Short List: Flash Fiction 2026 Quarter 1

A fully formed being by Katja Sass

Are We Nearly There Yet? by Alison Wassell

Family Flowers Only by Cath Staincliffe

Finding Your Inner You by Melissa Jornd

Harvest by Anne Howkins

He Said, She Said by Ben Daggers

Is It Pronounced Shrewsbury or Shrewsbury? by Hannah Retallick

My Future Was Your Beer Mat by Tracey-anne Plater

Reds Bar by David Goodland

Spike Night by Emily Hill

The Accident by Jaime Gill

The Diary of Mia Powell [As Read by an Omniscient Narrator] by Ben Daggers

The fear of falling by Jamie D Stacey

The Last Page by Gillian Brown

The life cycle of coral by Jamie D Stacey

The Sacrificial Fish of Saturday Afternoon by Liz Gwinnell

The Weight of a Hummingbird by Suraj Gupta

The Weight of Unfinished Stitches by Nisha Kumari

This Shark-Infested River by Debbi Voisey

Unconditional by Gail Warrick Cox

Where Is Adam? by Melissa Jornd

You Left, But We’re I’m It’s Fine by Ya Lan Chang