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Flash Fiction goes by several names including: Micro Fiction, Sudden Fiction, Fast Fiction and Short-short stories. It is a short form of storytelling, in which a writer must build a complete story in less than 1000-2000 words. However this criteria may vary from writer to writer or editor to editor. Some writers believe that a complete story told in 75 words or less is true flash fiction.
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Flash fiction: short stories of around 1,000 words or less. (Although, many of these stories are closer to 1,500 words.) I write flash fiction stories in various genres and combinations of genres, such as suspense, crime, humor, horror, fantasy, and adventure. Also, check out my longer short stories.
Tara L. Masih is the founding editor of the new annual series The Best Small Fictions, which honors the best flash fiction under 1,000 words from journals and presses around the world. She notes that what is deemed as “good flash” changes based on historical and cultural context. “If you asked someone of the O. Henry period what a good flash was, they would have insisted on twist endings.
We are proud to welcome entries into the 2020 International Flash Fiction Prize. Entrants are invited to submit up to 500 words of flash fiction of any genre. Entrants submitting wherein the feedback supplement is paid for will receive a performance report written in regards to their submission.
These are awards for stories over 1,000 words in length, up to around the 20,000 word mark. However, the vast majority of the competitions are for stories between 1,000 and 5,000 words in length. Writing Magazines and Journals. These are publications open to general submissions of articles, flash fiction, poetry, short stories and more. Some.