The 2025 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition will be judged by:
- Sudha Balagopal
- Rebecca Field
- James Montgomery
- Sherry Morris
Submissions are open from 1 December 2024 to 15 February 2025.
Sudha Balagopal is an Indian American writer whose fiction straddles continents and cultures, blending thoughts and ideas from the east and the west. Most recently, her novella in flash, Nose Ornaments, was published by Ad Hoc Fiction, UK. Her highly commended novella in flash, Things I Can’ t Tell Amma, was published by Ad Hoc Fiction in 2021. Nominated for several awards, her work has appeared in Best Microfiction, 2021, 2022 and Best Small Fictions, 2022, 2023, 2024. When she’s not writing, she teaches yoga.
Rebecca Field is a short fiction writer from Derbyshire, UK. Her work has appeared in several NFFD anthologies and she has twice been highly commended in the NFFD micro competition. She has also been published online by The Phare, Ghost Parachute, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, Milk Candy Review and Ellipsis Zine among others. Tweets at @RebeccaFwrites.
James Montgomery writes from Staffordshire in the UK. He has won the Pokrass Prize, Retreat West’s best micro fiction prize and a Flash Fiction Festival competition, placed second in New Zealand's international Micro Madness contest, and been highly commended in the Bath Flash Fiction Award and National Flash Fiction Day's micro competition. His stories have been published in various anthologies and literary magazines, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net. Find him at www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com.
Originally from Missouri, Sherry Morris (@Uksherka & @uksherka.bsky.social) writes prize-winning fiction from a farm in the Scottish Highlands where she pets cows, watches clouds and dabbles in photography. She presents an online monthly spoken-word radio show featuring short stories and flash on Inverness Hospital Radio, and received a 2025 Best of the Net nomination from Fictive Dream for her story ‘The Cabbage Tree’. Many of her stories stem from her Peace Corps experience in 1990s Ukraine. Read more of her work at www.uksherka.com.