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The Flood
PJPaul Jackson
3 min read·Drama
All Competitions
Open for entries
Welcome to StorySloth - The StorySloth 500
Opens 6 April 2026Closes 3 May 20262 entries
Prizes
Top price: £50 Amazon voucher + A permanent founding author badge on your StorySloth profile. Plus 5 randomly selected stories will receive £10 in Amazon vouchers.
About
StorySloth is a new home for original short fiction. Free to read, and built around the idea that independent authors deserve real readers.
To kick things off, we're keeping it simple. Five hundred words. No theme, no genre restrictions, no prompt. Just a story, complete and under the limit. Sign up, publish your entry, and if it wins, you'll walk away with a £50 Amazon voucher and a permanent Founding Author badge on your profile — a small mark that you were here first.
We'll also be randomly selecting 5 entries to receive a £10 Amazon voucher.
Rules & Guidelines
Open to all registered StorySloth authors (free to sign up)
Maximum 500 words — titles are not counted toward the limit
Any genre or subject matter
Original, unpublished work only — you keep your copyright
One entry per author
All entries must pass standard StorySloth human review before being entered into the competition
Deadline
3 May 2026
Word count
400–600
Entries per author
Up to 5
