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F – Call for Submissions to National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. Theme: Air, Earth, Water and Fire
The theme of the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day anthology is THE CLASSICAL ELEMENTS: AIR, EARTH, WATER AND FIRE.
You can use any combination of the elements, just one or all four, which should give you plenty of space to play around with ideas. Will you take us flying in the air, bring us down to earth, set us alight with your words or plunge us into the watery depths? We can’t wait to find out.
Feel free to interpret the theme however you wish, in 500 words or fewer. Selected flashes will be published in National Flash Fiction Day’s 13th Annual Anthology. Payment is one contributor’s copy of the anthology.
Please submit up to three unpublished flashes of 500 words or fewer before our deadline. Titles are not included in the word count. There is no minimum word count and much shorter pieces are very welcome. We prefer you include all pieces in one document where possible, though multiple submissions are fine if you are submitting on different occasions.
This year’s theme is THE CLASSICAL ELEMENTS – AIR, EARTH, WATER AND FIRE. The story does not need to include thematic words or phrases, but it must touch on the theme in some way.
Submissions are open internationally. Although we anonymise submissions, we actively encourage submissions by writers from underrepresented groups, such as BAME, LGBTQ+, low income and disabled writers.
Entries will be read and judged anonymously. To avoid disqualification, please do not put your name, address, email, telephone number or any personally identifying information on your document or in the file name.
In addition, all selected pieces will be considered for one of two Editor’s Choice Awards. The 2024 editors will each select one piece from the accepted stories to receive a £50 prize.