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The Foreword Festival is running another Fast Foreword Flash Fiction Competition for 2025. If you live in East Anglia, you are invited to enter!
We’re looking for stories of 400 to 500 words – prose, not poetry. Quick, punchy narratives that you can sit and read in the time it takes you to enjoy a cuppa. Stories can be on any theme, in any genre. Just remember that this is a fringe literature festival, so weird and wonderful is encouraged, and more likely to be selected!
A panel of judges will select up to ten stories to be read aloud to the public by professional actors in various locations around Stowmarket during the festival, some or all of which we hope to publish in a Fast Foreword anthology in the future and/or publish on our website. We may also choose stories that are not performed to include in the anthology or website.
We want to see your creativity, and to show off your work in a variety of forms as part of our 2025 Foreword Festival. Bear in mind that we may choose not to perform anything with a 15+ rating, as there are likely to be children present at the Fast Foreword venues.
To enter, please read our terms and conditions first, then go to our online submission form and upload your creation!
Closing date for entries is 11.59pm (GMT) on May 31st 2025.
We’re looking forward to reading your stories! Here’s a sample story to inspire your creativity.
Check out the Fast Foreword performances from our 2023 competition!
