Category: Prize Entrants

  • Writing rules: Use active voice

    Writing rules: Use active voice

    Understand the writing “rules” so you can break them in style.

  • Breaking the rule: ‘Use active voice’

    Breaking the rule: ‘Use active voice’

    The anti-prompt for the July 2025 Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction challenges writers to Break the rule, ‘Use active voice’. Whether you’ve been bashing your head against our anti-prompts for 2 years, or you’re completely green to the Not Quite Write experience, we understand that the concept of the anti-prompt can be confusing.…

  • WTF is an ‘anti-prompt’?

    WTF is an ‘anti-prompt’?

    Like many other writing competitions, the Not Quite Write Prize uses creative writing prompts to inspire and challenge entrants (and to ensure your entries are written for this comp and not some other purpose). Unlike other writing competitions, the Not Quite Write Prize also includes something called an “anti-prompt”. The Not Quite Write Prize anti-prompt…

  • How the Judging Process Works

    How the Judging Process Works

    At Not Quite Write, we value transparency in the judging process, so we’ve put together this handy overview so you can see what happens after you hit “Submit”.

  • How to format your Not Quite Write Prize Entry

    How to format your Not Quite Write Prize Entry

    We know what it’s like to enter a competition and wonder how the story will look on the other end, particularly when submitting via an online form. In the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share a little more detail about how the entry process works. We hope it helps to soothe some of those…

  • How to Win the Not Quite Write Prize

    How to Win the Not Quite Write Prize

    The judges of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction share their tips for writing prize-winning flash.