The North Carolina Writers’ Network Marianne Gingher Flash Prose Contest is open to pieces of flash prose, fiction or creative nonfiction, of no more than 1,000 words. Entrants must have a mailing address in North Carolina or one of its four adjacent states (Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia), or be a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. The contest honors Marianne Gingher, former director of the Creative Writing Program at UNC Chapel Hill and editor of the pioneering flash anthology Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by 65 of North Carolina’s Finest Writers.
2026 Winner: The Trade by MAUREEN SHERBONDY