The Writers' HQ FIVE DAYS OF FLASH CHALLENGE
SHORT STORIES FOR THE SHORTEST MONTH
Starts Monday 7 February 2022
This flash-flinging five-day writing challenge will give you the inspiration, prompts and tools to write five fantastic pieces of short fiction and hone your flashy skills.
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PUT ON YOUR SHORT SHORTS, FOLKS, IT'S TIME TO GET FLASHY
FIVE DAYS OF flash. five new stories under your belt.
February may be the shortest month but sometimes the best things come in tiny packages.
Flash fiction is an art unto itself – and we wanna show you how to write it.
Join us for a whistlestop five-day writing challenge in which we teach you the fundamental secrets of flash fiction, help you to forge your very own flashy voice, and shower you with irresistible writing prompts to let you write your pants off.
You’ll walk away with five brand new story drafts, a whole heap of techniques and approaches to flash fiction, and the confidence to build your short story skills to craft perfect little literary masterpieces.
Join The Writers' HQ Five Days of Flash Challenge - Starting Monday 7 February 2022
A TASTY PACKAGE OF WRITERLY EXCELLENCE
- It's FREE!
- Daily pepping emails to explode you into action
- A five day flash fiction course on our writey-learny-doing-things platform
- Access to our super supportive global writing community
- A serious kick up the writerly beehive


The Writers’ HQ Five Days of Flash Challenge is a FREE five-day prompt-filled, inspirational online course to help kickstart your flash fiction into the stratosphere. Learn new techniques, hone your short story chops, and get feedback and support from Team WHQ.

Because you wanna discover how to write snappy, impactful flash fiction that makes people say, “Holy em-dashes, I wish I’d written that!” And you deserve to give your writing some dedicated time and attention to make that happen.

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Yes it’s free. FREEEE! But we’re obvi going to try to get you to join as a member at some point because we can’t get enough of helping writers do that writing thang. But you can ignore that stuff. We don’t care. We don’t. It’s fine.

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The Writers' HQ Five Days of Flash Challenge is FREEEEEEEEE!
If you’re ready to take the next step in your writing, just whack your things in the thing and we’ll send you the thing
- A five-day flash fiction writing challenge
- Prompts, exercises and flashy inspiration
- Access to our super supportive community
- A serious kick up the writerly beehive
- Love and hugs