It is with great pleasure that we announce the winning and highly commended stories of this year's National Flash Fiction Day micro fiction competition!
These ten stories can now be read at 2020 Microfiction Results and they will be published in the forthcoming 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, which will be out in time for National Flash Fiction Day on 6 June 2020.
Congratulations to our winning stories and their authors:
First Place Winner:
- 'When Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon' by Sara Hills
Second Place Winner:
- 'The Art Gallery Attendant Nine Months After Divorce' by Stephanie Hutton
Third Place Winners:
- 'This Body Will Become A Corpse' by Donna L Greenwood
- 'Nantucket News' by Marissa Hoffmann
Congratulations to our highly commended stories and their authors:
- 'Jimmy Stewart’s Prayer' by Lynda Cowles
- 'Tips for a Successful Whale Watch' by Rachael Dunlop
- 'Three Chords and the Truth' by Tracy Fells
- 'Craving' by Liv Norman
- 'Bogged-Down Sister' by Paul O'Brien
- 'Home Fires' by Alison Woodhouse
Thank you again to our four judges. Their job this year was extremely difficult, requiring extra rounds of voting to reach our final ten. In the end, they were unable to separate the two stories vying for third place and we felt the fairest thing would be to award two third place prizes.
Congratulations again to all our prize-winning and highly commended authors, and to all those who were shortlisted. And, a big thank you to everyone who entered this year’s competition and trusted us with their stories.