Green Stories: New Flash Fiction Competition – Epiphanies! Deadline 27 August 2025; £1,000 worth of prizes!

Green Stories, based locally at the University of Southampton, is running a flash fiction competition for stories under 500 words on the theme of ‘epiphanies’. Deadline 27th August 2025.

The writing competition invites writers to submit a story about transformation, when a moment of epiphany causes one or more characters to change for the greener.

Green Stories say: “The transformative realisation could relate to any attitude or behaviour with environmental implications (e.g. food, travel, consumption, gardening, cleaning, etc.), or the story could focus on the benefits of any greener alternative (e.g. environment, health, status, spirit, soul). We call it fiction, but you can write about any personal epiphanies too, using storytelling techniques to give it drama and emotion.”

There are £1000 (€/$1200) worth of prizes and the deadline is 27th August 2025. More details here. https://www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fiction…/

Info courtesy of Green Stories and Transition Southampton