Write your way to a free spot in our upcoming online retreat: Living the Writer’s Life—a live, online, 8-session in-place retreat from January to May 2025.

CONTEST PROMPT

Your mission: Write a 600-word flash-fiction or flash-memoir piece about a time you helped someone or someone helped you. Go wild with it—like maybe a time when a flea helped an elephant or a chair helped a table. Surprise us! Delight us! Make us cry and laugh and catch our breath with an “Oh, wow.”

COST

$25

Think of this contest as the embodiment of the writing prompt above: As the winner of the contest, you will be able to attend the retreat for free, and all contest proceeds go toward helping a writer in need attend the online retreat with you.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• The work must be your own original work.

• No more than 600 words (can be fewer), double spaced.

• No AI-generated content

• Submission period: September 15 - midnight October 31, 2025

• Hit the submit button below to enter, and then email us with your submission in the body of the email (do not attach a file).

• If you can’t afford the submission fee, email us, and we will work something out!