Registrations are open for the TL;DR Press 2026 1000 Word Herd Contest!

get ready! registrations are open for the 2026 TL;DR Press 1000 Word Herd Competition!

register here: https://tldrpress-1kwhc-2026.eventbrite.com

Sign up through Eventbrite to participate in this week-long flash fiction competition, with a $200 top prize and a total prize pool of $800 for the top 25 placing stories!

Registration costs $7 USD (£5.16 GBP) to register + eventbrite fees.

Each entrant will receive 2 individual prompts at the beginning of the competition: a character and an object/situation. There are no genre restrictions. Each entrant must create a 1000-word original flash fiction story by the end of the competition and submit.

We offer each entrant guaranteed feedback on their story from their assigned judges. Offering writers a chance for feedback is one of TL;DR Press’s core missions, along with our philanthropic mission to create anthologies to benefit charities. This means we have to limit the spots available, so only 300 are available. First come, first serve!

The top 25 stories will also be included in an e-book collection, the proceeds of which will be donated to Trans LIfeline, a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

• Registration closes at 11:59 pm, May 27th
• The competition will begin at 12:01 am (eastern) on Sunday 31 May
• …and ends at 11.59 pm on Saturday, 06.

rules and regulations here: http://tldrpress.org/index.php/1kwhc-rules/