Here’s the story in 99 words: NCJ’s 99-word Flash Fiction Contest is on. Send up to three entries in the body of an email (no attachments or links) to fiction@northcoastjournal.com with your name and contact information (no pen names) by midnight Oct. 31. Dainty dramas, bite-sized adventures, flits of fantasy, micro-mysteries, half-pint hauntings, brief romances and scraps of science fiction are all welcome in 99 words or fewer (title not included). We’ll read your original fiction and run the winner and top tales in the Dec. 4 issue. No poetry and — sorry, robots — no AI-generated copy. Get typing, Humboldt.
Read the cream of last year’s crop here.
Where are the 2025 flash fiction stories? It’s 2026. A search of your website only shows 2024 and before.
It’s on the website. Here’s the link