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Get Ready for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize
Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year’s entries.
Issue 38
Our tenth anniversary issues features new work from Ashleigh Adams, Mitchell Gauvin, S.A. Greene, Neil James, Rebecca Klassen, Kathryn Kulpa, Elana Lavine, Andrew Graham Martin, Gregory Meece, Sumitra Singam, and Vijayalakshmi Sridhar.
On Mentors, Writing in Anxious Times, Numbers, and Writing to Themes
Issue 38 contributors weigh in on mentorship, writing in anxious times, and what to make of themes.
Brief Reviews: Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
It’s a surprise to find that Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’ stories were not conceived as a collection from the beginning, they are that cohesively tight and interwoven.
Brief Reviews of New or New(ish) Books
…in which NFFR suggests some summer reading for you by Patricia Q. Bidar, Lorette C. Luzajic, Keith J. Powell, and Robert Shapard, with hopefully more recommendations to follow (in the coming dog days).
Call for Submissions: 10
If you haven’t started your 10-themed story yet, there’s still time. This theme celebrates NFFR’s 10th Anniversary. We’ll be open for submissions from July 1-15. Here are some previous NFFR stories touching on numbers (or counting) that might inspire. In the following stories, you’ll notice a use of numbers relating to concepts in the stories, dates, ages, and more.
Issue 37
Featuring new work by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Kate Axeford, Jenna Burns, Gary Fincke, Cynthia Gordon Kaye, Jenna Grieve, Sophie Hoss, Cheryl Markosky, Jack Morris, Rowan Tate, and Dilys Wyndham Thomas.
Issue 36
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.
Owning Anger & Writing Grace: An Interview with Claudia Monpere
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!
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!
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.
Issue 35: 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize
Featuring Claudia Monpere, Erin Ruble, Christy Stillwell, Sara Cappell Thomason, Molly Foltyn, S.A. Greene, Beth Kanter, Kai-Lilly Karpman, and K. McGuirk.
NFFR 2024 Flash Fiction Contest Longlist
Many thanks to everyone who submitted work to this year’s contest. Congratulations to all authors represented on the longlist. Good luck to all. We’ll announce winner and two honorable mentions being selected now by Nathan Leslie, in our upcoming December issue.
Welcome Cole Beauchamp!
We are thrilled to welcome Cole Beauchamp to New Flash Fiction Review as a contributing editor!
Trust and Play: Notes on Collaborative Process from NFFR Contributors
New Flash Fiction Review asked this issue’s collaborators for their insights on working together. They responded enthusiastically with remarks on overall process, challenges, about their stories in this issue of NFFR, on achieving a collaborative voice, and more.
Issue 34
Issue 34 includes new collaborations by Cole Beauchamp and Sumitra Singam, Philippa Bowe and Karen Walker, Ela Brave and Iván Brave, Kate Faigen and Kyle Weik, Lucas Flatt and Travis Flatt, Rina Palumbo and Christine Fugate, Rachel Harbaugh and Sarah Hurd, and Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross.
Interview Without the Vampire: An Interview with Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman
Jeff Friedman and Meg Pokrass Discuss Collaboration, Improvisation, and Which Beatle/s They Sometimes Are.
Best Small Fictions & Best Microfictions: Woo-Hoo!
Congratulations from all of us here at NFFR to Shane Larkin, Fiona McKay, J W Goll, Daniel Addercouth, and Imogen Rae, whose stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfictions 2024!
The Publishing World & Art Galleries: An Interview with Shaun Levin
Valerie Fox interviews Shaun Levin on his novel, Mark, the publishing world, and spending time in art galleries.
Galaxies as Genres: Matt Kendrick Interviewed by Shane Larkin
Writer, editor, and teacher Matt Kendrick discusses telling the hard stories, his process (in depth), and the experimental nature of the flash form.