Hip, inclusive online journal for flash and memoir. 

Bright Flash Literary Review is an online journal for flash, short fiction and memoir. Minimum word count 50; maximum word count 1500. Response time is less than 30 days. Stories posted during the first week of every month. No submission fee. No payment.

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Bright Flash Literary Review

If your work is declined, please wait 30 days before submitting again. If your work is accepted, please wait 60 days before submitting again.

General call

Hilary Ayshford is a former science journalist and editor based in rural Kent in the UK. She writes flash fiction and short stories and has been nominated for Best Of The Net and Best Small Fictions. She likes her music in a minor key and has a penchant for the darker side of human nature.
https://hilaryayshford-writer.weebly.com
Bluesky: @hilary55.bsky.social
Threads: hilaryayshford
X: @hilary553

Author bio

JS Apsley is an aspiring author based in Glasgow, Scotland. He won the Ringwood Publishing short story prize 2024 for his debut fiction submission, "Immersion", which inspired him to keep writing, and find homes for some of his other work. 

He has since placed short stories and flash fiction with a number of  publishers, podcasts and presses including: Bewildering Stories, Bright Flash Literary, Brussels Literary Review, Loft Books, Lowlife Lit Press, Lovecraftiana, Tales to Terrify, WildSound Horror Festival, and Underside Stories.

JS Apsley is the pen name of a non-fiction author who has been published multiple times by institutional publishers such as Edinburgh University Press.

He can be contacted at info@jsapsley.com. See www.jsapsley.com.

Brief Bio - JS Apsley

JS Apsley is an aspiring author based in Glasgow, Scotland. He won the Ringwood Publishing short story prize 2024 for his debut fiction submission, "Immersion".

He has placed various stories including: Bewildering Stories, Bright Flash Literary, Brussels Literary Review, Loft Books, Lowlife Lit Press, Lovecraftiana, and Underside Stories.

See www.jsapsley.com.

Bio Under 50 words

Dear Editors

I am an aspiring author based in Glasgow, Scotland, and I write to you to submit my short story "Name", a work of approx "X" words. 

I won the Ringwood Publishing short story prize 2024 for my debut fiction submission, "Immersion", which has inspired me to keep writing, and find homes for my other stories. 

I have since been fortunate to place short stories and flash fiction with a number of  publishers, podcasts and presses including: Bewildering Stories, Bright Flash Literary, Brussels Literary Review, Loft Books, Lowlife Lit Press, Lovecraftiana, Tales to Terrify, WildSound Horror Festival, and Underside Stories.

Please note this is a sim-sub; and that my real name is Stephen McGowan. I write my fiction work under the pen name JS Apsley.

I hope you enjoy this piece and to hear from you.

Regards

Dear Editor

Daniel Crépault is a criminologist, addiction treatment provider, and emerging short fiction writer. He lives in Ottawa, Canada with his wife and two beautiful children.

Short Bio

Daniel Crépault (he/him) likes _____ and _____. His short stories have appeared in publications such as Litbreak, _____, and ________. Daniel has a Doctorate in Criminology from the University of Ottawa and a Master’s in Legal Studies from Carleton University. He lives on the ancestral land of the Mohawk people in Embrun, Ontario with his wife and two sons. 

Longer Bio

Kim kjagain Moes loves dandelions, exploring fresh places, and laughing at herself. Her work appears in multiple journals, most recently in Jake Magazine. @kjagain on almost all social media. On writing, she says, “Write the life we live, explore the lessons not yet learned, and then, eat catharsis for dinner.”


Basic Bio < 50 words

Me.

You. 

We two. 

Together as one. 

Till death us do part. 

Or until one of us has had enough.

Or perhaps we will be the lucky ones who grow together, not apart.

Fibonnaci's Wife Figures Out Love

Diya survived breast cancer, but with almost dying out of the way, what is left in life?

Free Fall

The Invisible Woman

Just outside, on the lawn leading down to the harbor, two children, a tall thin girl who looked about ten and a husky red-cheeked boy, maybe two years her junior, were in the middle of a spontaneous dance-off. Both children danced to imagined beats,

Dancers

Tabatha

Stolen from the Sea

Sour And Sweet

Granddogs

sweet micro about parents and kids, brownies and salmon

The Kid Calls Home

Here, you see the parrotfish pecking. Its false beak bops bops bops off the coral, munching. It is your favorite species, something about royalty, or traffic...

In the water, with fins

Pink Tulips

Burning Nest

Unknowingly Lost

Erica leaves tomorrow. But right now, we are a hundred miles from home sitting outside of a 24-hour Korean supermarket, somewhere between Tulsa and the end of the world. I am alone in the predawn with only the steady dinging rhythm telling me...

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