TFi Flash

For the latest urban fantasy-flavoured flash fiction follow the drop-down menu

Submission Guidelines:

1. We are looking for submissions of upto 1000 words - and it can be a lot less - but the content must be within the urban fantasy genre. Although as our definition explains on the home page, this covers the whole sci-fi, dark fantasy, stripstream, steampunk, cyberpunk, dieselpunk, horror, ghost story side of speculative fiction. And please note that a flash fiction short story is just that – a complete story. A 1000 word extract from a longer story or a 1000 word first episode of a longer series is not flash fiction.

2. We ONLY accept submissions by email. Submissions must be made digitally as either RTF, Microsoft Word or Apple Pages documents attached to an email OR as text within the body of the email. NO .EXE file please.

3. Don't worry about choice of font, spacing, typesize, whether to indent new paragraphs or insert line-breaks, we will sort out the formatting when we post it into this zine.

4. Please include a short biographical note - 20-to-30 words max - about yourself. And yes you can be flippant and include a web URL or links to publications. (Max 2 links).

5. Contributors must accept full responsibility for the accuracy of their spelling as (a) we can't spell and (b) you may be using terms of art or unusual spelling deliberately.

6. Please DO NOT submit work that includes copyright material (such as pictures) belonging to other people/third parties unless you can supply us with written authorisation by that person/third party.

7. As the author you retain full copyright in your work. By submitting a piece of writing to us, you are merely granting a non-exclusive right (or bare licence) to reproduce your work.

8. Unlike many magazines, webzines and competition organizers we don't care if a piece has been previously published elsewhere - providing the author still retains copyright.

9. The one caveat we do make is no simultaneous submission please (and that includes work also being submitted to competitions) if only because it causes us unnecessary aggro when, having accepted a piece, the author then gets it accepted elsewhere in one of those 'previously unpublished' outfits and wants to unsubmit it to us - or else even asks us to delete from the webzine a piece we have already published.

10. We do not offer a critical review service - you'll have to get that from your local writers group or creative writing tutor. On the other hand if we do reject a piece we will not make any snitty, rude comments about it.

11. While nothing is sacred - though it must be within the urban fantasy genre (see definition on home page) - we do reserve the right to reject any submission we feel is deliberately and/or unnecessarily offensive or legally actionable.

12. We currently do not pay for submissions - we have no money - but it is our intention to publish an annual ebook of stories previously published on this zine.

13. Send all submissions to Charles Christian at charles@charles-christian.com