And the results are in!
Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title):
- First Prize: ‘A Civil War’ by Sarah Freligh
- Second Prize: ‘Too Late for Lullabies’ by Martha Lane
- Third Prize: ‘The Last Summer’ by Dawn Miller
- Highly Commended: ‘Bible Outtake #1: “A Rabies Scare in West Virginia Turns Out to Be Raccoons Drunk on Fermented Crab Apples”’ by Tracie Renee
- Highly Commended: ‘Bubbles’ by Sarah Oakes
- Highly Commended: ‘Caleb’ by Ciel Stynes
- Highly Commended: ‘Lunch Lady’ by Holly Brandon
- Highly Commended: ‘Us Minus You’ by Coleman Bigelow
- Highly Commended: ‘Why I Threw Up on the Whale Watching Tour’ by Elena Zhang
- Highly Commended: ‘9,125 Days of Sambhar, Because Like Biryani, Sambhar is Also an Emotion’ by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
The winning and highly commended stories can be read here and will appear in the 2025 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.
Thank you again to our four judges: Sudha Balagopal, Rebecca Field, James Montgomery and Sherry Morris.
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.