Flash Fiction Competition 2025: “Envelope”

We had some wonderful entries for our recent Poetry Competition and we’re hoping for a similar response for our latest Flash Fiction challenge.

This time the prompt is “Envelope”. The word limit is 300 (not including title) but remember that every word should count – you’re looking to distil the very essence of your story into its purest form while at the same time immersing the reader into the scene. And also remember that 300 words is a limit, not a target. If you can achieve what you want in 219 or 73 words, that’s fine.

You can enter via hard copy or by email with docx/pdf attachments.

Deadline is 16 August with winners announced on 3 September 2025. Full details and rules are on our Competitions Page. Our judge will be the awesome Anne Howkins.

If you want to see some past winners, click here for 2024, 202320222021.


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2 responses to “Flash Fiction Competition 2025: “Envelope””

  1. Simon J. Wood avatar

    Hi, I’m wondering when the winners of the ‘Envelope’ competition will be announced. It says 3rd September above.

    1. fossewaywriters avatar
      fossewaywriters

      Hi Simon. I apologise for the delay, the results were put on this website on 7th September – late, I know – owing to a technical snag. If you would like to read the 5 entries mentioned above, you can go to our new website (https://fossewaywriters.com) where I have been able to create the entries as readable linked files.

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