Flash Fiction Writing

Master winning flash fiction. Craft 500-word stories that linger with judges through emotion and originality. Discover tips on sparking ideas, honing edits, and—most importantly—standing out. This guide sharpens your writing to competition-winning form.

Supercharge your flash fiction with AI! Unleash creativity, refine your voice, and craft stories that stand out. This guide shows you how to use AI tools for idea generation, story sharpening, and ethical writing. Make AI your ally for sharper, unforgettable tales.

Mastering genre flash fiction means telling a compelling story in 500-1,000 words. Nail the voice, story arc, and twist to captivate readers. Whether it’s historical fiction, romance, fantasy, science fiction or  horror, genre fiction provides infinite scope for an unforgettable twist to a familiar tale, that stay long in your memory.t

Sally Dickson has run the Farnham Flash Fiction competition for over 7 years, and during that time has read and judged over 1,000 competition entries. Sally is also a genre fiction author of the bestselling science fiction series Dodecahedral, written under the pen name Sally Ann Melia. 

"Every year, I have to explain what makes a winning flash fiction competition entry. On reflection, and after a few years of experince, I realised it's not just luck. There is a knack to writing great flash fiction. So I wrote these books to capture some of my insights and expertise and share them with fellow writers."