is happy to announce the results of our
Flash Fiction Competition
2025/26
As usual, the quality of entries was impressive. Choosing the winner was no easy task but here, after much deliberation, are the results of our Flash Fiction Competition.
Winning Stories
Winner: “Seven Beautiful Dutch Words for Bald” – by Jay McKenzie
2nd Place: “The Cracks” – by Jaime Gill
3rd Place: “Below the Salt” – by Tim Collyer
Also Short-Listed
I Grieve at Night – Barry Rosenberg
White Rhino – Cat Boyd-Foley
The Pale Flesh and the Brown – Glyn Matthews
Long Listed Authors
| Amanda Gilroy | Amy de Flavis |
| Ashish Kaul | Barry Rosenberg |
| Cat Boyd-Foley | Denarii Peters |
| Eleni Athanasatou | Ewan McLeish |
| Gerard Dempsey | Glyn Matthews |
| Jay McKenzie | Jaime Gill |
| Jean Cooper Moran | Joanna Miller |
| Jonathan Buckmaster | Julie Weary |
| Jo Riglar | Lisette Abrahams |
| Mike Woodhouse (x2) | Misha Vojtech |
| Robert Tateson | Samantha Bower |
| Shannon Yates | Simon Carter |
| Terence Mcenery | T.E. Lowe |
Honorable Mention
Susmita Mukherjee
Congratulations to all our winners!
We thank you all for entering. If your entry didn’t reach the long and short lists this year, please take courage from the fact that competition was fierce, and that so many wonderful stories missed by a single (or even a fraction of a) point.