Flash Fiction
50-Word Stories
Closes in 10 days
- Length
- 50 to 50 words
- Pay
- Unpaid
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Reprints welcome
What they accept
50-Word Stories publishes microfiction of exactly 50 words, not including the title, and posts two reader-submitted stories every weekday. Submissions are open by email from the 1st to the 15th of each month, one story per author per month; there is no payment for stories, although a Story of the Month selection receives a prize of $50 Canadian.
- Resubmissions
- Not allowed
- Query after
- 30 days
- AI policy
- Artificial Intelligence tools should not be used in the creation of 50-word stories.
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