Call for Entries: Flash 405, February 2026: “Oops" - Exposition Review Oops, we’re doing it again—kicking off another year of Flash 405! February is the start of our short-form season, with contests running every other month through September. Each Flash 405 contest will...

Flash 405 submissions close tonight!! Send your “Oops”-themed short-form writing in any genre to Heather Vaughan now: tinyurl.com/FlashOops.

#Flash405 #ExpoReview #writingcontest #writerslife #callforsubmissions

How to Play Hockey with Men - Exposition Review by Roxanne Geti Honorable Mention – Flash 405, June 2017: “Nemesis” Fiction   Tip #1: Get Good Quickly You represent all women, so don’t fuck up. Recreational ice hockey is technically coed, so no one...

Now reading Roxanne Geti’s Flash 405 “Nemesis” winner, HOW TO PLAY HOCKEY WITH MEN. Read it here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/ho....

#Flash405 #hockey #womenshockey @lilrensing.bsky.social

Only Animals Check out Only Animals - "Chelsea Sutton's writing is electric. The stories in Only Animals crackle with wit, emotion, and big, strange ideas that linger long after you're finished reading." - Gwenda ...

…and while you’re at it, read her short story collection ONLY ANIMALS (Blurb Books) (available in our @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/only...), and read her #Flash405: “Monster” flash fiction winner THE CLINKING OF COINS: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th...!

Today we’re spotlighting @lumchanmfa.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Illumination” winners! Find flash fiction, flash nonfiction & flash poetry by @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, Meg Taylor, @francesgapper.bsky.social, Alice Hatcher & Liana Meffert in our #Flash405: 2025 Issue: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25.

Flash 405, April 2025: “Quitting" Winners - Exposition Review Summer may be in full swing, but here at Expo, we’re still basking in the glow “Spring.” And, in the spirit of not “quitting” the season, we have even more new work to share: the winners of our latest...

This week we’re celebrating our Flash 405, April 2025: “Quitting” winners. Judge Francesca Spiegel chose flash fiction and flash nonfiction pieces by @refaelpaulo.bsky.social, @scmart.bsky.com, @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social & Angela Townsend: tinyurl.com/Quitting405. #Flash405

Sanctuary - Exposition Review by Abigail Mills Honorable Mention – Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor” Fiction   The mothers told your mother that you are a bad influence. They smell the smoke on your pleather jacket. They found yo...

Read Abigail Mille’s flash fiction #Flash405 winner SANCTURY: expositionreview.com/flash-405/sa...

Shells - Exposition Review by Evelyn Krieger 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor” Experimental   I never told anyone this, but the day after my mother died, I ate her unfinished red velvet birthday cake. Still ...

Read @evelynkrieger.bsky.social’s flash experimental #Flash405 winner hwre: expositionreview.com/flash-405/sh...!

You Never Really Come Back from Space - Exposition Review by Laila Amado 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor” Fiction   Back on Earth, your body becomes a jellyfish. Soft and undulating, it no longer knows how to walk. I remember how you use...

Read @amadolaila.bsky.social’s flash fiction #Flash405 winner YOU NEVER REALLY COME
BACK FROM SPACE hwre: expositionreview.com/flash-405/yo...

Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor" Winners - Exposition Review In her call for submissions for our February 2025 Flash 405 contest, “Anchor”, judge Ashley Moon asked for stories about what “holds you down.” We received many incredible entries, but the winners of ...

First up, we have Ashley Moon’s February 2025 “Anchor” contest featuring flash fiction and experimental works from @amadolaila.bsky.social, @evelynkrieger.bsky.social, and Abigail Mills. Click to our stories to read: expositionreview.com/2025/05/flas...
#ExpoReview #Flash405

Join us every Friday in February as we celebrate our #Flash405: 2025 Issue. We’ll be spotlighting each piece in our posts and our stories, which we’ll save to our story highlights for your continued reading pleasure.

Call for Entries: Flash 405, February 2026: “Oops" - Exposition Review Oops, we’re doing it again—kicking off another year of Flash 405! February is the start of our short-form season, with contests running every other month through September. Each Flash 405 contest will...

We’re kicking off another year of #Flash405 with #ExpoReview ’s own Heather Vaughan! See’s selected the theme “Oops” for her writing contest, which is now open through March 5, 2026.

Read about rules & theme: tinyurl.com/FlashOops.

#shortform #writingcontest #callforsubmissions

As we prep to launch our first 2026 Flash 405 writing contest, we’re looking at our 2025 submission stats. With 1480+ submissions, we had a record-setting year, including over 360 #Flash405 submissions! We’re grateful to our submitters & excited to open subs on February 4: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash405!

Did you get our most recent #ExpoExtra & see our 2025 highlights? If not subscribe here and stay in the know for our 2026 #Flash405 calls for submissions & new works, #ExpoIntern projects, #ExpoPresents: Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” Launch Party & Reading: tinyurl.com/GetExpoExtra.

Mission to Mars - Exposition Review by Linda Willing 1st Place – Flash 405, April 2017: Trinie Dalton’s “Shangri-La” Fiction   Are you okay with never coming back? That’s the first thing they ask at the interview. You’re sitting there i...

Processing life in America with Linda Willing’s words and immigrant themes. Read her #Flash405 winner MISSION TO MARS here: expositionreview.com/test/flash-4....

Rereading our #Flash405: “Illumination” winners, now available in our Flash 405: 2025 Issue: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25.

@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social

@francesgapper.bsky.social

Absolute Magnitude - Exposition Review by Chloe N. Clark 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction   In another life, Cassie lives. She wakes up in the hospital, a slow blinking to consciousness, and the doctors say miracle. Her father drives her home and says all the things they will do to celebrate. He tucks her in… Continue reading Absolute Magnitude →

Get her book in our #ExpoContributor @bookshop.org, and read her #Flash405 flash fiction winner ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE while you wait for it to arrive: expositionreview.com/flash-405/ab...

#scifi #ExpoRecommends #ExpoReview

Time take time to reread our “Quitting”-themed flash fiction and flash nonfiction winners, now featured in our Flash 405: 2025 Issue: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25
@glossyruin.bsky.social
@refaelpaulo.bsky.social @scmart.bsky.social @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social #Flash405 #ExpoReview #ExpoContributor

With our 2025 #Flash405 issue published, we’re looking back at all of last year’s contests, starting with Ashley Moon’s “Anchor” theme. Read flash fiction & flash experimental by @amadolaila.bsky.social, @evelynkrieger.bsky.social & @abigail-mills.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash25.

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#Flash405 #ExpoContributor shoutouts to @amadolaila.bsky.social, @evelynkrieger.bsky.social, @refaelpaulo.bsky.social, @scmart.bsky.social, @unmutable.bsky.social, @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @francesgapper.bsky.social, @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, @reubenwu.bsky.social & more…

I've been away from socials a little bit, but excited to share my story got an honorable mention with @expositionreview.bsky.social for their recent #Flash405 themed "normal" 🌿

Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" Winners - Exposition Review Our August Flash 405 contest invited us to consider flash stories on the theme of normal—but the response we received to this prompt was anything but! After an amazing year of Flash 405 contests, this...

Help us congratulate the newest writers of the #ExpoFam! Read experimental flash by Tara Dugan, flash fiction by JR Fenn and @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social, and flash nonfiction by Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley: tinyurl.com/Normal405.

#Flash405 #ExpoReview #ExpoContributor
#Normal

A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/th....
#ExpoReview @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

A car made of books? Yes please! Thank you Mr. Brainwash & Petersen Museum…

Plus this Magritte riff has us thinking of John Brady’s #Flash405: “Change in Perspective” winner THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH A PIPE. Read it here: bit.ly/This405.

#Flash405 @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

Chrysalis in the Dark - Exposition Review by Meg Taylor 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Poetry   I kept joy folded between tax returns, light too loud for the girl who learned to flinch. Still, something in me gnaws li...

“The author’s use of this metaphor is perfect & that last line is gorgeous. I love that they have woven, in this darkness, change & the possibility of escape,” says #Flash405 judge @lumchanmfa.bsky.social of Meg Taylor’s #Flash405 2nd-place winner. Read Meg’s flash poem here tinyurl.com/Chrysalis405

Call for Entries: Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" - Exposition Review Mark your calendars–Flash 405 will re-open for submissions on August 4! Our Flash 405 writing contest is a celebration of extraordinary short-form narratives, accepting work in multiple genres, from p...

Only 3 days left to submit your multi-genre flash writing to judge Kiana Shaley’s “Normal”-themed Flash 405 writing contest! Details: tinyurl.com/FlashNormal.

#Flash405 #ExpoReview #callforsubmissions

…and while you wait for THE COVER GIRL, read @mossyair.bsky.social’s flash nonfiction, 2nd place winner of our first ever #Flash405 writing contest NOTHING LOOKS AS EMPTY AS THE CHAIR YOU’RE SITTING IN: tinyurl.com/Nothing405!

#ExpoContributor #pubday #novel

Call for Entries: Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" - Exposition Review Mark your calendars–Flash 405 will re-open for submissions on August 4! Our Flash 405 writing contest is a celebration of extraordinary short-form narratives, accepting work in multiple genres, from p...

🚨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Our final #Flash405 of 2025 is OPEN! Submit your flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, & experiential writing by September 5 to judge Kiana Shaley’s “Normal” theme for your chance to win cash prizes and publication! Submit here: tinyurl.com/FlashNormal

Flash 405, April 2025: “Quitting" Winners - Exposition Review Summer may be in full swing, but here at Expo, we’re still basking in the glow “Spring.” And, in the spirit of not “quitting” the season, we have even more new work to share: the winners of our latest...

“The submitted works surprised me by packing glittering complexity into their tiny molds.”

Read @glossyruin.bsky.social’s #Flash405: “Quitting” winners: fiction by @rafaelpaulo.bsky.social, Suzanne C Martinez & @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social
& nonfiction by Angela Townsend: tinyurl.com/Quitting405.

Flash 405, February 2025: “Anchor" Winners - Exposition Review In her call for submissions for our February 2025 Flash 405 contest, “Anchor”, judge Ashley Moon asked for stories about what “holds you down.” We received many incredible entries, but the winners of ...

While we’re waiting for our latest #Flash405 winners to be announced, read the winners of Ashley Mooncake’s “Anchor” contest with flash fiction and experimental writing by @amadolaila.bsky.social, @evelynkrieger.bsky.social, and @abigailmills.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/Anchor405!

Call for Entries: Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination" - Exposition Review Flash 405 is brighter than ever for June 2025! We are thrilled to introduce our incredible guest judge, Melissa Llanes Brownlee, and share her chosen theme for this round: “Illumination.” Flash 405 is...

Submissions are open for Flash 405! Our June multi-genre writing contest is guest judged by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social. Enter your “Illumination”-themed writing by July 5: tinyurl.com/FlashIllumination!

#Flash405 #flash #writingcompetition #callforsubmissions