Shooter Flash spotlights bitesize brilliance with one winning story each month, which we publish online (plus in an annual anthology – see link below).

We welcome fiction and non-fiction stories up to 1,000 words long on a rolling basis, any theme/genre, and the winning story each month wins £50 as well as publication on the second Monday of each month. Winning stories are also compiled in an anthology, which is available to buy via the link below and given free to all who send in their writing to Shooter.

To submit, please read the following guidelines:

1. Send stories 1.5 or double spaced as .doc or .docx files to flash.shooterlitmag@gmail.com.
2. Include identifying information (name and brief third-person biography) in the body of the email rather than on the story itself.
3. The author’s bio should be ready for use as it will be posted at the end of the winning story. Feel free to include any links to author’s website or social media.
4. Stories must be no longer than 1,000 words excluding title.
5. Entry fee of £5 per story or £8 for two (via PayPal links below).
6. Upon submission, writers will receive a copy of the most recent Shooter Flash anthology via email.
7. Stories may be submitted at any time as submissions are open on a rolling basis.
8. Stories can be previously published or unpublished, and writers may submit multiple stories for consideration.
9. Stories submitted during a calendar month will be considered for publication during the next month.
10. The winning story will be posted on Shooter’s website on the second Monday of each month.
11. The winning writer will receive the £50 prize via PayPal following publication online.
12. The winning writer assigns Shooter the right to publish their story on Shooter’s website and in the annual flash anthology, and to quote from the work across social media platforms.

To enter, please send the relevant fee via the PayPal buttons below before submitting your story/stories:

Single story entry (£5):

Discounted two-story entry (£8):

Please email editor Melanie Sykes-White at shooterlitmag@gmail.com with any questions. We look forward to reading your work!

2025 Shooter Flash Anthology

If you’d like to read all of the 2025 winners in beautifully presented magazine form, we offer a pdf anthology for £7.50, which we send via email.

The 2022-24 anthologies are also available – if you would like to order either of those editions, please specify in the notes at checkout, or email subscriptions.shooterlitmag@gmail.com.

To order the 2025 Shooter Flash Anthology (or any of the previous editions), please do so via the following link:

Recent Shooter Flash winners

• January 2026: “Sole Survivor” by Alexandra O’Sullivan