The prompt for our 2024 Flash Fiction competition is Utopia. The word limit is 300 (not including title) but remember that every word should count – you’re looking to distill the very essence of your story into its purest form while at the same time immersing the reader into the scene. And also remember that 300 words is a limit, not a target. If you can achieve what you want in 219 or 73 words, that’s fine.

Deadline is 17 August with winners announced on 4 September 2024. The judge will be the awesome Anne Howkins.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.