort of action or tension rising to a moment of climax, and at least a clue toward a resolution, though it doesn’t have Length is 500-1,000, occasionally 2,000-5,000 words of fiction or true adventure (serialized). They pay $25 for short poetry, $150 for longer articles. 5). Motherwell —”We'd love to invite submissions about what the holidays (e.g. Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Thanksgiving) mean to you and your family. Or anything regarding how they make
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