And we're open! Send us your bold, imaginative, weird, wonderful stories - we are here for them. Just a reminder: 500 words max Free to enter We read anonymously Deadline 15 Jan

The long hallways of my arms, where sometimes, I swear I can feel their footsteps, where I look down and expect to see the skin rise up, something pushing against me from the inside." Brilliant unforgettable winning [email protected] @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/body-as-a-si...

We will be open for submissions 1 to 15 Jan. For inspiration, read our winning stories from last issue by @karaoakleaf.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @belindarowe.bsky.social @jaimegill.bsky.social @theodora.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/issue-39/

“I asked Dad once, What goes on in Olive’s head? He said, Believe whatever thing seems nicest.” leigh ann ruggiero’s “iron shoes” in @nffr.bsky.social 🤍 newflashfiction.com/iron-shoes/

Thanks to all the writers who entered our 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize. We have enjoyed reading your work and are assembling a longlist to send to our judge for this competition, @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social. Best of luck! newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

Still open for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize - deadline 15 Oct so 2 weeks to polish and shine! Loving the entries so far 😍 500 words Winner $250 Two runners-up $100 each Entry fee $10 We read anonymously Check out the interview with judge @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and good luck!

Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991" Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction newflashfiction.com/and-the-best...

Writers - enter the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize! Max 500 words Fee $10 Closes 15 Oct Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social "The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.” newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

Writers - enter the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize! Max 500 words Fee $10 Closes 15 Oct Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social "The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.” newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

New Flash Fiction Review Prize @nffr.bsky.social (Fiction; pays) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

We're opening subs for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize on 15 Sept! Read what judge Graham Faulkner wants: "Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers. The ability to create a mood, an intimacy, a connection." newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

Love this new flash fiction piece from Andrew Graham Martin! newflashfiction.com/dorothy-by-a...

"Although he was nothing like the Leaders of Men, he’d changed in many ways and she no longer spoke to him with candour or humour." I really love how @sagreene1.bsky.social put this brilliant story together! In the always wonderful @nffr.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"You are at a concert. The man with the razor-honey voice knows your fire. He’s been singing about it for decades." Wow! This extraordinary piece of writing by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 💙💙💙 newflashfiction.com/i-know-somed...

"The lesson is this—your fire will reduce everything to blackest soot, and you will be left alone. So, you give the boy a feather-light, tinkling laugh, and watch his world turn black." This story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social is so beautiful and wonderfully alive.

"[This story is based on] the aftermath of my father-in-law’s death. Though the rituals were performed for thirteen days, the tenth day was very emotional. That was when we said a final good-bye to the departed soul. That night my mother-in-law was made to sleep alone." Vijayalakshmi Sridhar #NFFR

"I have a very strange brain that associates everything back to numbers. Numbers are immensely soothing to me as a person who grew up with a bewildering sensory, emotional and interpersonal world. Numbers never trip you up, they never do anything unexpected." @pleomorphic2.bsky.social #NFFR

"A few months ago my toddler pointed to her closet and told us there were ghosts in there. When you’re a new parent, you spend an inordinate amount of time trying to decode your child's statements. With this story, I tried my best to cast this fleeting moment in plaster." Andrew Martin #NFFR

Don't miss this! Beyond their marvellous stories, our 10th anniversary issue contributors weigh in on their inspirations, mentors, writing in anxious times and what to make of themes. newflashfiction.com/on-mentors-w...

"For flash fiction, there’s a messy, resonant moment that usually comes to mind as inspiration. With such a tight word count, the tension has to be created from the first sentence, sustained through the slice of story, and end with an ambiguity that isn’t too frustrating." Elana Lavine #NFFR

"In the US there have been attempts to censor everything, including the weather, and I was looking at the website for NOAA, one of the federal agencies under attack, and came across a list of meteorological terms, and that gave me the shape for the final story." @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #NFFR

"Despite my difficulty with numbers, I find them comforting. My first son was born early and had to gain weight to catch up. Recently, I found the log of times I’d fed him and how much he’d had. The numbers would just float away if I didn’t write them down immediately." Rebecca Klassen #NFFR

"The origin of 'Lights out at Ten' is a documentary about long-term mental health patients. While some were fully institutionalised, others talked reflectively about their old lives and seemed to be holding on to a sense of self. I thought that was an interesting headspace." Neil James #NFFR

"Writing is a form of resistance. It might not feel like what you’re writing is important in the face of all that’s happening in the world, but always remember there’s a reason fascists burn and ban books. Words are powerful." @sagreene1.bsky.social #NFFR

"Writing is engagement with the things and people that anxiety yearns for you to turn away from. I’m the last person to give advice about writing, but to write during anxious times is, paraphrasing Didion, to tell the stories we need in order to live." @mitchellgauvin.bsky.social #NFFR

"If your cup is feeling empty, find something that fuels your creative soul. Read everything you can get your hands on. Spend time with people you love. Writing will always be there waiting for you when you’re ready to come back to it." Great advice from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social #NFFR

Don't miss this! Beyond their marvellous stories, our 10th anniversary issue contributors weigh in on their inspirations, mentors, writing in anxious times and what to make of themes. newflashfiction.com/on-mentors-w...

Thanks to the editors at @nffr.bsky.social for publishing my weather story, thanks to @louellalester.bsky.social for the cloud photo, and thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for sharing it! 💙

‘…because we were just friends, good friends who made out sometimes on Thursdays after happy hour when I was too buzzed to drive.’ Gorgeous details in this new flash from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 🥃 newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...

‘…his heart was as heavy as his scrotum…’ This new story from @sagreene1.bsky.social is, quite literally, the bollocks. Read it in the 10th anniversary issue of @nffr.bsky.social! 🪡 newflashfiction.com/the-tenth-te...

We are delighted to share our anniversary issue with you. 10 years 🥳 🎉 Featuring stories by: Ashleigh Adams Mitchell Gauvin S.A. Greene Neil James Rebecca Klassen Kathryn Kulpa Elana Lavine Andrew Graham Martin Gregory Meece Sumitra Singam Vijayalakshmi Sridhar newflashfiction.com/issue-38/

‘The band plays a song about an untouched girl who shatters like glass because a man taught her everything’ … stunning story from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in today’s @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/i-know-somed...

Just when I thought I couldn’t love @sagreene1.bsky.social more. 'When a third testicle dropped, he asked her to enlarge his trousers so he could house everything more comfortably and she said…’ The Tenth Testicle in @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/the-tenth-te...

Wow! Another stunner from @sagreene1.bsky.social in the 10th Anniversary @nffr.bsky.social 🍇

And Happy Tenth Birthday @nffr.bsky.social !! Thanks for your amazing support of the flash community 🧡🧡🧡

Delighted that my story The Tenth Testicle has dropped today in the Tenth Anniversary issue of @nffr.bsky.social… newflashfiction.com/the-tenth-te...

New flash fiction from me coming in September! 👀 Keep your eyes on the New Flash Fiction Review (@nffr.bsky.social)‬.

I am absolutely delighted that my flash fiction story, The Tenth Testicle, will be published in the 10th anniversary issue of New Flash Fiction Review on September 1. Thank you so much, @nffr.bsky.social team!

Big ❤️❤️to NFFR for reading and posting. I enjoyed my days editing there so much!

A great interview with @alkratz.bsky.social - I recommend especially for those coming to my @flashficfestuk.bsky.social workshop on publishing a collection - interesting insights here on self publishing. And the book looks cool too!

Love this interview between two past editors of #NFFR - @theburninghearth.bsky.social & @alkratz.bsky.social Al has a new book out, T is for Train. "It’s part travel writing, part memoir, part writing craft, part we don’t know what to call it." Sounds an ideal mix! All the best, Al and Connie 👋🏼

You know how some McSweeny's and Onion pieces front-load their goodness in the headline, while others deliver in the body? This one *really* delivers in the body.

Looking for some summer/winter reading? 😎 ❄️ Check out our mini-reviews: Novelette "Wild Plums" @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Collections "The Rope Artist" by @lorettec.bsky.social & "Sweet Nothings Are a Diary if You Know How to Read Them" by @keithjpowell.com newflashfiction.com/brief-review...

Day 12 @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge Katerina Kishchynska, trans. Alice Chester “Grandma falls into theatrical suffering, moans, strokes Riding Hood’s hand, and begs her not to leave her while she’s so ill and old and feral. “ duty, guilt 🔥🔥🔥 newflashfiction.com/katerina-kis...

Four days to go before we close subs. Some great twists on the theme of 10 so far. See what you can cook up this weekend and send it our way! Be bold 🌟 Be unique 😮 Give us your beautiful words 👌🏼 Up to 500 words Theme of 10 Closes 15 July midnight BST Sim subs ok

Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for running the #ArchiveChallenge - it's been fun seeing old stories shared with new audiences! Special shout out to @adelegallogly.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @michellefb.bsky.social @christinaltudor.bsky.social @kimmurdock.bsky.social for your shares ❤️

Agree with every single word of this excellent review by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social! Cold Toast is a stunning debut collection - Bravo @kazbarwrites.bsky.social! Here's to silver platform boots🍾

Day 14 @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge THE BIG FINALE!!! Wrapping up the challenge at @nffr.bsky.social with Elisabeth Ingram Wallace. I love this deliciously dark story written in fragments & how perfectly the form suits the subject matter. newflashfiction.com/special-feat...

Next up in our Summer/Winter #reading suggestions: COLD TOAST by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social published by Dahlia Books. Read what our Contributing Editor @nomad-sw18.bsky.social has to say. Brief Reviews: Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris | New Flash Fiction Review newflashfiction.com/coldtoast/

“I cannot unravel before you.” Oh, this wrenching stunner by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social.❤️💔