Issue 36:

Spring 2025

Featuring work by Mikki Aronoff, Alyssa Aung, Jack Barrie, Jill Bronfman, Rebecca Croser, Peter DeMarco, Travis Flatt, Jaime Gill, Kat Gonso, Robert McBrearty, Kim Murdock, Nora Nadjarian, Chris Scott, and Nathan Leslie.

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What’s New?

Owning Anger & Writing Grace: An Interview with Claudia Monpere

Feb 15, 2025

Cole Beauchamp chats with Claudia Monpere, the winner of the 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize, about where she finds inspiration, the best apple for mental health, why she writes in her car instead of her office, owning anger and writing more grace and hope.

Best Small Fictions, Pushcart, and Best Microfiction Nominations!

Dec 17, 2024

Congratulations from NFFR to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025, the Pushcart Prizes, and Best Microfiction 2025!

Introducing the 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize Winners!

Dec 1, 2024

Immense thanks from all of us at NFFR to all writers who submitted to this year’s flash fiction contest. The quality was exceptional. Keep at it, writers and artists. The world needs you.

Gallows Pole by Kathy Hoyle

In the dead of summer, while the whiptails hide in sagebrush shadows, and everything blisters in the amber heat and there ain’t nothin but buzzards hummin for miles around, a hanged man dances on a gallows pole.

Carry On by Lucinda Kempe

Once there was a man who loved his donkey, but his donkey didn’t love him back. The donkey loved an eggshell, but the eggshell didn’t love it back.

The Subtle Light by Hetty Mosforth

Word of mouth gets him the job and gets him past the gatehouse. He tramps towards the house like a stray dog, turrets and crenelations coming into focus.

On the Morning Dance Floor by Alex Juffer

Jakey, face pressed to the window and eyes cupped into makeshift binoculars, could see Mrs. Claddagh sitting perched on her couch, speaking to herself.

Pet Shop Boys by Tim Craig

Dayne’s on-off-off-on stepdad, Kel, says stay away from that new pet shop.