Your Legacy in Six Words

Gifts in wills play a vital role in securing The London Library’s future and ensuring that the Library remains a haven of creativity and community for readers, writers and thinkers for generations to come. To encourage members to think about how they might like to be remembered and whether a gift to the Library could form part of their legacy, Library trustee Daisy Goodwin is sponsoring and judging a prize for the best piece of flash fiction on the theme of ‘How you want to be remembered’. The winning entry will receive a prize of £500.

Flash fiction is an extremely brief form of fiction — telling a story in no more than six words. A famous example is attributed to Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” The six words include prepositions and conjunctions.

All current members of The London Library are invited to enter for the prize. Please read the eligibility criteria and submission guidelines before submitting your entry. To be considered, you must send your entry, along with your name, in the body of an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., making sure to follow the submission guidelines. The deadline for submissions is 11am on Friday 12 November 2021. The winner and runners up will be announced in the Library newsletter and on social media in December.

If you have any questions about the prize, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If you would like to find out more about leaving a gift in your will to The London Library, please call 020 7766 4795, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit our gifts in wills webpage.

We will look forward to receiving your entry.