We are thrilled to announce our long list for the summer Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2023.
Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round. We saw a wonderful range of genres, topics and stories from all over the world, and it was hugely competitive. Many wonderful stories just missed the final list and for those we have permission to email – we will be letting you know!
If your story is listed, please do not identify which story belongs to you, as the judges are hard at work making their decisions.
LONG LISTED STORIES
- An Epidemic of Pink Clouds
- Betrayal
- Buds over blooms
- But After This Week Everything Will Calm Down
- Chiaros-cure-all
- Dad Says Nobody Wins On The Teddy Picker
- Dillon’s Door
- Family Circle
- Fifty Ways to Grieve your Mother
- Gardener’s delight
- Homeward
- How to survive a Hurricane
- How to Teach an Adult to Swim
- Humbug Shark
- If You Look At It Aslant, Maybe It Won’t Blind You
- In the shadow of Scarfell Pike
- It is a Far, Far Better Thing
- Last Man Standing
- Little Mouse
- Luck of the Irish
- Mother of Exiles
- Mr. Majestic
- My boyfriend almost overpays at a night market in KL
- My Father, Retired Physics Professor, Explains It All
- My son plays Minecraft and talks at me for forty minutes straight while I try to write something profound
- November 11th 1918
- Set in Stone
- She Turned Out Okay
- Solve the Problems that Fergus Denies He Caused
- Suffering for my art
- The Cashier
- The Costa Blues
- The Exchange
- The Landing
- The Prize
- The Road Sweeper
- The You Not You
- Two Weeks After Mum Leaves
- Where the Birds Fly
- Woman Driver
In the next few weeks, we will be announcing our shortlist, who will be awarded publication in our next anthology and a four-week workshop called Dust Off Those Drafts with The Flash Cabin. They will get four weeks of feedback exchange and story revision (includes 20 revision exercises & 20 study stories) with Anika Carpenter.
So watch this space!
Our next competition will be opening on the 1 November 2023. So if you don’t find yourself on this list, we hope you’ll try again in our next competition and keep crafting.
Ignite: 30 days of flash fiction course
Are you looking for a flash of inspiration this autumn? Do you want to get into a better writing habit but not get hung up on word counts?
It’s the season for cosy nights, glowing fires, warm soups, fairy lights, fireworks and NaNoWriMo. National Novel Month (NaNoWriMo) happens every year in November, and we are here to expand it into flash fiction and throw away the word count.
If you’re up for the challenge, then ignite your writing habit and write a flash fiction story every day (no word counts required), with Author and Director of the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, Freya Morris, and Marie Gethins, award-winning writer and editor of the Irish flash ezine, Splonk. For less than the average coffee cost per session, we’ll get you writing again and enjoying it.
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