After reading oodles of brilliant stories on the theme of FREEDOM, Karen Jones and Chris Drew have finalised their selections for the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the first-ever Editors' Choice Awards.
Below is the list of the 50 stories that will appear in this year's anthology, alongside the 2022 Microfiction Competition Winners. We will be contacting everyone officially via email, so you should hear from us soon. Congratulations to all the authors listed below!
Special congratulations to our two inaugural Editors' Choice Award Winners:
- Chris Drew chose Coins by Richard Barr
- Karen Jones chose Trout Prince by Rachel Gough
Thank you so much to everybody who submitted their stories for consideration for this year's anthology. It was an honour to read each and every piece. Thank you for sharing your work with us! If you didn't make the anthology this time, don't forget that there are still opportunities to join us in celebrating National Flash Fiction Day, including FlashFlood and The Write-In.
We hope that you will all join us for the launch of the anthology on National Flash Fiction Day later this year!
2022 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Line Up
- 29 Kumquats by Anne Summerfield
- A Day Out by Catherine Ogston
- A Parley at the Mouth of the Underworld by Nicole Ong
- A Sin to See Through Glass by Rosaleen Lynch
- All the Things You Know by Julia Smith
- Ancrene Wise by Cate Holness
- And We Lived Happily Ever After by Damhnait Monaghan
- Angel wings, boxed. As New by Jackie Morris
- Callisto by Angela Huskisson
- Coins by Richard Barr
- Come on Down by Amy Barnes
- Curriculum Vitae by Audrey Niven
- Don’t Look Back by Sherri Turner
- Down to Earth by Jude Higgins
- Dublin by Hannah Saal
- Free at Eighty by David Galef
- Freedom From and Freedom to by Edward Barnfield
- Freedom of Information by Jeanette Greaves
- Freedom of the Fells by Christine Sturt
- From the Rubble, 1945 by Emma Venables
- Good Luck Lenny by Sara Hills
- Herman’s Arrest by Linda Rowland-Buckley
- How to Hook a Heart by Judy Darley
- How to Make a Tote Bag and Heal Your Heart by Joan Taylor-Rowan
- Kite by Cathy Lennon
- Kolkata 1884 by Jonaki Ray
- Mine Was a Blessed Childhood by Marina Sofia
- My Love is Like a Fever etc. by Michela Esposito
- Neither yes nor no by Susy Churchill
- Our Sons Squirm as we Straighten Their Collars by Malina Douglas
- Packing Diamonds by Nancy Freund
- Peaches and Sour Apple by Rosie Garland
- Pursed Lips and Silences by S A Greene
- Radical Change by Hannah Smith
- Some Spark of Us by Peter Burns
- Temporal Dilation by Fay Brown
- The Butterfly Effect by Hannah Storm
- The Happy Baby by Cheryl Markosky
- The Innocence of Trees by Ruth Skrine
- The Leaving by Sarah Masters
- The Night Bus to Upstate by Roberta Beary
- The Rookery by Rachel Gough
- The visual merchandiser will Inspire with fresh takes on the hottest
- trends by Lucy Goldring
- Things the Adverts Said by Rebecca Field
- Three Lies by Annika Neukirch
- Too Close Too Low by Rachael Dunlop
- Trout Prince by Rachel Gough
- Untamed at Last by Gaynor Jones
- What We Did When We Knew It Was the End by Rachel Clarke
- X+Y=Something by Yasmina Din Madden