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.
The End of Mammals by Erin Ruble
It began with the pigs. As one factory farm after another succumbed, animal rights activists proclaimed it proof of the system’s failure.
Prudence by Christy Stillwell
They put the shock collar on the boy and that was it for the nanny. First they put the collar on one another. They were professors in English and Philosophy, all of them smart people.