Welcome to Flash Takes Flight!

We are excited to announce that we are running a 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. Also, please limit your submission to 1,000 words or less. 

Submissions will close on May 2nd, 2025.