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Special Issues
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The Trash
Calendar
Submissions always open at 9am and close at 8pm on the given dates. UK time.
2026
AUTUMN POP-UP
1st – 23rd August
PROMPTED CHALLENGE
Flash 100 to 500
Guidelines HERE
NEW FOR TCL!
HALLOWEEN HORROR
27th September to 11th October
BIOHAZARD HORROR
Flash 100 to 1000
Guidelines HERE
WINTER GENERAL
1st to 14th November
WINTER STORIES
Flash 100-750
Short Stories up to 2000
Guidelines HERE
Mood Board HERE
WINTER POP-UP
1st to 14th December
HOW DID IT END?
Post-Apocalypse Stories
Fiction 300-2000
Guidelines HERE
TRASH CAT LIT 