Holiday Flash

Here is a contest you might want to consider sending flash work inspired by the holidays.

Friday Flash Fiction is about to launch this year's Christmas Competition – usual prize, $50 in the winner's local currency. As ever it'll be sponsored by Comely Bank Publishing.

You'll be invited to take part in two ways:

You'll be invited to submit one (or more) stories to the competition; AND

You'll be invited to vote for the story you think is best.

First of all we'll be inviting anyone to write a flash fiction story of 100 words or fewer. The story has to be in the English language but that's about the only limitation. This year is theme-free – the door is wide open for you.

Every 100-word story posted in from the 1st December until entries close on TUESDAY 18th December will be eligible to win. Entry is COMPLETELY FREE.

In accordance with tradition, last year's winner, Lyn Miller and I will select around half a dozen contenders. Our choice will be purely subjective, but we hope you'll like the ones we pick. We'll be looking for a combination of originality and plain good writing.

Once we've chosen that short list, we'll get back to you – probably just before Christmas – and what will happen is that we'll invite each of you to vote for the winner from our short list.

We'll get back to you towards the end of the month to remind you again. The competition is a public one, but we hope lots of you will enter.

Friday Flash Fiction is a 100-word challenge site that publishes selected work online every Friday. For more information go to http://www.fridayflashfiction.com/

Good luck!