It’s a write-off!

500 words

60 hours

2 teams

1 winner

Choose a team and write a 500-word story based on your team’s prompts to compete for thousands of dollars in cash prizes & print publication. Then stick around for the Not Quite Write Podcast afterparty, where the judges will unpack the competition stats and celebrate the top stories!

1st Prize: $1,500 | 2nd $1,000 | 3rd $500 | 4th $350 | 5th $250 | 6th $200 | plus 3x $100 Wildcard Prizes

The winner receives a trophy and the top 6 stories feature in a dramatised reading on the podcast and are published in our annual Best of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction anthology.

2026 Dates:

Jan 23-25 | Apr 24-26 | Jul 24-26 | Oct 23-25

For more information and to sign up, head to notquitewriteprize.com.