Flash Fiction Competition

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Flash Fiction 

competition!

6 entries

Merletcollege can send 6 stories 

to the jury!

AHA-moment

• Think of interesting things that you have learned from today's or yesterday's lessons (any subject).

AHA-moments

Pick one and and answer these questions:

• What strikes you about the AHA moment? 
• What moved you? Or made you think?
  
   Look at the AHA moment differently:
• What if it took place in a different time?
• What if I look at it from a different perspective:
    a different person, thing?
  
• What if it took place in a different place?

Flash Fiction rules

• Spark description: max 75 words.
• Story: max 150 words.
• Hand both in before Februari 11th. 

SOAP - basics of flash fiction

• Specific: 1 place & time, 1 event, max 2 characters (112).
• Omission: leaving things out for the reader to figure out.
• Action: in medias res.
• Precision: vocabulary & grammar. 

Examples

last year's winners