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    In our February/March writing challenge we asked you to write a scene in which your character does something they know is wrong or seems out of character. We […]

The brief for the December/January writing challenge was a simple one: Write a scene in which a mother and her teenage daughter go clothes shopping. Give us clues about their […]

For our October/November Writing Challenge we invited you to write a piece of flash fiction in which at first everything seems normal, but then your character starts to realise that […]

Here’s what we asked you to do for our August/September flash fiction challenge: Write a scene in which a long-held secret is revealed. Show us the consequences of this revelation […]

For our June/July Flash Fiction Challenge you were asked to write a scene in which a young child plays alone with a favourite toy. We received a bucketful of entries […]

For our our April/May flash fiction challenge we asked you to write about an environment that was unfamiliar and challenging for the characters, what we refer to in the Hero’s […]

For our February/March writing challenge, we asked you to write a scene in which a couple are meeting for a first date. We asked you to give us clues about […]

We had a flood of entries for our December/January writing challenge where we asked you to write a child-centred scene in which two older kids are playing with their infant […]

Lovely crop of entries for the October/November writing challenge. (I’m not sure what happened to the time. It reminds me of Douglas Adam’s airy dismissal of time constraints: “I just […]

Saving a surprise for the most dramatic moment is devilishly difficult. One film-maker who’s managed it is M Shaylaman Night, most notably in his breakout movie, Sixth Sense. The longer you [...]