Here, we’d like to collect a list of New Flash Fiction stories or stories by NFFR Editors that have received acclaim in the award and anthology space. If we’re missing any, please let us know and we’ll get them added!
Best Small Fictions 2021!
When the Pregnant Girls First Arrive at St. Eulalia’s Home for the Lost and Wayward by Audra Kerr Brown
Regeneration by Epiphany Ferrell
Best Microfiction 2021!
I’ve Seen Bigger by Lori Sambol Brody
BEST BRITISH & IRISH FLASH FICTION 2019-2020 aka The BIFFY 50!
On the Last Ferry to Inishbofin by Roberta Beary
More Than Sex by Carmen Marcus
My Sister the Arsonist by Meg Pokrass
2020 Wigleaf Top 50
Three Ways of Saying the Same Thing by Leonora Desar
Best Small Fictions 2019
Shop Girl by Dionne Irving Bremyer
How Not to Become an Expat by Kara Vernor
W.W. Norton’s Anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
Here, we’d like to record our annual nominations to the anthologies. It’s a tough and subjective thing to pick each year. We hope it represents the love of flash fiction at NFFR, but please remember, we love all of our stories and our NFFR family!
New Flash Fiction Review Nominations
2022 Best Microfiction Nominations:
Scar Tissue by Sabrina Hicks
Unremarkable by Jill Witty
Lucky Lucky Tinsel Cake by April Bradley
Used Hearse by Sandie Friedman
Codes to Live By by Jude Higgins
2022 Pushcart Nominations:
Dear Leo #12 by Leonora Desar
The Eelgrass is Dead by Gabrielle Griffis
Come, Come by Kim Magowan
The Live Dog Show by Angela Readman
2021 Best of the Net Nominations:
Used Hearse by Sandie Friedman
Slip by Jason Zwiker
2021 Best Small Fiction Nominations:
Little Red Riding Hood by Katerina Kischynska
Last Day by Briana Maley
Uncle by Anthony Varallo
The Ghost that Haunts My House by Madeline Anthes
The Elephant in the Room by Frankie McMillan
2021 Best Microfiction Nominations:
Red Riding Hood by Katerina Kischynska
Last Day by Briana Maley
I’ve Seen Bigger by Lori Sambol Brody
Pigs Die by Contstance Malloy
Boots Left Standing Under Mud by Daryll Scroggins
Lions by Emma Kernahan
2021 Pushcart:
Red Riding Hood by Katerina Kischynska
The Ghost that Haunts my House by Madeline Anthes
En Aeropuertos by Pat Foran
The Swan, the Sheep, and the Bejeweled Mirror by Mary Thompson
Trip-trapping by Sara Hills
End of Days at the Dairy Queen by Morgana MacLeod
July 2020 BIFFY Nominations:
Surveillance by Nuala O’ Connor
The Swan, The Sheep, and the Bejeweled Mirror by Mary Thompson
2020 Best of the Net Nominations
Little Red Riding Hood by Katerina Kishcynska
My Taurus Mama by Francine Witte
2020 Best Small Fictions Nominations
The Truth about Men by Angela Readman
Game Theory by Merridawn Duckler
Eternal by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Fable Number 1: Des Moines, Iowa by Luke Rolfes
Ward Rounds by Alexis Wolfe
2020 Pushcart Nominations
Nuala O’Connor “There But For”
Rebekah Bergman “Certain Solitary Creatures”
Hugh Behm-Steinberg “The Names of Things”
Frankie McMillan “The Winter Swimming of my Grandmother”
Leonora Desar “Words”
Lori Sambol Brody “Visiting Day”
2019 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Everything, then Silence by Justin Hermann
How Not to Become an Expat by Kara Vernor
The Difference between Alligators and Crocodiles by Cathy Ulrich
Two Girls Contemplate What Gorillas Do at Night by Angela Readman
Anatomy of a Marriage by Stephanie Hutton
2018 Pushcart Nominations
Raki Kopernik, Homely
Jaqueline Doyle, Pretty Girl
AE Weisgerber, Sweet Violets
Salvatore Difalco, Three Days
Paul Crenshaw, “Fuck Zeus,” Ms. Lynne Said in Fourth Period English
Carolyn Oliver, The Hive Vandal
2018 Best of the Net Nominations
“Tooth” by Whitney Scharer and “Out of Reach” by Steve Cushman.