We’re delighted to announce the return of our ever-popular French and Spanish Flash Fiction competitions for school students.

If you are learning French and/or Spanish in Years 7-13, you are invited to send us a *very* short, complete story of NO MORE THAN 100 WORDS. Our judges will be looking for imagination and narrative flair, as well as your ability to write in French or Spanish.

For inspiration, you can read last year’s winning entries for French, and for Spanish. There are two categories: Years 7-11 and Years 12-13. A first prize of £100 will be awarded to the winning entry in each category, with runner-up prizes of £25. The winning entries will be published on our blog, if you give us permission to do so.

The deadline for submissions is noon on Thursday 31st March 2022. If you would like to enter, click here to submit a story in French, and here to submit a story in Spanish. You may only submit one story per language but you are welcome to submit one story in French AND one story in Spanish if you would like to. Your submission should be uploaded as a Word document or PDF. Please note that, because of GDPR, teachers cannot enter on their students’ behalf: students must submit their entries themselves.

If you have any questions, please email us at schools.liaison@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk. Bonne chance à tous! ¡Buena suerte a todos!