We are thrilled to announce our short-list for the special ’34: The Critical Raw Materials shaping our future’ themed Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2026.
Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and will be published in our next anthology. As always, we saw a wonderful range of genres, topics and stories from all over the world, and it was hugely competitive.
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
- 73 silly little worries which once hung over my head
- A night out with the squeaky people
- Antinomy dreams
- Audacity
- Borrowed light
- Breast Friends
- Charmed
- Cobalt
- Copper kingdom
- Cornflower postcard from auntie Emily
- Cumulus
- Dysprosium
- ‘Earth Mother’
- Faces
- Gallium 31
- Huey Indium
- Kintsugi
- Kokorioko and Kindness in Kono
- Lithium
- Man or Bear?
- Mine of information
- Nightlight for the Galaxy
- Parallel Lives: A Continental Divide
- Perfect lips
- Starcatcher
- Stephanie’s Side Hustle
- Temple to the sun god
- The Flesh the Iron Dragon Consumes
- The last touch
- The pit
- The Visit
- Things I Could Have Done After Spending Too Much Money on a White Jacket from Harvey Nichols
- Trouble with gladioli
In the next week, we will be announcing our winners! So watch this space!
