Congratulations to our 2024 Award Nominees!

Huge congratulations to FlashFlood's 2024 nominees for the following awards.  We wish them well in the selection process!

 

Best of the Net

• 'As the Sugar Moon Rises' by Parker M. O'Neill
  
• 'Mild Surprise On A Family Holiday' by Frances Orrok 
• 'Mother/ Mother' by Kerry Byrne
  
• 'November, 1971' by Sudha Balagopal
  
• 'Small Mythologies from a Late Summer Garden' by Jenny Wong
  
• 'Supernova' by Raymond J. Brash 
• 'To Be Still' by Elena Zhang 
• 'We Live In Yellow' by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh
  

Best Microfiction

• 'Bug Facts' by Timothy Boudreau 
• 'Da Slippah' by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
  
• 'POV: You Are the Brown One at a Table Full of White Mental Health Workers' by Sumitra Singam 
• 'The Blue Anorak' by Lisa Williams
  
• 'This is a story about squirrels' by Shelley Roche-Jacques
  

Best Small Fictions

• 'Cumulonimbi' by Christine H. Chen 
• 'Dead Reckoning' by Marie Gethins
  
• 'One Does Not Simply Walk out of Prairie Village, Ohio' by Amorak Huey 
• 'Skulking' by Fiona J. Mackintosh
  
• 'What to Do if Gravity Lessens' by Bethany Jarmul
  

 Pushcart Prize

• 'Hindmilk' by Susan Holcomb  
• 'Neighborhood Port' by Leonard Kress 
• ‘Spinning’ by Kelli Short Borges
• 'Spit-Joined' by Tom Weller 
• 'The Reluctant Reader’s Guide to Charles Dickens' by Emily Devane 
• 'Weather' by Eliza Ying He
  

Congratulations to our 2023 Best Small Fictions Nominees!

We are delighted to nominate the following 2023 FlashFlood stories to the Best Small Fictions Anthology:

• '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 

Congratulations to our nominated authors, and best of luck!

Congratulations to our 2023 Best Microfictions Nominees!

 

We are delighted to nominate the following 2023 FlashFlood stories to the Best Microfictions Anthology:

• '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
  

Congratulations to our nominated authors!

Congratulations to our 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees!

We are delighted to nominate the following FlashFlood stories to the 2023 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

Congratulations to our nominated authors!

Congratulations to our Best Small Fiction Winner, Fiona J. Mackintosh!

Huge congratulations to Fiona J. Mackintosh whose FlashFlood piece 'Flight Path' was selected for Best Small Fictions 2023, to be published by Alternating Current Press!  We're looking forward to reading 'Flight Path' in its new home later this year.

You can read more of our nominated pieces from past years on our Nominations and Awards page, and of course, check back at midnight tonight -- our first Flood story goes live at 00:01 on Saturday, 24 June!

FlashFloods 2022 Best Small Fictions Nominations

 We are thrilled to announce our 2022 Best Small Fictions nominations:

 

• 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
  

Best of luck to all our nominees!

FlashFlood's 2022 Best Microfictions Nominations

We are pleased to announce FlashFlood's 2022 Best Microfictions Nominations.  

• 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 luck to our 2022 nominees!

FlashFlood's 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominations

We are delighted to announce FlashFlood's 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominations:

 

• 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

 

Congratulations to our 2022 nominees!

FlashFlood's 2022 Best of the Net Nominations

We love every piece that we publish, but sadly can only nominate eight for the Best of the Net Awards -- two in the prose category and six that can be read as prose poems in the poetry category.  We wish all our nominees the best of luck in the next round of Best of the Net.

Without further ado, congratulations to our 2022 nominations for the Best of the Net awards: 

• '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