We are thrilled to announce our short list for the winter Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2024.
Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and who will be awarded publication in our next anthology and a workshop with The Flash Cabin.
If your story is listed, please do not identify which story belongs to you, as the judges are hard at work making their decisions.
SHORT LISTED STORIES
- Before the wind blows it all away
- A butterfly on your neck
- A series of questions
- after graduation lady macbeth goes for a job interview
- As the deer watched
- Baptism
- Enzo Zanetti
- Eomma, where are we going?
- Footfalls echo
- Hauntings
- Honey
- How simple the end could be
- 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 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
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.
Are you looking to transform your writing practice this summer?
27 July – 2 August | 7.30pm – 8.30pm
Transform your writing habit and write a flash fiction story every day for a week with Author and Director of the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, Freya Morris. We will be focusing on creating first drafts for the upcoming summer competition.
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 