
Flash Dash
Winner
Chris Cottom: How to Make a Dad Quilt
Runners-up:
Katie Holloway: The Apple Stalk Game
Alison Wassell: There Is No R In Bath
Win £50 or 6 months' free admission to our monthly writing workshops.
Now closed.
Welcome to Flash Dash
We love reading your writing and decided that being open for submissions a few times a year wasn't enough - so we created Flash Dash - a flash fiction competition with a difference. It doesn't have a regular slot in our publishing calendar but will magically pop up every now again, but you'd better be quick submissions are only open for 4 weeks.
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Submissions open (now closed)
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Enter Flash Dash to win:
First prize: £50 and publication in The Phare
Runner-up: publication in The Phare and six months' free entry to our monthly writing workshops
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Entry fee £4.00 via PayPal link at the bottom of the page.
Winners will be announced on social media and on our website on 19th August 2023.
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Submission Guidelines
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Please send in your submission before 7 August 2023. Submissions received after this date will not be read.
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Before submitting, please read an issue of The Phare so you're aware of the type of work we publish.
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Please pay entry fee of £4.00 via PayPal link below. Then email your entry to phareflashdash@gmail.com
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Send one piece of flash fiction up to 500 words. Use a sensible font, 12 point. Double-spaced.​ Please do not indent new paras or dialogue - just add appropriate line breaks. Send as a word document and not a pdf attachment.
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In the subject box, type Flash Dash plus the title of the piece.
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In the body of the email please include a third person author’s bio of no more than 75 words with any social media or personal website links
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On each piece please type your name and email address.​​
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Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us if your story has been accepted elsewhere.
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Unpublished pieces only please.
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We may suggest a few minor edits before publication.
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There are a few things that will turn the The Phare's lights out; overtly transgressive, gratuitous violence and/or sex, religious intolerance, anything homophobic or racist. And sorry, we’re not the right place for YA or children’s literature.
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By submitting your written work to The Phare Literary Magazine you are granting us non-exclusive rights to publish in our online journal at www.thephare.com and in any The Phare print journal or anthology. We will also be granted non-exclusive archival rights to display the written work for as long as The Phare exists. Copyright remains with the author.​
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