The Extremely Short Story Competition is a 50word short story competition which invites students at universities, tertiary colleges and  secondary schools for local/national non-native English speaking students to write stories which could be fact or fiction; poetry or prose but which have to be exactly 50 words in length.

"Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself ot be tempted by more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid." - H.W. Fowler

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