The 2024 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize Is Now Open!

The Write Time

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize is now open!

What fabulous flash, what polished prose, what snappy stories do you have for us this year?

Enter for your chance at the $300 top prize …

… and publication in Pulp Literature Issue 45, Winter 2025! How’s that for flashtastic?

Details and how to enter

Closing June 15th, this contest is for previously unpublished short fiction. And remember: tell those terrific tales in under a thousand words.

All entry fees include a 1-year digital subscription to Pulp Literature.

Enter by May 15th and pay the early-bird fee of just $20!

And why not add on a professional critique by one of our editors for only $50 more?

This contest is for previously unpublished short fiction up to 1000 words in length. No simultaneous submissions, please. 

Curious about the winners of Hummingbirds past?

Check out ‘Field’s Nocturne No. 10 in E Major’ by Matt Lumbard, and ‘Separate Worlds’ by Chip Houser, both in Pulp Literature Issue 41, Winter 2024.

For all the details on this year’s Hummingbird Prize, and to enter, visit the contest page!