Congratulations to our 2019 award nominees!

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.

We have chosen a selection of stories from those first published at Flash Flood in celebration of National Flash Fiction Day 2019.

Congratulations and good luck to our 2019 award nominees!



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