Flash Face Off: the free weekly writing challenge
Flash Face Off Prompts – Bath vs Shower
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Flash Face Off Prompts – Anguish vs Relief
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Flash Face Off Prompts – Liquid vs Solid
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Toots and highlights
Toot Your Flute May: The Dancing and Skipping Edition
Who won at writing in June? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Toot Your Flute April: The No Fooling Edition
Who won at writing in April? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
March Toot Your Flute: The Fluttering and Dancing in the Breeze Edition
Who won at writing in March? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Our top five fave comps and subs for the month
5 Competitions and Submissions! June
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for May 2025.
5 Competitions and Submissions! May
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for May 2025.
5 Competitions and Submissions! March
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for March 2025.
Essays and blogs and pep and interesting writing-based things
Six Short Stories About Queer Lives
A bunch of wonderful short stories by gay, lesbian and trans/non-binary writers.
Where do story ideas come from? Plus a FREE writing exercise
Where do story ideas come from? And how do you grab hold of those raw ideas and turn them into something more… story-ish?
Why Your Writing Matters in 2025
C’mon, Team. We’ve got to keep going even through everything is insufferable bullshit. Pep pep pep.
Interview: Kaia Allen-Bevan
Writing is not always as simple as sitting down with a paper and pen. Writer Kaia Allen-Bevan tells us about escaping racial stereotypes in the
Interview: Kathryn Vercillo
Writing is not always as simple as sitting down with a paper and pen. Writer Kathryn Vercillo talks to us about managing a creative life
Interview: Abigail Mann
Writing is not always as simple as sitting down with a paper and pen. Novelist Abigail Mann tells us about the challenges of writing around
Weirding the Edgelands
A toolkit for writers who want to explore the interstitial, the liminal and the strange.
Eight Stories to Inspire Writing as Resistance
Funny, scary, exciting, heartfelt, satirical, fantastical, challenging and gripping stories grappling with climate justice.
How to write flash fiction about climate change
Top tips for climate change stories with impact
7 Short Stories About Summer
Eight of our favourite Flash Face Off stories. Whittled down from 9,000!
5 Competitions and Submissions! August – September
Overwhelmed by places to send your work? We’ve filtered through e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g for you and to bring you our top five competitions and submissions for August
8 of the Best Flash Face Off Stories of 2024 (so far)
Eight of our favourite Flash Face Off stories. Whittled down from 9,000!
