Nominations and Awards

We love everything we publish at Flash Flood but can only put forward a selection of the work for awards and publications such as Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions and Best of the Net. Here is a list of our annual nominations.

2023 Nominations

Huge congratulations to Jude Higgins and Jen Wyrauch Edson whose respective flashes 'Spinning' and 'The No Longer Girls (A Song Unsung)' were chosen for inclusion in the Best Microfiction 2024 anthology.

Best Small Fictions

• 'I Once Swallowed a Rollercoaster' by Katie Holloway
• 'Tell the Kardashians It Happened Like This' by Roberta Beary
  
• 'Telling' by Lu Han 
• 'Trashed' by James Montgomery 
  
• 'Red Books' by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
  

Best Microfictions

• 'A CV of Jobs That Were, and Jobs That Could Have Been' by Slawka G. Scarso
  
• 'The No Longer Girls (A Song Unsung)' by Jen Wyrauch Edson
  
• 'The Scream' by Joshua Jones Lofflin
  
• 'Spinning' by Jude Higgins
  
• 'The 24-hour potato service' by Shelley Roche-Jacques

Pushcart Prize

• 'The Doll House' by Nathan Alling Long
• 'How I Got Here' by Sarah Freligh
• 'Little Spoon' by Tara Campbell
• 'Red Books' by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
• 'Trashed' by James Montgomery
• 'Youth of America' by Bethany Jarmul

2022 Nominations

Huge congratulations to Fiona J. Mackintosh whose FlashFlood piece 'Flight Path' was selected for Best Small Fictions 2023, published by Alternating Current Press!

Best Microfictions

• Game by Catherine Deery 
• Lovers by Vincent Anioke 
• Moon’s Lament by Thad DeVassie  
• Our Mothers’ Jewellery by Sherri Turner  
• Souvenirs by Susie Aybar  
• Why Do Some Gals Get All the Breaks? by Sharon Boyle

Best of the Net

• 'Basketball Girls' by Lauren Voeltz
• 'During the Thaw' by Evan James Sheldon 
• 'The Chicken/Egg Index' by Audrey Niven
• 'The Clown Scanner' by Kati Bumbera
• 'The Flight of Swallows' by Sher Ting
• 'Soar' by Kim Steutermann Rogers 
  
• 'The Sound of Dust' by Slawka G. Scarso
• 'Syrinx' by Karen Gonzalez-Videla

Best Small Fictions

• A girl by Melissa Llanes Brownlee  
• Detached by Anika Carpenter  
• Flight Path by Fiona J. Mackintosh  
• me and the foxes battle it out along the railway line by Deborah Tomkins  
• When Walking Away Becomes Walking Toward by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh

Pushcart Prize

• Lovers by Vincent Anioke 
• Old-schooled by Steve Nelson  
• Perfect Stranger by Brooke Randel 
• Souvenirs by Susie Aybar  
• They Say that if You Put a Shell to Your Ear You Can Hear the Sea by Katie Holloway  
• They Say You Can Never Go Back But You Try by S A Greene  
  

 

2021 Nominations

Best Microfictions

• 'How to Change the Oil on the Car' by Kim Steutermann Rogers
• 'Weathering' by Sam Payne
• 'Drawing Dead on the Road to Athlone' by Fiona McKay
• 'No traffic noise, only silence' by Jennifer Hurley 
• 'The Shape of a Merman’s Shadow' by Melissa Saggerer
• 'Whiskers' by Timothy Boudreau
  

Best of the Net

• 'Full Body Eraser' by Kristen Loesch
• 'I Find The Bee Skin Hanging Behind The Bathroom Door' by Ali McGrane
• 'No Birds’ Nests in the Tree Next Door' by Rosaleen Lynch
• 'The Egg Cycle' by Michelle Christophorou
• 'They swarm at 46 degrees' by Nicola Godlieb
• 'You're Lookin' at Country' by April Bradley 
• 'Suspended Animation' by Rachel Swabey
• 'Transfiguration' by Chris Drew

Best Small Fictions

• 'Cow' by Natalie Warther
• 'Weathering' by Sam Payne 
• 'The Egg Cycle' by Michelle Christophorou
• 'I Find The Bee Skin Hanging Behind The Bathroom Door' by Ali McGrane 
• 'Full Body Eraser' by Kristen Loesch

Pushcart Prize

• 'A Pondering of Velocity When you’re too Scared to Move' by Tommy Dean
• 'Because the World Always Turns and People Always Forget' by Catherine Ogston 
• 'Cow' by Natalie Warther 
• 'Derek’s New Head' by S A Green 
• 'My Perfect Daughter' by Mileva Anastasiadou
• 'Our Lady of Perpetual Help' by Jan Elman Stout

 

 

2020 Nominations

Congratulations to Carrie Etter whose piece “Stephanie” was a finalist for Best of the Net 2020.

Congratulations to Vanessa Chan whose story 'Chalk' was spotlighted in Best Small Fictions 2021 and to Clodagh O’Brien whose story 'Your Mama's a Hippo' was included in the final selection of Best Small Fictions 2021.

Pushcart Prize 2020

• Programming Language by Gail Anderson
• Refashioning Another Clumsy Gift from My Mother Into Something I Really Want by Anika Carpenter
• Stephanie by Carrie Etter
• Homing by Jason Jackson
• The Lies We Tell by Hema Nataraju
• A Subtle Burn of Ginger by Jenny Wong

 

Best Microfictions 2020

• Barq's Famous Old Tyme Root Beer by Renee Agatep
• Crossed Path by Françoise Harvey
  
• Family by Veneese Ipler
• Magic Bullet by Bill Merklee
• The Anchor by Steven Moss
  
• Moon Watching by Regan Puckett

 

Best of the Net 2020

• Things That Fall by Cathy De'Freitas 
• Stephanie by Carrie Etter
• The Snake Derbies by Bill James  
• Dark Moves by Marie Gethins
• Flight by Janice Leagra  
• A Test by D. Brody Lipton
• Scatterlings by Taffi Nyawanza
• Jump-off Point by Tara Isabel Zambrano

 

Best Small Fictions 2020

• Chalk by Vanessa Chan
  
• Spinning by Noa Covo  
• Your Mama's a Hippo by Clodagh O'Brien 
• A Subtle Burn of Ginger by Jenny Wong 
• Pilot Episode by J.E. Yeadon
  

2019 Nominations

Congratulations to Beth Ann Spencer whose piece 'Exit Music' was published in Best Microfictions 2020.

 

Congratulations to Molia Dumbleton whose story 'What You Have Been Told' was included in the final selection of Best Small Fictions 2020.

Best Microfictions

• Alegria (Joy) by Bayveen OConnell 
• Exit Music by Beth Ann Spencer 
• Fist, Fly, Robot, Open by Nan Wigington 
• How to Sacrifice Your Life in the line of Duty and Still Go Uncommemorated on War Memorials by Jan Kaneen

Best of the Net

• The Last Surfers by Caroljean Gavin 
• Second Semester French Translation Test by Alison Theresa

Best Small Fictions

• The age of the dinosaurs by Leonora Desar 
• Fist, Fly, Robot, Open by Nan Wigington 
• Here is the church by Sara Hills
• The mystery of Bay 53 by Sharon Telfer 
• What You Have Been Told by Molia Dumbleton

Pushcart Prize

• Atropa Belladonna by Fiona J. Mackintosh 
• College, 1957 by Alison Wassell
• The mystery of Bay 53 by Sharon Telfer 
• Not Gone Yet by Rachael Dunlop
• A Trustworthy Receipt to Fade FRECKELLS, & Other Blemishes of the Skin, by a Lady of Quality. by Kathryn Kulpa 
• What the Grandparents teach about retirement by Anne Summerfield