Poetry Submissions

The Andrew Siderius Memorial Competition: SHORT POETRY COMPETITION

Writers who wish to submit entries for the Friday Flash Poetry competition should use THIS page. Please complete the form (using the Storybox below) for the poems themselves – it's easier to manage editorially and helps us stay in line with data protection legislation.

POEMS SHOULD BE NO LONGER THAN 160 WORDS OR BE LONGER THAN 16 LINES.

You may enter one short poem only in each of three separate entry windows:

Saturday 13th February at 01.00 to the end of the day, midnight UK time, Friday 19th February
Saturday 20th February at 00.00 to the end of the day, midnight UK time, Friday 26th February
Saturday 27th February at 00.00 to the end of the day, midnight UK time, Friday 5th March

STORYBOX (for short poems)

I wish to enter the story below for the Friday Flash Poetry competition.

* Indicates required field

Title of Poem, AND Author Name (set out as shown below, please) *

(e.g. The Selkirk Grace, by Robert Burns – please include the appropriate capitals, the comma, spaces and the name you wish to use.)

Please indicate your poem's theme(s). Choose at least one. *

Food Travel Sport

Word count *

REMINDER: submissions should be reasonably short – see the guidelines opposite. No poem that is either longer than 160 words, or that contains more than 16 lines, will be accepted. Please make sure your wordcount is accurate.

Please insert your poem into the box below.

SHORT POEM *

(If you have any special instructions, such as italics, etc, please just add them at the end of the poem. We'll try to accommodate if we can. Please note that formatting of poetry on a website can be extremely challenging, however.)

Name (for legal reasons, please use your real name here.) *

First

Last

Email *

General Data Protection Regulation Consent *

I give consent for Friday Flash Fiction to store my data in accordance with the European 2018 GDPR

Declaration *

I certify that I have provided my real name and email address, and am not using a VPN.

First-Time-Ever Submitters please tick here *

Please check this box if this is your first ever submission to Friday Flash Fiction. It greatly helps admin, and is the only sure way to be added to our voters' register.

SEND MY STORY

FLASH FICTION POETRY SUBMISSIONS GUIDANCE
Please read this before submitting

The main reasons why poetry submissions are rejected are:

they're too long – usually too many lines. Poems should be little more than a sonnet, although haikus are also accepted;
the quality of writing is poor, often from someone unfamiliar with the English language;
the judges deem the submission to be prose, not poetry;
they're submitted as attachments, such as Word;
the stories have appeared elsewhere before;
the entry form has been incorrectly completed.

None of these problems is insoluble.

IN THE WRONG PLACE?

This page is for entries for the Short Poetry Competition, but you might have been looking for one of the other contests. Click on the appropriate button below and hopefully you'll end up in the right place.

Classic 100-Word Contest

Longer Flash Competition

During the competition, we'll still try to answer any problems sent to the email address below, but all submissions must use the Storybox.

submissions@fridayflashfiction.com

To all authors: please note that we never copy and paste from any other site for a number of reasons including copyright. If it isn't submitted directly, it isn't submitted at all. That also applies to stories submitted to LinkedIn or to the FridayFlashFiction blog (see also Our Posting Relationship with Other Sites in the T&Cs).

But we don't claim any sort of exclusive rights here, so feel free to submit your story anywhere else after the results of the competition are in.