Sometimes coffee can be downright scary.

To honor of the start of Spooky Season, Sprudge’s annual beloved Halloween Horror Flash Fiction series is back for 2024!

A horrifying and beloved mostly-annual tradition on Sprudge since 2016, the week before Halloween this very website publishes original, startling flash fiction writing with a spooky Halloween theme. Today we’re opening up the pitching process, looking for writers who want to publish their own terrifying coffee horror flash fiction on Sprudge.

This is a paid opportunity! We’re looking for a total of three original stories from three unique writers, and offering an honorarium of $100 to each of the winning entries. No past writing experience is required, but please know we’ll be selecting stories based on how fun and terrifying they are to read—and whether or not they fit our haunted vision for this year’s week of spooky content.

Enter the Sprudge Halloween Flash Fiction Contest Today! 

Shoot for around 1000 words or so for your entry, but unlike a lot of fiction contests, we aren’t *too* particular on word count, so do your thing and have fun. We can’t wait to read your horrific sojourns through the dark roast corners of the human mind.

A complete archive of past Sprudge Halloween fiction is available here. Here are just some examples of some of our very favorite past spooky coffee fiction stories from the cursed doomscape of memory:

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Just A Barista by Niki Tolch (Halloween Week 2020)

The Siren & The Worm by Lizzie Derksen (Halloween Week 2016)

The Panel by Michelle Johnson (Halloween Week 2018)

The Trade Secret by Levi Rogers (Halloween Week 2020)

Extreme Measures by Olivia Laskowski (Halloween Week 2020)

The Picture of Finca Dorian Grey (Halloween Week 2022)

Ghosted Delivery by Mike Ferguson (Halloween Week 2021)

It Came From The Espresso Machine by Zachary Carlsen (Halloween Week 2016)

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Happy haunting!

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