New Flash Fiction Review publishes four issues each year.

Many thanks from all of us at NFFR to everyone who submitted to our 2025 flash contest. Gratitude also to this year’s judge, Grant Faulkner.

We’ll be accepting submissions for our next issue, NFFR #40, from December 15, 2025 through January 15th, 2026.

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 guidelines for #40:

• 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 your work 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.