The 2024 winter long-list

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We are thrilled to announce our long list for the winter Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2024.

Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round. As always, 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

  • Before the wind blows it all away
  • A butterfly on your neck
  • A great man
  • A series of questions 
  • after graduation lady macbeth goes for a job interview 
  • As the deer watched
  • Baptism 
  • Button eyes
  • Enzo Zanetti 
  • Eomma, where are we going? 
  • Footfalls echo
  • Hauntings
  • Honey
  • How simple the end could be
  • I am an island
  • In Johannesburg, there’s no power but our power. 
  • Jigsaw pieces 
  • Little Tooth
  • Numbers
  • My Stepdad is the Old Nokia Phone that Doesn’t Allow Pictures
  • Pareidolia, In Toast
  • The Phoenix
  • Reflections
  • Snow falling 
  • Sodium chloride: A user’s guide
  • The bluestone and the heather
  • The Caged Budgerigars
  • The farm in the valley
  • The view from up there
  • There is no before, there is only after
  • This Time 
  • Trespasses  
  • What a kerfuffle
  • When our sister have ulcer upset or something of that nature

In the next few weeks, we will be announcing our shortlist, who will be awarded publication in our next anthology and a workshop with The Flash Cabin.

So watch this space! 

Our next competition will be opening on the 1 June 2024. So if you don’t find yourself on this list, we hope you’ll try again in our next competition and keep crafting.