New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)

Get Ready for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize | New Flash Fiction Review Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year's entries.

Thanks to all the writers who entered our 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize. We have enjoyed reading your work and are assembling a longlist to send to our judge for this competition, @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social. Best of luck!

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Still open for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize - deadline 15 Oct so 2 weeks to polish and shine! Loving the entries so far 😍

500 words
Winner $250
Two runners-up $100 each
Entry fee $10
We read anonymously

Check out the interview with judge @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and good luck!

And the Best of the Net Nominees are... | New Flash Fiction Review Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991"

Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction
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Get Ready for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize | New Flash Fiction Review Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year's entries.

Writers - enter the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize!

Max 500 words
Fee $10
Closes 15 Oct
Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social

"The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.”
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

Get Ready for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize | New Flash Fiction Review Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year's entries.

Writers - enter the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize!

Max 500 words
Fee $10
Closes 15 Oct
Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social

"The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.”
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

Re-opening: New Flash Fiction Review Prize New Flash Fiction Review Prize @nffr.bsky.social (Fiction; pays) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com/contest/new-flash-review-prize-new-flash-review-26977 #amwriting

New Flash Fiction Review Prize @nffr.bsky.social (Fiction; pays) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

We're opening subs for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize on 15 Sept!

Read what judge Graham Faulkner wants:

"Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers. The ability to create a mood, an intimacy, a connection."

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Love this new flash fiction piece from Andrew Graham Martin! newflashfiction.com/dorothy-by-a...

Yes, delighted when we read this one in our subs!

"The lesson is this—your fire will reduce everything to blackest soot, and you will be left alone. So, you give the boy a feather-light, tinkling laugh, and watch his world turn black."

This story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social is so beautiful and wonderfully alive.

Love that you find numbers soothing Sumitra. Thank goodness you're there to represent an alternative view!

Hah! You tell them Mizuki. This way lies 💔

"Even if you are not seen for who you really are." Sigh. Who hasn't been there? Thanks for sharing Pat.

It's a beauty! Thanks for sharing James.

This one has such a bite of truth in it. Have a read of Elana's interview. The setting sounds hard earned!

It's a great structure, isn't it? Handled very skillfully. Thanks for reading and sharing James!

SUCH a good line by Kathryn! Appreciate the way you're sharing and commenting on all the other stories in this issue Sumitra ❤️💙💜

You really FEEL the pineapple in this one!

Love Mitchell's use of numbers in this one. Thanks for sharing Sumitra 😍

A story of sartorial sass! Thanks for sharing Sumitra

Thanks so much Jaime! And thanks for sharing Ashleigh's story 😊

"[This story is based on] the aftermath of my father-in-law’s death. Though the rituals were performed for thirteen days, the tenth day was very emotional. That was when we said a final good-bye to the departed soul. That night my mother-in-law was made to sleep alone."

Vijayalakshmi Sridhar #NFFR

"I have a very strange brain that associates everything back to numbers. Numbers are immensely soothing to me as a person who grew up with a bewildering sensory, emotional and interpersonal world. Numbers never trip you up, they never do anything unexpected."

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social #NFFR

"A few months ago my toddler pointed to her closet and told us there were ghosts in there. When you’re a new parent, you spend an inordinate amount of time trying to decode your child's statements. With this story, I tried my best to cast this fleeting moment in plaster."

Andrew Martin #NFFR

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Don't miss this! Beyond their marvellous stories, our 10th anniversary issue contributors weigh in on their inspirations, mentors, writing in anxious times and what to make of themes.

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"For flash fiction, there’s a messy, resonant moment that usually comes to mind as inspiration. With such a tight word count, the tension has to be created from the first sentence, sustained through the slice of story, and end with an ambiguity that isn’t too frustrating."

Elana Lavine #NFFR

"In the US there have been attempts to censor everything, including the weather, and I was looking at the website for NOAA, one of the federal agencies under attack, and came across a list of meteorological terms, and that gave me the shape for the final story."

@writesofkathryn.bsky.social #NFFR

"Despite my difficulty with numbers, I find them comforting. My first son was born early and had to gain weight to catch up. Recently, I found the log of times I’d fed him and how much he’d had. The numbers would just float away if I didn’t write them down immediately."

Rebecca Klassen #NFFR