We are thrilled to announce our short list for the winter Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025.
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
- … But Why Now?
- 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
- Love Island
- Magnetic porridge
- Mrs Mabli and the Weather Committee
- Mumsnet 1537
- No Obits
- Prodigal of the teardrop isle
- Rotting Water
- The Disappeared
- The Quiet Migration
- The river he wise
- The Skin We Borrow
- There Will Be Time
- To the Poo-Poo Man Who Made My Tiger Costume
- Unbirthday
- Valedictorian
- Wet Brain
- Worker’s Anthem
We will be in touch with the authors of each over the next few days and we will be announcing our finalists and winners in a few weeks. 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.
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 