New Flash Fiction Review was founded in 2014 by Meg Pokrass. An online magazine originally devoted to flash fiction, we have also published interviews with notable writers, prose poetry, and creative nonfiction.
We’re proud to have NFFR stories selected for awards anthologies such as the Wigleaf Top 50 and the Best Small Fictions anthology. It’s a joy each year to make nominations and see the authors we champion celebrated. Visit our recognition page for more details.
You may contact us at [email protected] but please don’t email us submissions. Visit our submission page for more details.
bout the NFFR Contest: The New Flash Fiction Review Prize is offered annually. A winner and two honorable mentions are chosen. For 2025, the contest will be open October 15 through November 15. Our judge will be announced before the contest opens. Recent judges have included Nathan Leslie and Sara Hills. Winners, honorable mention authors, and short-listed authors will be published in our contest issue. All guidelines are the same as for other issues (length, anonymous reading, etc.).
NFFR will be open for submissions for issue 37 from March 15, 2025, to April 15, 2025.
As editors always say, read the magazine for a sense of what we like. We value your trust in sending us your work. We’ll strive to send our replies within two weeks of the submission deadline. Here are our general guidelines:
- We invite you to submit one story.
- The maximum word count is 500 words.
- We don’t accept previously published material.
- Submissions only via Submittable.
- Simultaneous submits are cool, just do us the courtesy to withdraw it if needed.
- Please note all of our readings are anonymous, so please do not have any author information in your document, including as the file name, or we will have to reject it in fairness to the others and the principle of reading anonymously.
As usual, include a cover letter including a brief bio. Also, include an originality pledge in your letter that affirms that your work is your own and that AI was not used in its creation.
And do read recent issues of NFFR to give you a sense of what we love.
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