Long List: Flash Fiction 2026 Quarter 1

A Flash of Surrealism by Stephen Vincent Partridge

A fully formed being by Katja Sass

A Game of Go by Ben Daggers

According to this morning’s horoscope by Iona Winter

Are We Nearly There Yet? by Alison Wassell

Awaiting Recovery by Tracy Fells

Buttercups and Bayonets by Jane Ricot

Dadaji’s Bucket List by Taria Karillion

Disappointment by Caroline van der Mescht

Emily and Francis by Gayle Beveridge

Family Flowers Only by Cath Staincliffe

Feeding Upon My Face by Damhnait Monaghan

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

Last Carriage by Vivien Brown

Lessons in Time by Jamie D Stacey

Lessons My Mother Taught Me Behind St. Luke’s Church by Ben Daggers

My favourite Possibility by Ella Ashby

My Future Was Your Beer Mat by Tracey-anne Plater

Nothing by Harry Posner

Reds Bar by David Goodland

Soap Box Hummingbirds by Nola Bloy

Spike Night by Emily Hill

Still Pose by BD Watson

That cannibal beat by Roger Vickery

The Accident by Jaime Gill

The Archive of Breath by Rajendra Prasad Gupta

The Beautiful Ones by Jaime Gill

The Broth by David I. Hughes

The Cat Face Plate by Tracey-anne Plater

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 Receipt by Eleanor Garcia

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

The Wyerd Legend of Saint Abbs by Michael Hannam

Theatre by Carol A Stone

This Shark-Infested River by Debbi Voisey

Tsantsas by Jonathan Buckmaster

Unconditional by Gail Warrick Cox

When Cupid Calls in a Cold Snap by D. X. Lewis

Where Is Adam? by Melissa Jornd

World’s Okayest Dad by Renwick McConaghy

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