We are thrilled to announce our short 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.
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
- According to Wikipedia, Most Damselflies Emerge in Cool, Daytime Conditions
- Amusement park dad
- An unlikely awakening
- Choose your animal
- Corvids
- Growing pains
- Here is a slide
- His bones
- Hold
- 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
- She writes herself a different life
- The experience machine
- The Extemporal Haberdashery
- The glory
- The life cycle of frogs
- 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
Those on the short list will be awarded publication in our next anthology and a workshop with The Flash Cabin.
We will be announcing the winners in a few week’s time, so watch this space!
Join us! 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 (time to be confirmed), 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 