Zeroflash Submissions Page
For those of you that would care to submit, we’re looking for stories of anywhere up to 300 words.
We’d love a beginning, are partial to a middle and if you could see your way clear to adding an ending, we’d be ever so grateful.
Other than that, any genre, any style, any tone, any language. Fill it with character and description and make us think and cry and laugh and gag and stuff.
Just the one submission each per month, please.
Here’s a link to the current competition prompt post.
Please send your stories to: zerofiction000@gmail.com
Deadline is Midnight GMT on the final day of the month.
Please allow Zero Flash the first opportunity to publish your work. Once the competition is over, feel free to publish anywhere else you like.
Do your best to format as Times New Roman and 12 points please.
If you are submitting a Stand Alone entry – separate to the monthly competition, please say so in your email. Likewise, if you are submitting for the monthly competition, let us know.
Every month we will decide on the best story and make a showing of it for the world to see. We’ll tell everyone that it’s great and they should admire and praise it…and then we’ll start all over again.
If you do decide to grace us with your prose, there’s a good chance that at some point (probably a year down the line) we might use it in a ‘best of’ collection. So, be warned, by sending us your stuff, it will/might be published in an outmoded form called paper and as such, you accept this. Should this happen you will be offered the opportunity to buy the book at ‘cost’ + delivery.
Please feel free to add comments and thoughts. We’d welcome your input.
Nice! I will whip one up and get it to you in a #Flash 😀 Well, maybe just a bit longer than a flash, but I couldn’t resist!
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How long does it take you to decide on a submission?
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If it’s for the competition, it’s added straight away. If it’s a stand alone entry, separate to the main comp, I read, and decide – a few days at the most.
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And it is only for fiction?
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Correct. Fiction only.
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I wrote a story for the Cthulhu image you had up a few weeks ago for the October contest. Is 300 words the absolute max? mine is 323 and I’d hate to cut it, but will if I must.
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We aim for 300 but I do say give or take. I’ll accept 323 on this occasion. best of luck.
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I cut it to 299. If you’d like I’ll send the 323 version as well and let you decide.
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I just edited it to 299. If you’d like I can send the 323 version and let you choose.
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When and how will you be announcing the winners of the October submissions?
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asap. likely the 2nd november
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How have I not discovered here before? Taking a longer look tomorrow, I always find the best places when I should be asleep.
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Then don’t bother sleeping.
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Just out of curiosity, if someone wins a competition, can they use the illustration prize on, let’s say, as a cover for a self-published ebook (likely to be an exceptionally expanded version and obviously with the illustrator credited on the copyright page)
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I will address this with the illustrator. Good point. Likely yes. I’ll answer this comment more shortly. thanks for asking.
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