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Recent authors incl: Stuart Dybek, Lydia Davis, Steve Almond, Gary Lutz, Pamela Painter, Bobbie Ann We are living in the present day.

Founder Editor/Consulting Editor: Meg Pokrass
Managing Editor: Valerie Fox
Senior Editor/Special Features/Social Media: Karen Jones
Senior Editor: Mary Thompson
Al Kratz: Consulting Editor
Technical Editor: Keith J. Powell

New Flash Fiction Review was founded in 2014 by Meg Pokrass. An online magazine originally devoted to flash fiction, we have also published interviews with notable writers, pro

se poetry, and creative nonfiction. We’re proud to have NFFR stories selected for awards anthologies such as the Wigleaf Top 50 and the Best Small Fictions anthology. It’s a joy each year to make nominations and see the authors we champion celebrated. At New Flash Fiction Review, we appreciate quality and innovation. If we had to pick a previous favorite decade, it had better be pretty decadent (or at least fun) and possibly Dada. We want to read your smart, funny, mind-blowing, tragic, and unforgettable words. To further get a flavor for what we like, please read our current issue, read founding editor Meg Pokrass’s work, read the Wigleaf Top 50, SmokeLong, The Café Irreal, Cheap Pop, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and so many more. Read our editors’ bios, wherein they mention more about the kind of work they enjoy.

11/10/2025

New Flash Fiction Review is reading for our annual contest issue now! Accepting subs through Oct. 15. The amazing Grant Faulkner is the final judge. Winner and two honorable mentions receive prizes. The fee helps us to stay afloat! And if you balk at that, do keep us in mind for next issue. We'll be back to no-fee submissions then. Don't forgot NOT to include your name on submission or file name. Complete guidelines link in comments.

13/09/2025

Our Annual Contest Opens Soon!

Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year's entries.

02/09/2025

Enjoy our 10th Anniversary Issue!

Our tenth anniversary issues features new work from Ashleigh Adams, Mitchell Gauvin, S.A. Greene, Neil James, Rebecca Klassen, Kathryn Kulpa, Elana Lavine, Andrew Graham Martin, Gregory Meece, Sumitra Singam, and Vijayalakshmi Sridhar.

01/09/2025

https://newflashfiction.com/on-mentors-writing-in-anxious-times-numbers-and-writing-to-themes/

Check out some inspirational interviews with NFFR #38 contributors Ashleigh Adams, Mitchell Gauvin, S.A. Greene, Neil James, Rebecca Klassen, Kathryn Kulpa, Elana Lavine, Andrew Graham Martin, Gregory Meece, Sumitra Singam, and Sridhar, Vijayalakshmi Sridha. Thanks to all of you for being a part of our latest issue (celebrating ten years of NFFR with the theme of 10).

Issue 38 contributors weigh in on mentorship, writing in anxious times, and what to make of themes.

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!

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Editor-in-Chief, Meg Pokrass, Senior Editor, Al Kratz, Steven John, Audra Kerr Brown Special Features Editor: Steven John Webmaster Claire Polders Authors we’ve published include Stuart Dybek, Steve Almond, Natalia Rachel Singer, Molly Giles, Gary Lutz, Pamela Painter, Chuck Rosenthal, Bobbie Ann Mason, Sheri Flick, Bruce Holland Rogers and Kim Chinquee. New Flash Fiction Review was founded in 2014 by author/editor Meg Pokrass. We are an online magazine, we publish 4 issues per year.