We are thrilled to announce our long list for the summer Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2024 in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries’ Kafka: Making of an Icon exhibition at the University of Oxford.
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. We will be in touch with those on the list.
LONG LISTED STORIES
- A face like no other
- A house we can both live in
- According to Wikipedia, Most Damselflies Emerge in Cool, Daytime Conditions
- Amusement park dad
- An unlikely awakening
- Besieged bodies
- Cafe terrace at night
- Choose your animal
- Corvids
- Cuckoos
- Drunk, he falls backward into the flow of time
- Ever westward
- Growing pains
- Here is a slide
- His bones
- Hold
- Home is where the heart used to be
- In bed with Tesla
- Inheritance
- It’s June in Kentucky, and Bob’s trucking through on I-65
- Kitchen conversations
- Light pressure
- Lost and found in Clapham
- More sky than anywhere
- Nebulated
- Northbound
- One hundred days of the Irishman
- Picasso was a dick
- Scatter Plot of Loss
- She writes herself a different life
- The experience machine
- The Extemporal Haberdashery
- The glory
- The indignity of old wright
- The life cycle of frogs
- The puppy
- The tube transforms
- The worst case scenario
- Three cornered hat
- Wanted: Pregnant woman seeks dunnock, parenting experience preferred
- What storms may come
- When the stork brought Eliza a rock instead of a baby
- Whispers of the Vaal
- Willie
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 2025. So if you don’t find yourself on this list, we hope you’ll try again in our next competition and keep crafting.
Words of Wonder day and anthology launch – 26 October | 11-4pm
Join us for the anthology launch! On 26 October, the Bodleian Libraries will hold a day event in Oxford called Words of Wonder. During the day, we will be celebrating the launch of the anthology with readings, prizes and more. There will also be hands-on activities in this celebration of the wonder of words: experiment with words through collage, black-out poetry, and hanging lines of literature; have a blind date with a book; create and recreate stories with collaborative writing and narrative games; and take a tour of Kafka: Making of an Icon and print your own themed keepsake.
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 
2 thoughts on “The 2024 summer long-list”