"The essential challenge of Friday Flash Fiction is to write a fresh new story or poem in time for publication that following Friday."​

Submissions: SHORT POETRY

Writers who wish to submit Short Poetry 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.

NOTE: New submitters must submit TWO classic 100-word stories
​and have them published before we will consider submissions for short poetry.

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

    STORYBOX (for short poems)

    I wish to submit the following short poem to Friday Flash Poetry.
    (e.g. The Selkirk Grace, by Robert Burns – please include the appropriate capitals, the comma, spaces and the name you wish to use.)
    ​
    FAILURE TO COMPLETE THIS FORM EXACTLY
    AS REQUESTED WILL LEAD TO
    ​YOUR SUBMISSION BEING REJECTED.
    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.
    (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.)
    FIRST-EVER SUBMISSION TO FRIDAY FLASH FICTION?
    Reminder: all newcomers must have
    TWO Classic 75-100 word stories published
    before we will consider other submissions
    BEFORE YOU SUBMIT, PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE FORM EXACTLY AS REQUESTED.
    TAKE PARTICULAR CARE WITH THE TOP BOX.

    For guidance on how to complete the Storybox, click here.
SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED AFTER 23:00 UK TIME ON FRIDAY WILL BE HELD OVER TO THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
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 poem has appeared elsewhere before;
  • the author has submitted two or more items (in any category) in the same week;
  • the entry form has been incorrectly completed. 
Each of these problems can be solved. But please – take care to complete the form properly.
IN THE WRONG PLACE?
This page is for entries for Short Poetry, but you might have been looking for one of the other categories. Click on the appropriate button below and hopefully you'll end up in the right place.
If you have problems, we'll still try to answer any problems CONTACT US, but all submissions must use the Storybox.
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 once your poem has been published.