May, 2025

Event Details
BeaconFlash is a 500-word short story competition, offering extended critique and online publication to winners. There are eight prizes this year, totalling at least £630. Profit goes to the Beacon
Event Details
BeaconFlash is a 500-word short story competition, offering extended critique and online publication to winners. There are eight prizes this year, totalling at least £630. Profit goes to the Beacon Villages Community Library.
The 2024/25 competition will be judged by author, freelance editor and writing tutor Morgen Bailey.
The competition is open for entries from August 2024 to May 2025. A total of eight prizes will be awarded, including eight free passes to the following year’s BeaconLit Festival (worth £35 in 2024). First prize is £75 plus up to 5,000 words critique* from the competition’s judge Morgen Bailey (worth £100) and free entry to the following year’s BeaconLit festival in July 2025 with publication on the BeaconLit website.