Of these 58 stories, 40 of them will be sent to judge Peter Orner. He will choose 20 for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms Bad Boy A Corridor Full of Them Unfinished Equations Maybe in Moline Night Manager The Cloud...
Tara Stillions Whitehead is a multi-genre writer whose powerful prose explores the fine line between fiction and truth. She regularly writes about addiction, abuse, and the underbelly of Hollywood, using personal history to explore memory and...
1st Place: The circus without white horses or elephants by Fiona Lynch 2nd Place: Sheepskin by Hannah Zhang 3rd Place: Too Distracted to Function by Lannie Stabile Shortlist Natalie Abbott dm Armstrong Christine Aucoin Shannon Blake Roberta Clipper...
First Place: Raising Rabbits by F.E. Choe 2nd Place: Burn It All Down by Karen Jones 3rd Place: Casual Pinch, 1992 by Alice Kaltman Raising Rabbits by F.E. Choe Will These Elevator Doors Never Open by Robert Clementson Hope by Rebecca Donley...
Co-Editor of the New W. W. Norton Flash Fiction America Anthology The newest installment in W. W. Norton’s popular flash fiction anthology series, Flash Fiction America, will be released on February 14. Edited by James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and...
Raising Rabbits Will These Elevator Doors Never Open Hope Aquatic Mammal Anchorite A Strange, Silent Relief My husband said, keep baking bread Self-Solemnization Burn It All Down Casual Pinch, 1992 Monday Bath Cuckoo Drapes Coexistence A Lovely...
Raising Rabbits Will These Elevator Doors Never Open Regrets: About Shoes You Did Not Buy Hope Lost and Found Aquatic Mammal Anchorite A Strange, Silent Relief Before The Wave Gianni Appleseed My husband said, keep baking bread Self-Solemnization...
“There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this,” a line from W.H. Auden’s “Twelve Songs, VIII” came to mind when reading Sheila O’Connor’s Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions (Rose Metal Press, 2019), an elegant...
1st Place: Tiny Little Goat by Jasmine Sawers Admittedly, I am a sucker for a funny/sad story that succeeds. It’s a rare beast, as the line between comedy and tragedy is a treacherous one indeed. In “Tiny Little Goat”, one of the shorter stories on...
Attaboy LouisMother’s KeeperBeforeWhat Will We Do With All This GriefThe Good HoursShoreNo Rhyme Nor ReasonCastawaysA Middle Finger Flipped on a School BusHorse PoorFlight PathOut from Behind a RockMore Than an Acquired TasteBoyUndercurrentsAll...
BreadAttaboy LouisMother's KeeperBeforeViva PeachesJohnny and Janie Cross CountryWhat Will We Do With All This GriefHere, HereafterWhy We Will Always Love You, Vera KnightvilleBulletThe Good HoursShoreNo Rhyme Nor ReasonOnly Sky Above and BelowOne...
1st Place: It's Still There by Robert McBrearty This is a superb metafiction; a very short story about very short stories themselves, but a story in itself, too. ~Rumaan Alam 2nd Place: Fusion by Diane Kraynak This taut (and funny) story...