FLASH ISSUES

Submit a piece about an experience while traveling in 500 words or less. 

(Photograph by Thomas Howlett)

Submit a piece about sacrifice in 500 words or less. 

Submit a piece that describes how a specific food dish has made you the person you are in five hundred words or less.

Write a murder mystery in two hundred words or less.

Frame a mental health story through the lens of a dream or a nightmare. 

Flash Issue 23:

Write a family drama from two or more perspectives. 

Flash Issue 22: 

Write something that either fits the genre of nonsense literature or just feels like nonsense. It can be surrealist, magical realist, or pure nonsense. 

Flash Issue 21:

Write about a place that gives you comfort. 

Flash Issue 20:

Submit pieces (messages, letters, poems, visual art/film) created for someone but never sent.

Flash Issue 19:

Write a paragraph horror story.

Submit a piece from the perspective of a library building.

Submit a piece about two things that always go together.

Write a piece from the perspective of a synesthetic.

Submit a piece from the perspective of a fictional creature

Describe a conversation between the head and the heart.

No winners.

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Write a piece about an object you would put in your own personal time capsule. 

(Digital Art by Carolina Beretta)

Write a piece from the perspective of an unreliable narrator.

(Digital Art by Carolina Beretta)

Write about a place that doesn't exist.

(Image via DeviantArt)

Flash Issue 10:

Write a piece that encapsulates someone's entire life.

(Image from Mauro Settin)

Flash Issue 9:

Use a piece of clothing to tell a story

(Drawing by Jenny Walton)

Flash Issue 8:

Invent a new word and write how you would define it (defining it could mean creating a dictionary definition, telling a story that encapsulates it, writing a poem about it, etc.).

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Flash Issue 7:

Write a poem without any "being" verbs (ex: is, am, was were, are, etc.)

(Photo by Flora Westbrook)

Flash Issue 6:

Read the poem "The Stolen Child" by W.B. Yeats. Write a short story or other response piece from the perspective of the child after it has left the fairies behind

OR 

Write a piece structured around a broken object

(Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger from Pexels)

Flash Issue 5:

Write a poem about a color without using the name or the name of a shade of that color

(Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash)

Flash Issue 4:

Write a short prose piece or poem about a part of the body that involves a joint (the elbows, the knee, the wrist, the ankle, etc.)

Flash Issue 3:

A picture is worth 1,000 words: In 1,000 words or less submit a work inspired by this photo.

(Photo Credit: New York Dream by Maureen Pierce)

Flash Issue 2:

Cassandra is a famous character from Greek mythology, who received the gift of prophecy from the god Apollo but, after incurring his wrath, was cursed so that her prophecies were never believed. Write a piece from Cassandra’s perspective

OR

Write a 6 word story

Flash Issue 1:

Pick a book. Using the first and last lines, create your own story based on the context of just those two lines. 

No winners