New Flash Fiction Review publishes four issues each year.

For Issue #39, NFFR will be featuring the winners of our annual flash fiction contest. Submissions for the contest issue will be open from September 15 to October 15, 2025. The expected release of #39 is December 1, 2025.

Our entry fee is $10. The winner of the contest will receive $250, and two runners-up will be awarded $100 each. All of the usual guidelines apply regarding word count limit (500 words). We are very devoted to reading anonymously, so be sure not to include your name on your document or in the name of your document.

This year’s judge (reader of finalists) will be Grant Faulkner. Faulkner (he/him) is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He has published three books on writing and two story collections. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton’s Flash Fiction America and New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, andThe Writer.

He serves on the National Writing Project’s Writer’s Council, LitNet’s Steering Committee, and Aspen Words’ Creative Council. He’s also the co-host of the podcast Write-minded, and publishes the weekly newsletter, Intimations: A Writer’s Discourse.

As editors always say, read the magazine for a sense of what we like. We value your trust in sending us your work. We’ll strive to send our replies within two weeks of the submission deadline. Here are our general guidelines:

• We invite you to submit one story.
• The maximum word count is 500 words.
• We don’t accept previously published material.
• Submissions only via Submittable.
• Simultaneous submits are cool, just do us the courtesy to withdraw it if needed.
• Please note all of our readings are anonymous, so please do not have any author information in your document, including as the file name, or we will have to reject it in fairness to the others and the principle of reading anonymously. 

As usual, include a cover letter including a brief bio. Also, include an originality pledge in your letter that affirms that your work is your own and that AI was not used in its creation.

And do read recent issues of NFFR to give you a sense of what we love.