✨ May Flash Fiction Competition ✨

Every culture has its myths. Every family, its legends. Every person, a story they’ve inherited and retold so many times it has begun to feel like truth … or a truth so strange it’s begun to feel like myth.

This month's theme is... ✨ MYTH ✨

Whether it’s an ancient story reimagined in a modern world, a family legend passed down through generations, a personal mythology you’ve built around yourself, or the moment you discovered that something you believed was never quite real - we want to read your tiny stories of lore, legend, and the truths that hide inside them.

We’re thrilled to welcome @josephlangleyauthor as our May guest judge! Joseph is a California-based fantasy author whose debut novel Runewave weaves magical botanists, runecasters, and impossible choices through a world rich with myth and lore. He first found his way into the WOAF community when he was in Melbourne in 2024, and has been one of our most generous long-distance contributors and cheerleaders ever since. On the theme of MYTH, Joseph puts it beautifully: “A myth is a thing retold and remembered. To tell one, you must reach up into the stars and weave a constellation. No two tellings of a myth are ever truly the same. Your telling is beautiful because it is yours. Bravely tell it, so that others may re-retell and re-remember a new shape of their own in the stars.”

🌿 Opens: 1st May
🌿 Closes: 15th May
📣 Winner announced: 25th May
📏 Word limit: 100 words (excluding title)

To enter: Email your flash fiction to hello@wordsofafeather.co with the subject line ‘May Flash Fiction Competition’. Include your name/pen name, Instagram handle, location, and a little about yourself.

One entry per person. Free to enter. Open to all ages, from anywhere in the world. The winner will be featured on @woafie.writers.studio and published on The Feather Journal.

If you have any questions, please send us a message - we'd love to help your story find its way. 🪶