Welcome to Flash Takes Flight!

We are excited to announce our second annual flash fiction and flash creative nonfiction contest for the chance to win cash prizes as well as publication in the Santa Clara Review!

The first prize winner will be awarded $200, the first runner-up will be awarded $100, and the second runner-up will be awarded $50. The contest winner will be published in the 2025 fall issue of the Santa Clara Review. All other work will be considered for publication. 

We are pleased to announce that Claudia Monpere will be the final judge of the contest! Claudia Monpere is a Teaching Professor of creative writing at Santa Clara University who earned her MFA at San Francisco State University. She was the winner of the 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize from New Flash Fiction Review and the 2024 Refractions: Genre Flash Fiction Prize from Uncharted Magazine. Additionally, her story "Solar Flare" received the 2023 Smokelong workshop prize and appeared in Best Small Fictions 2024. Her flash fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, including Split Lip, Craft, SmokeLong Quarterly, Trampset, Atlas and Alice, Milk Candy Review, and The Forge.

We look forward to reading your submissions!

Guidelines:

• Please do not include your name anywhere on the submission itself. All identifying information that is not part of the work should be limited to the cover letter. 
• Please limit your submission to 1,000 words or less (exclusive of title)
• Identify in your cover letter and on the manuscript whether your piece is fiction or non-fiction.
• Submissions will close on May 16, 2025. 
• This contest is not open to affiliates of Santa Clara University or to those who have shared their writing with the contest judge. 
• No work already published or already accepted for publication is eligible for consideration (even if revised since original publication). We consider any appearance in print or online to be a publication, including newspapers, newsletters, magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, books, websites, blogs, social media, etc. This restriction applies regardless of the size of the print run or the extent of the circulation of previously published work.
• Failure to comply with these criteria for eligibility will immediately disqualify any entry, regardless of when the ineligiblity is discovered in the process of adjudication (submission, processing, screening, shortlisting, final judging).
• The entry fee for a disqualified or withdrawn submission will not be refunded.