Flash the Court Gold Star Program Gold Star

Hi. It’s me. I’m the Court. Flash me.

Five hundred words or fewer, please. Fiction or nonfiction, I don’t care, and I never lie. No need to define genre, truly truly. We’re all rebel writers here.

I also dngaf about arc. Your evil main character persists in her evil ways? More power to her. Your plot thickens but never coalesces? Whatever. That’s life. I’m great with fragmentation. I’m happy with hybridity. I’m all about an unresolved ending.

So give me your misguided but earnest conversations, your steamy scenes, your personal polemics. Give me your queer, your diverse, your dream. Come one, come all—just keep it short and snappy and sassy. Lyricism and lingering language welcome. Prose poetry is perfect. Transgression is even better.

Unfortunately, at present, in order to keep the lights on, I must charge a $5 reading fee per submission, but every submission receives personalized feedback, and contracted contributors are paid $50. Find new breathtaking work on Flash the Court every Friday.

Want to try something new? Try it here. With me.

Guidelines

I don’t have too many rules here:

Five hundred words or fewer, please.

Send prose of any genre, including prose poetry.

Use Times New Roman 12, if you’re able to do so.

Submissions cost $5, but only because they must.