Editor's Note
Judge Nuala O’Connor’s results have come in. The stories were read blind, so it is very exciting to unveil the names of the winners, finalists and honourable mentions! Thank you to everyone who entered and congratulation to all of the authors listed below! We will be publishing the winning 3 stories here at New Flash Fiction Review in early 2019.
Special Issue: Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction 2020
Results from Judge, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Winner: Pursed by Amina Gautier
First Runner Up: Tiers of Joy by Cyn Nooney
Second Runner Up: My Grandmother in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1943, When They Were Building an Atomic Bomb by Emily Kiernan
Third Runner Up: The Birds of Joy by Luke Rolfes
Finalists
Everything Slippery and Gone’ by Melissa Bowers
Ivan’s Hamster by Andrew Stancek
Muscle Memory by Edith Johnson
The Thing the Dog Daisies Could Have Told You by Morning by Niamh McCabe
Honorable Mention
Babushka by Kristen Loesch
Deluge by Bob Thurber
Diamond Pumps by Emily Woodworth
And During the Evening, Some Things of No Little Significance Became Apparent by Jason Jackson
Herbert by Ezgi Üstündağ
Never Again by Kate Maxwell
The Scent of Roses by Vineetha Mokkil