Flash Fiction Month: FAQ

What is Flash Fiction?

Flash Fiction is simply very short prose pieces, generally defined as being 1000 words or less. The word limits for Flash Fiction Month are 55 words minimum, to 1000 words maximum.


What is Flash Fiction Month all about?

Flash Fiction Month is an annual community writing event, run in July, in which participants write one piece of flash fiction every day for a month.


How do I join?

Anyone can do Flash Fiction Month, anywhere, but ~Flash-Fic-Month is the "official" site for it on deviantART. You don't have to "join" as such, but if you'd like your work read and featured, it's a good idea to let us know you're participating here, on the Sign-Up Page, and to put the account on watch for the daily prompts and link-deviations.


How do the link-deviations work?

Each day, ~Flash-Fic-Month will submit a new deviation, containing the following day's prompts. This is also the place to which you should LINK your daily work, in the COMMENTS, if you want it read and featured.

* Please try to keep 'chatter' down in comments, to make it easier for staff to find your daily link. If you'd like to comment on something, please do so on the page of the work itself.



Hints and Tips For Writing Flash Fiction

Tips for Writing Flash Fiction by Steve Smith ( `SRSmith )

Flashes of Brilliance by S. Joan Popek

Writing Flash Fiction by G. W. Thomas

Articles by Bruce Holland Rogers

8 Tips for Writing Flash Fiction by Dawn Arkin


Coming Soon: Our list of flash fiction publications!