We are thrilled to announce our long list for the winter Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025.
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
- … But Why Now?
- A day in the life, Lydia
- A Poster of Three Cats
- A Sheer Drop of Three Thousand Feet
- Beneath the Judas Hill
- Diva
- Double Take
- Dugout
- First Date Tilt-a-Whirl
- Flesh + Bone
- Flowers
- For all the years I didn’t notice, something plinked in response
- Full Circle, Perfect Square
- Golden Ticket
- Grooves
- Houses that talk
- Love Island
- Lumberman, Woodsman
- Magnetic porridge
- Mrs Mabli and the Weather Committee
- Mumsnet 1537
- No Obits
- None of us have anything to hide
- Prodigal of the teardrop isle
- Protest
- Rotting Water
- Saltraire
- Teeth
- The Disappeared
- The old man
- The Quiet Migration
- The Reckoning
- The river he wise
- The Skin We Borrow
- The Watchers
- There Will Be Time
- To the Poo-Poo Man Who Made My Tiger Costume
- Unbirthday
- Valedictorian
- Wet Brain
- Windows
- Worker’s Anthem
In the next few weeks, we will be announcing our shortlist, who will be awarded publication in our next anthology.
So watch this space!
Our next competition will be opening on the 1 June 2026. So if you don’t find yourself on this list, we hope you’ll try again in our next competition and keep crafting.
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