The Best Small Fictions Anthology Selections
2022
Spotlighted Journals:
TBA
Spotlighted Stories:
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Full Selections:
"“Pav Queen for a Day” - Alex Reece Abbott - Flash Frontier
“Chromatic” - Ashia Ajani - Hennepin Review
“47” - Shereen Akhtar - Masters Review
“Kerosene Man” - Christopher Allen - Fictive Dream
“What Will Happen to the Fat Girl” - Jessie Lovett Allen - The Forge
“Jum Climbs the Tualang Tree” - Kelli Allen - Gargoyle
“On the Transit of Our Great-Grandmother” - Akhim Alexis - Chestnut Review
“Ten New Words” - Farah Ali - Split Lip Magazine
“Advanced Math for the Sleepless” - Laila Amado - Milk Candy Review
“aila kageyama” - Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi - Electric Literature
“Little White Birds” - Natasha Ayaz - Narrative Magazine
“Life Times Nine” - Sudha Balagopal - matchbook
“Intimates” - Amy Barnes - 2020 NFFD Anthology: Root, Branch, Tree & Mother Figures (ELJ Editions)
“Back Home” - Elodie Barnes - Gone Lawn
“Bread” - Lana Bastašić - translated by Celia Hawkesworth - Freeman’s
“The Collector” - Roberta Beary - International Tales of Brilliant Flash Fiction (Brilliant Flash Fiction)
“Swimming” - Tina Jenkins Bell - Jet Fuel Review
“Undergrowth” - Melissa Bowers - SmokeLong Quarterly
“Finnegan’s (Fiancée Goes McArthur Park on His Birthday) Cake” - John Brantingham - MacQueen’s Quinterly
“Walker Brentson” - Margaret Emma Brandl - The Boiler
“Crystal Pigs” - Allison Brice - Lascaux Review
“A Folktale of Follicles” - Victoria Buitron - Litro
“The Twelve Dancing Princesses” - Sarah Shun-lien Bynum - Fairy Tale Review
“A Lethal Woman” - K.B. Carle - No Contact
“Radish Head” - K-Ming Chang – matchbook
“After Your Wedding” - Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar - Kahini and Morsels of Purple (Alien Buddha Press)
“Dennis Lee & Our Souls” - Celeste Chen - Perhappened
“Faster” - Whitney Collins - Shenandoah
“The Good Life” - Sheldon Lee Compton - Gone Lawn
“Smoldering” - Tommy Dean - South Florida Poetry Journal
“The Summer Before the Glitter Fell Out of My Eyes - Mary DeCarlo - Had
“Tales from Institut für Sexualwissenschaft” - Alex DiFrancesco - Waxwing
“Fiesta Chili Pepper Period” - Catherine Chiarella Domonkos - Flash Frontier
“Shoes” - Mustapha Enesi - Litro
“some hard, hot places” - Kathy Fish - Ploughshares
“Broken Keys” - Jennifer Fliss - Ghost Parachute
“The Irish Guest at the Wedding in Krakow” - Linda Nemec Foster - MacQueen’s Quinterly
“Tortillas Burning” - Carribean Fragoza - Eat the Mouth that Feeds You (City Lights Books)
“You Come Here Often” - Sarah Freligh - South Florida Poetry Journal
“13 Mysteries” - Mack Gelber - Monkeybicycle
“In the Winter” - Puloma Ghosh - CRAFT
“Live Maine Lobsters” - David K. Gibson - Wigleaf
“The Sowder Sisters” - Molly Giles - Wife with Knife (Leapfrog Press) & Fiction Southeast
“Bon Appetit” - Matan Gold - Portland Review
“Compulsion” - Sharon Goldberg - Jellyfish Review
“LAP” - Pamela Gordon - Gargoyle
“Instructions for Visiting Our State’s Correction Facility” - Jo Goren - The Ilanot Review
“Instructions for Lovers” - Lauren Green - Southeast Review
“The Maiden Without Hands” - Lauren Groff - Fairy Tale Review
“Graciela” – Tarak a Hamada - SAND Journal
“Hot Cold & Blue” - Charlotte Hamrick - Still: The Journal
“Basic Holiday Math” - D.E. Hardy - Instant Noodles (Devil’s Party Press)
“Sliver” - Candace Hartsuyker - Exposition Review
“The Oracle Monger” - Frederick Highland - Gargoyle
“Ewe” - Sara Hills - Cease, Cows
“Reflecting Pool” - Yong-Yu Huang - Cheap Pop
“Sentence” - Mikhail Iossel - Love Like Water, Love Like Fire (Bellevue Literary Press) & Literary Hub
“The Anti-Fascist” - Naomi Kanakia - West Branch
“Black Annis” - Matt Kendrick - New Flash Fiction Review
“Apologetics” - Jakie Thomas-Kennedy - Idaho Review
“The Breakfast Triptych” - Alexandra Kessler - Lost Balloon
“Everybody” - Farhana Khalique - National Flash Fiction Day UK
“The Mirror” - David Hoon Kim - The New Yorker
“Red Bean, Chrysanthemum” - Rachel Kim - Capsule Stories
“A Too Small Room” - Yume Kitasei - Fractured Lit
“Blue for Pints” - Sarah Leamy - Passenger’s Journal
“From one migrant to another” - Kirsten Le Harivel - The Cuba Press
“Stolen” - Zizheng Liu - Gone Lawn
“How to House the Wanting” - Julia LoFaso - Hayden’s Ferry Review
“Mayim” - Nancy Ludmerer - Streetlight Magazine
“The 10 Billion Incarnations of Hitler” - Kate MacQueen - Modern Haiku
“The Sudden Ocean” - Nicholas Maistros - Baltimore Review
“Rivka Survives” - Liz Marlow - Jet Fuel Review
“Some Things You’ll Do When You Would Rather Be Happy” - Laurie Marshall - Lascaux Review
“The Girl Under Glass” - Kristine Marx - Variant Literature
“The Frog Prince” – Ilana Masad - Fairy Tale Review
“How to Develop (Film)” - Candice May - Masters Review
“We Are Not Love Machines” - Miriam McEwen - SAND Journal
“The Question” - Catherine McNamara - Ellipsis Zine
“Let Us Go and Serve Other Gods” - Adam McOmber - Orca, A Literary Journal
“Their Voices Are in Their Legs” - Emily Jane Morris - Moon City Review
“Lousy” - Malika Moustadraf – translated by Alice Guthrie - The Common, Literary Hub, & Blood Feast (Feminist Press)
“Land of Eternal Thirst” - Leah Mueller - Land of Eternal Thirst (Dumpster Fire Press)
“Proper Names” - Marcus Ong Kah Ho - Hayden's Ferry Review
“Nature” - Cheryl Pappas - The Clarity of Hunger (Word West)
“Contingencies” - Susan Perabo - CRAFT
“Thoughts and Prayers” - Brenda Peynado - The Rock Eaters (Penguin Books)
“Back on the Chain Gang” - Meg Pokrass - Flash Boulevard
“Miss Darling” - Sarah Priscus - Flash Frog
“Snow Crow” - Doug Ramspeck - Bath Flash Fiction Award
“A Mere Two Yards” - Naima Rashid - Lunate
“The Story of the Bee” - Tim Raymond - Portland Review
“We are Five Cousins” - Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera - Peatsmoke Journal
“Hikikomori” - Karen Rigby - International Tales of Brilliant Flash Fiction (Brilliant Flash Fiction)
“All the Important Elements” - Pip Robertson - trampset
“Cocoon” - Maurice Ruffin - The Ones Who Don’t Say they Love You (One World)
“Intersection” - Basmah Sakrani - Baltimore Review
“Squirm” - Robert Scotellaro - MacQueen’s Quinterly
“Permeable” - sid sibo - Orca, A Literary Journal
“Gwah Ju” - Steffi Sin - Adroit
“The Babysitter” - Kat Solomon - Wigleaf
“The Confucius Descendants Reunion Barbeque” - Jade Song - Sine Theta
“Little Feet” - Gabriella Souza - Cleaver Magazine
“My Aunt Doesn’t Care in Four Different Languages” - Nardine Taleb - Electric Literature
“My Grandmother’s Tattoo” - Joseph Tepperman - Atticus Review
“Featherlight” - Pamela Naaki Tetteh - AFREADA
“Nonna Francesca of Te Wharepōuri Street” - Catherine Trundle - Flash Frontier
“1-Ply” - Nicole Tsuno - Perhappened
“Pimiento Season” - María Alejandra Barrios Vélez - Moon City Review
“Things Never Stay Warm” – Maria Alejandra Barrios Vélez – Fractured Lit
“Local Curses” - Jack Vening - Hobart
“Ama” - Amy Wang - Sine Theta
“My Sisters and I” - Pim Wangtechawat - Capsule Stories
“Underworld” - Cate West - Janus Literary
“The Job Centre” - Alice Wilson - Apple Valley Review
“Men Buying Jewelry for Their Wives” - Naira Wilson - Wigleaf
“This Isn’t Anything” - Francine Witte - Okay Donkey
“Synonym for Tree on Fire” – Becca Yenser – Reflex Fiction
“Groceries” - Anne-Marie Yerks - Peatsmoke Journal
“Thigh Gap” - Lucy Zhang - Hobart
“Faith” – Xueyi Zhou - Chestnut Review
“Father’s Fabric” – Xueyi Zhou - JMWW