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On Recent Writing and New Projects and Reading, Reading, Reading—with Patricia Q. Bidar
Patricia Q. Bidar is a Los Angeles native whose first publication came at age 58. Her short works have appeared in Waxwing, Wigleaf, Smokelong Quarterly, The Pinch, Atticus Review, and Moon City, and have been widely anthologized, including in Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton), Best Small Fictions 2023 and 2024 (Alternating Current), and Best Microfiction 2023 (Pelekinesis Press).
Some Anthology Nominations from NFFR
Congratulations to this year’s Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net nominees!
Issue 42: Stories Inspired by Photographs
Featuring new flash fiction from Anika Carpenter, Karen Crawford, S.A. Greene, Jessica Klimesh, Kathryn Kulpa, Ali McLafferty, Blake Pierpoint, Sophie Purchase, and Brent Waggoner.
Issue 41
Featuring new flash fiction from Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O’Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams.
Weaving Hope into Writing
Issue 41 contributors Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O’Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams discuss summer reading tips and notes on process.
Brief Reviews: Van Boyle by Nathan Leslie
Nathan Leslie’s latest novel, Van Boyle, traces the descent and ascent of a professional baseball player. Van is living rough, struggling and ill. Beginning here, at age 69. the novel proceeds backwards through the years of his life.
Issue 40
Featuring new work by Nadia Born, Bethany Bruno, Sherry Duggal, Rachel Hollis, Tess Kelly, Rosaleen Lynch, Patience Mackarness, Mandira Pattnaik, Tarmo Rajasaari, and Rob Walton.
Congratulations to NFFR’s 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees!
Congratulations to this year’s Best Small Fictions nominees!
On Collaboration and Writing About Love—with Grant Faulkner
Grant Faulkner speaks with Valerie Fox about Something Out There In the Distance, his new collaborative book with photographer Gail Butensky.
NFFR’s 2026 Best Microfiction Nominations
Congratulations to this year’s Best Microfiction nominees!
Issue 39: 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize
Featuring new work by Belinda Rowe, Jaime Gill, Emily Rinkema, Theodora Sutcliffe, Kara Oakleaf, Leigh Ann Ruggiero, Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Brigid M. Hughes, and Jess Richards
Announcing the 2025 NFFR Prize Longlist
Congratulations to all authors represented on the 2025 NFFR Prize longlist.
And the Best of the Net Nominees are…
Congratulations to this year’s Best of the Net nominees!
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.