New Flash Fiction Review

26/07/2026

Our submission window is still open for a few more days!! Don't forget to submit your story in response to one of the three photos by NFFR editor Louella Lester. We're awaiting your words.

14/07/2026

Our Ekphrastic Challenge opens tomorrow. Submit your stories inspired by one of the three photos by Louella Lester! And if you need any further inspiration, check out these stories--all placed on this year's Wigleaf longlist.

Ashleigh Adams for Issue 38's "Thursdays smell like you" https://newflashfiction.com/thursdays-smell-like-you-by-ashleigh-adams/

Kate Axeford for Issue 37's "The Truths Behind a Pumpjack Dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991"
https://newflashfiction.com/the-truths-behind-a-pumpjack/

Jack Barrie for Issue 36's "S**t Brick"
https://newflashfiction.com/sh*t-brick/

Kat Gonso for Issue 36's "Love Spell"
https://newflashfiction.com/love-spell/

Kara Oakleaf for her winning story in issue 39, "Body as a Single-Family Home"
https://newflashfiction.com/body-as-a-single-family-home/

Chris Scott for issue 36's "I Don't Know What Wind Is"
https://newflashfiction.com/i-dont-know-what-wind-is/

Kathryn Silver-Hajo for Issue 39's "My Brother the Salmon"
https://newflashfiction.com/my-brother-the-salmon/

Rowan Tate for Issue 37's "False Notes and Other Fragrances"
https://newflashfiction.com/false-notes-and-other-fragrances-by-rowan-tate/

They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.

26/06/2026

Exciting news for the flash world and of interest to NFFR readers and writers. Ellipsis Zine has returned with an online presence. Details here. Thank you EZ!!!
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com/collections/flash-fiction

09/06/2026

Flash-Writers, for NFFR #42, we have an ekphrastic challenge. Please submit one story that is inspired by one of the following three photographs by NFFR fiction and photography editor Louella Lester.

We’ll be accepting submissions from July 15, 2026, through July 31, 2026.

GUIDELINES
• Please note that all of our readings are anonymous, so please do not have any author information in your document, including as the file name, or we will have to reject it in fairness to the other writers.

• We invite you to submit one flash.

• The maximum word count is 500 words.

• We don’t accept previously published material.

• Submissions only via Submittable.

• Simultaneous submits are cool, just do us the courtesy to withdraw your work if needed.
Include a cover letter that contains an originality pledge in your letter that affirms that your work is your own and that AI was not used in its creation. Also, please provide a brief bio.

As editors always say, read the magazine for a sense of what we like. We value your trust in sending us your work.

Happy writing! And we're looking forward to reading your flash fictions inspired by the photographs.

https://newflashfiction.com/submit/

01/06/2026

NFFR #41 is live now. Stay tuned for news on our next call. The issue also features a q and a with this issue's amazing authors.
The issue: https://newflashfiction.com/issue-41/
And here's the q and a, also out today:
https://newflashfiction.com/weaving-hope/
#41 includes work by Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O’Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams.

Featuring new flash fiction from Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O'Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams.

29/04/2026

Check out our review of Nathan Leslie's latest:

Nathan Leslie's latest novel, Van Boyle, traces the descent and ascent of a professional baseball player. Van is living rough, struggling and ill. Beginning here, at age 69. the novel proceeds backwards through the years of his life.