New Flash Fiction Review

01/07/2025

https://newflashfiction.com/brief-reviews-of-new-or-newish-books/
We have a few flash recommendations for your summer reading. And submissions open now for New Flash Fiction Review! Our theme is 10 (to celebrate our tenth anniversary). Looking forward to reading your stories!

…in which NFFR suggests some summer reading for you by Patricia Q. Bidar, Lorette C. Luzajic, Keith J. Powell, and Robert Shapard, with hopefully more recommendations to follow (in the coming dog days).

17/06/2025

The theme for our next NFFR issue is 10. We'll be open for submissions July 1-15. Usual guidelines apply about word count, etc. We look forward to reading your creative interpretations of 10.

01/06/2025

NFFR Friends,
Our summer issue if New Flash Fiction Review is now live!

Fantastic new work by: Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Kate Axeford, Jenna Burns, Gary Fincke, Cynthia Gordon Kaye, Jenna Grieve, Sophie Hoss, Cheryl Markosky Jack Morris, Rowan Tate, Dilys Wyndham Thomas. Details for our next submission period will be posted in about a week. Thanks to all the amazing writers who sent their work for #37.
https://newflashfiction.com/issue-37/

We love these stories and hope you do too.
--NFFR

Featuring new work by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Kate Axeford, Jenna Burns, Gary Fincke, Cynthia Gordon Kaye, Jenna Grieve, Sophie Hoss, Cheryl Markosky, Jack Morris, Rowan Tate, and Dilys Wyndham Thomas.

22/05/2025

Congratulations to all the writers chosen for this year's Best Small Fictions anthology!

NFFR congratulates Christy Stillwell ("Prudence") and Judy Darley ("Blue-naped Parrots See More Than They Say"), whose work has been chosen!

Find their stories here--https://newflashfiction.com/prudence/ and
https://newflashfiction.com/blue-naped-parrots-see-more-than-they-say-by-judy-darley/

For a full list from the series: https://altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fictions

They put the shock collar on the boy and that was it for the nanny. First they put the collar on one another. They were professors in English and Philosophy, all of them smart people.

17/04/2025

Many thanks to all who have submitted work for consideration for our next issue of NFFR. We appreciate your trusting us with your words and are striving to send out replies within two weeks.

19/02/2025

Dear NFFR Readers, We hope you check out this interview by Cole Beauchamp with Claudia Monpere, winner of last fall's NFFR flash contest. It's truly an inspiring interview.
https://newflashfiction.com/claudia-monpere/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIiLGpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdmDkNeZkv_f3tgL0SzkpL5tgKqHWqpS-bL3cwpJaPNwIitoT2lQxtUmtA_aem_SAE98znS-qGz6w1bi9Gyng

Cole Beauchamp chats with Claudia Monpere, the winner of the 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize, about where she finds inspiration, the best apple for mental health, why she writes in her car instead of her office, owning anger and writing more grace and hope.

19/01/2025

Congratulations to Tim Craig and Guy Biederman, whose stories in last year's Animal Life issue were chosen for the Best Microfictions anthology. We're so excited for you!!

Issue 32: Animal Life features work by Lilith Acadia, Guy Biederman, Tim Craig, Judy Darley, Laura Grant, Brandon Haffner, Lucinda Kempe, Jay Kenny, Georgie Morvis, Alan Michael Parker, Vincent James Perrone, Catherine Roberts, Vimla Sriram, and Sidney Tilghman.

17/12/2024

Congratulations to this year's New Flash Fiction Review nominees to BSF, Best Microfiction, and Pushcart. Thanks to all of you and to all our readers and writers.

Congratulations from NFFR to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025, the Pushcart Prizes, and Best Microfiction 2025!

01/12/2024

Enjoy our new issue #35, featuring our 2024 NEW FLASH FICTION PRIZE winners and finalists! https://newflashfiction.com/issue35/?

Featuring Claudia Monpere, Erin Ruble, Christy Stillwell, Sara Cappell Thomason, Molly Foltyn, S.A. Greene, Beth Kanter, Kai-Lilly Karpman, and K. McGuirk

14/09/2024

We're happy to announce that the wonderful Nathan Leslie will be our 2024 NFFR flash contest judge this year! In case you aren't familiar with his work, here's an interview from a couple of years back at NFFR. There will be one winner (winning 250 dollars) and two honorable mentions (winning 100 dollars each). Our submission window will be open from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. As always we will strive to reply to writers who have submitted within about 2 weeks of our deadline. It's a fund-raiser. We're an all volunteer team, and ordinarily we don't ask for a contribution/fee--so this is how we are able to stay afloat (maintain our web-hosting, etc.). We are looking forward to reading your fabulous stories!

Nathan Leslie talks with Valerie Fox about his latest book, Invisible Hand, and shares insights into his writing and editing.

04/09/2024

Dear friends, our special collaborative issue is live! With stunning flash-collaborations you will not want to miss! An unforgettable issue! Hope you love it!

Issue 34 includes new collaborations by Cole Beauchamp and Sumitra Singam, Philippa Bowe and Karen Walker, Ele Brave and Iván Brave, Kate Faigen and Kyle Weik, Lucas Flatt and Travis Flatt, Rina Palumbo and Christine Fugate, Rachel Harbaugh and Sarah Hurd, and Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross.

04/09/2024

https://newflashfiction.com/issue-34/
Issue #34, collaborative works, is now available!

Stories by: Cole Beauchamp and Sumitra Singam, Philippa Bowe and Karen Walker, Ele Brave and Iván Brave, Kate Faigen and Kyle Weik, Lucas Flatt and Travis Flatt, Rina Palumbo and Christine Fugate, Rachel Harbaugh and Sarah Hurd, Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross
Thank you to everyone who submitted, as well. We hope you enjoy the stories as well as the process writing that the writers have contributed.

Issue 34 includes new collaborations by Cole Beauchamp and Sumitra Singam, Philippa Bowe and Karen Walker, Ele Brave and Iván Brave, Kate Faigen and Kyle Weik, Lucas Flatt and Travis Flatt, Rina Palumbo and Christine Fugate, Rachel Harbaugh and Sarah Hurd, and Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross.