I
You Don’t Have to Say It
by L. Soviero
II
The Fishmonger
by Lauren Kardos
III
Drink of This Wine
by AD Schweiss
IV
Desert Truffle
by Donna L. Greenwood
V
Good Dirt II
by Andrea DeAngelis
VI
Cabbage Patch
by Michael Carter
VII
Heard
by Daniel Scamell
VIII
Ricotta
by Salvatore Difalco
IX
My Love for You, as Consumed
by Fannie Gray
X
Four Days Without
by JP Relph
Flash Feast is closed.
Check back on July 27th
at 9am PDT for results!
It’s not too late…
Procrastinator Special keeps late entries open
until 11:59pm (Pacific) on Monday, June 20th.
“All our words are but crumbs
that fall down from the feast of the mind.”
–
Submit to Flash Feast
On the surface, this may seem like one of our most straightforward prompts: more or less, we want stories that involve food. Then again, it also just might be our most wide-open. After all, everything needs to consume to survive, so your options are quite literally endless. The act of eating runs the gamut from formal to primal; it can involve a satisfying a sophisticated palate or greedily sating our basest impulses. Procuring food can be an active hunt or the passive act of being fed. Humans have built rituals and customs around food preparation and consumption. It drives global industries. Wars have been fought over food. There’s even the potential that we become food ourselves. And there’s room in this contest for the consumption of things not normally considered food.
We’re also not only looking for stories about food, here, but rather the act of devouring, and that can get as biological, metaphysical, or paranormal as you’d like. If you’ve entered one of our contests before, or simply read what we publish, you know we’re hoping you get real weird with it. With that said, we’re not going to publish 10 cannibal stories, and biting into one poison dish is usually enough, so get unique with your Flash Feast entry if you want a seat at the table.
We like literary approaches, but we also dig genre and pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual fairytale and folk horror tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen before.
The top three entries will win cash money (USD).
$300 for Flash Feast winner
$200 for 2nd place
$100 for 3rd place
We also give mad respect to 4th-10th place,
publishing them in our Flash Feast mega-issue
and in a future print anthology.
(Grab a copy of Vol. 6 HERE.)
Submit to Flash Feast
Follow these guidelines, and you could come away with cash, online/print publication, and sweet, sweet glory.
– All submissions must absolutely be under 1,000 words, and we tend to look more kindly on 750 or fewer because… DELICIOUS SQUIRREL!
– All names are concealed on contest submissions during judging, so we won’t be playing favorites.
– Please paste your entry into the corresponding field. Do not list your name anywhere or we’ll assume you don’t know how to read.
– Entry fee is $8 $10 during Procrastinator Special. (Sorry, no refunds.)
– We reserve the right to extend deadlines if necessary (and you can expect our usual week-ish Procrastinator’s Special with corresponding increase in entry fee for you slackers).
– Submissions must be previously unpublished work, and you will retain copyright. By entering this contest, you give us permission to publish your work (if selected for our Top 10) both online and in a future print anthology.
– No limit on how many entries you can submit, but you must submit them one at a time. Don’t just mash them all in there.
– Contest soft deadline is end of day (PDT) Monday, June 13th, 2022. final deadline is end of day (Pacific) on Monday, June 20th, 2022. Winners announced on June 27th and we’ll unleash the Flash Feast mega-issue shortly thereafter.
– And, most importantly, this is a FLASH FEAST contest, so your entry must include food or something being consumed or devoured. But again, this can be in any form imaginable.
So that means you can do something like this…
or this…
or this…
or this…
or even this…
Dig in.
Submit to Flash Feast
The Molotov Cocktail 