The Flash Fiction Challenge — nycmidnight The Flash Fiction Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, location, and object assignments in 48 hours.

Join me in the @nycmidnight Flash Fiction Challenge on May 30th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/ffc

The first (optional) #writingprompt of StoryADay went live this morning. It's a Word-Mining Freewrite with Kim Coleman Foote. What will YOU do with this prompt? (Or will you simply use the energy of the challenge to write your own story?) storyaday.org/2025-day-01

Can you write a story in 100 words? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 100-word Microfiction Challenge on March 21st! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/100