Long List: Flash Fiction 2025 Quarter 1

A Less Than Divine Comedy by Andrew Laurence

A Piteousness of Doves by Sue Dewey

A Recipe for a Breathless First Date by Taria Karillion

Additives, Preservatives and Fear by Nola Addison

Alan Alda and Other Things I Don’t Talk to My Husband About by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris

An Arrow Shaped Tattoo by Bethan Crymble

As Good as Rodents by Rebecca Klassen

Ascent – Descent by Sinead Amirak

Bog Man by Susan Bennett

But this is what real boys do by Cole Beauchamp

By the Book by Alan Kennedy

Camouflaging by Camsyn Clair

Castrating the Apple Orchard — by Antonia Chekhov by D. X. Lewis

Collapse by Andrew Drummond

Dawn Child by Tim Wardle

Die Rot Burn Grow by CT Allen

Empty by Emma Finlayson-Palmer

Green is for Heartbreak by Hannah Retallick

Hands by Peter Slater

Harvest by Anne Howkins

Hug by Clare Blake

I Search Her Eyes for Rivers by Hannah Retallick

Icebreaker by Rachael Yates

If Only Wendy by Jo Simmons

Ill Met by Moonlight by Karen Arnold

Inti by Ruth Edwardson

It’s All So Unexpected by Laura Besley

It’s Not the End of the World by Jaime Gill

Last Aunt Standing by David Higham

Like Audrey Hepburn by Dean Atkins

Make Me a Goddamn Star by Hayley Young

Mother, I didn’t even make it as a whore by Sally Curtis

Rising Tides, Pizza and Gum by Taria Karillion

Smoke Rings by Jeff Drummond

Somebody That I Used to Know by Alison Wassell

Something Sly by Rachael Dunlop

Stuff He Says I’ll Need This Weekend by Chris Cottom

Tethered by Ashleigh Adams

The Back Seat of My Car by Andrew Drummond

The Comfort of Unicorns and the Multiverse by Samantha Palmer

The Game Changer by Kelly Rees

Three Letters to Lee by Tony Oswick

When she meets a man in a bar, she pretends to be someone else by Sam Payne

You by Margaret Callaghan

Your Upstairs Oasis by Bethan Crymble