2026 Flash Prose Contest - Heat

Magazine1 is proud to host its first ever flash prose contest. This contest hopes to find the prose (both fiction and non) that brings the reader directly into the chair they're sitting in. The kind of writing that makes you feel like you're seeing the world in 3D for the first time. For our first theme we wanted to do something all Floridians are familiar with. Heat. The kind of heat that encircles your head, cutting your body off from your thoughts. The kind of heat that rises with the bile in your throat. The heat that burns from inside of you, fighting at your edges to escape, even if it has to blow you apart to do so. When submitting, please take the theme into consideration. The heat of your piece doesn't have to by physical. It doesn't have to be emotion. Hell, it doesn't have to be anything I've thought of before. It just has to be hot. In one way or another.