FLASH FICTION COMPS 2026

February's writing competition was a double-header: Flash Fiction and Poetry.

Taking the theme of "randomness / selective" on from our in-person meeting in the Quakers Hall on 2 February, the competition was to select a line from a song lyric (not the title!). Authors could choose any genre of song but it had to be a line taken from a song lyric. 

We received 9 flash fiction entries, which can be read below.

1st place: ENTRY 2: Sumi Watters - Out of Character

2nd place: ENTRY 1: John Hartley - Extract from a New Sound Melody Interview: 10 Feb 1991

3rd place: ENTRY 6: Joanna Bawa - Choice or No Choice

4th place: ENTRY 7: Mike Lansdown - The Bright Lights