Undergrad Flash Nonfiction Contest - No Entry Fee

The MFA in Writing Program at Lindenwood University presents a Flash Nonfiction Contest for current undergraduate students--in any major, at any university/college/community college--with no entry fee. The winner receives $100 and publication in issue 15 of The Lindenwood Review online literary journal. 

Flash Nonfiction pieces may be in any form, including traditional personal narrative essays, lyrical essays with poetic or stylistic language, or experimental creative nonfiction pieces that use a nontraditional format or structure. Send us any questions at TheLindenwoodReview@lindenwood.edu. 

All contest submissions will be considered for publication. Issue 15 will be published online by the end of April 2025.   

GUIDELINES:

• The Undergrad Flash Nonfiction Contest is open from February 10, 2025, through April 1, 2025.
• Undergraduate students may submit one flash nonfiction piece. 
• Length may range from one paragraph to five pages, double-spaced. 
• Submissions for this contest will be accepted by email or through Submittable. Students who do not have a Submittable account are welcome to email their submissions to TheLindenwoodReview@lindenwood.edu (please attach your submission as a Word document or pdf file, and please type Undergrad Contest in the subject line). 
• Include your name, your email address, and the title of your submission on the first page of your submission document. List your name exactly as you would like it to appear in our journal if accepted for publication.
• Simultaneous submissions to other journals are allowed, but we ask to be notified immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
• All publication decisions will be made by April 10, 2025. 
• Writers accepted for publication receive a book-formatted pdf of their accepted work, a pdf of the full book (issue 15), and a link for sharing their work. The journal will be published online by the end of April 2025.

To read samples of flash nonfiction pieces previously published by The Lindenwood Review, visit us at www.lindenwood.edu/LindenwoodReview. 

RESTRICTIONS:

• Do not submit work that has been previously published elsewhere, whether online or in print.
• Do not submit multiple pieces in your submission; include only one flash nonfiction piece.
• Note that the number of submissions we can receive each month is limited; during our submission period of February 10 through April 1, if our Submittable page indicates that we are not currently accepting work, that means the month's maximum has been met, so please wait until the beginning of the next month to submit your work (through the final deadline of April 1).

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Our MFA in Writing program offers a fully online option with no residency requirement, as well as offering an optional on-campus/hybrid class each term in St. Charles MO. Visit us at www.lindenwood.edu/mfawriting.