bestmicrofiction 2022
- WINNER of the Bronze Medal for a book series in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards
- FINALIST in the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Fiction.
We are pleased to say that the 5th anthology Best Microfiction 2023 will be published by Pelekinesis in the summer of 2023. The Best Microfiction anthology series considers stories of only 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O’Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology will have Deb Olin Unferth serve as final judge.
The following stories have been chosen by final judge Tania Hershman to appear in Best Microfiction 2022. Congratulations!
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- Peter Anderson, “Wobble” (MoonPark Review)
- Isabelle B.L, “Cords” (FlashBack Fiction)
- Sudha Balagopal, “Bitter Hot Chocolate” (Monkeybicycle)
- Abbie Barker, “Alice, Some of the Time” (Atlas and Alice)
- Matt Barrett, “The Flood” (Pithead Chapel)
- Paul Beckman, “Writer's Jeopardy” (Bending Genres)
- Jack B. Bedell, “Swamp Thing Explains How Time Passes in the Middle of Dueling Crises” (Heavy Feather Review)
- Morgan Bennett, “Chicken Dinner” (beestung)
- Andrew Bertaina, “The Historian” (No Contact)
- Brett Biebel, “Lightweight” (Cease, Cows)
- Ben Black, “A Haunting” (Wigleaf)
- Kristin Bonilla, “Shy, Solitary Animals” (Cease, Cows)
- Melissa Llanes Brownlee, “She Has Lost Something Again” (The Birdseed)
- Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, “Chicken-Girls and Chicken-Ladies and All the Possibilities of Pillowcases” (Barren Magazine)
- Julie Cadman-Kim, “Iron Hans” (Fairy Tale Review)
- Tanya Castro, “It was 1687 when an apple fell in natural motion” (Lost Balloon)
- K-Ming Chang, “Kite-Fighting” (Hayden's Ferry Review)
- Janean Cherkun, “Same Old (notes to self)” (Flash Frontier)
- Michael Todd Cohen, “Throwing Stones” (Tiny Molecules)
- Tim Craig, “Going Down” (Ellipsis Zine)
- Jenzo DuQue, “history lesson” (Passages North)
- Kate Francia, “The Dragon and It” (Apex Magazine)
- Sarah Freligh, “Rise” (Trampset)
- Sarah Freligh, “Your Life as a Bottle” (Pithead Chapel)
- Jeff Friedman, “Giver of Gifts” (B O D Y)
- Frances Gapper, “For a Widow” (Twin Pies Literary)
- Scott Garson, “Canvas” (MoonPark Review)
- Lucy Goldring, “Calling at: Pharmacy, Florist, and Off-Licence only” (100 Word Story)
- Gabrielle Griffis, “Bowerbird” (matchbook)
- Nathalie Handal, “Unfading” (Aster(ix))
- L Mari Harris, “Let's” (matchbook)
- L Mari Harris, “Girl as Music Box Ballerina” (Milk Candy Review)
- Jude Higgins, “Codes to Live By” (New Flash Fiction Review)
- Tiffany Hsieh, “Pork Fluff” (The Waking)
- Ruth Joffre, “A Girl Makes Lemonade” (HAD)
- Ruth Joffre, “A Girl Wishes on a Star” (Wigleaf)
- Mary Jones, “Everything You Ever Gave Me” (Wigleaf)
- Lauren Kardos, “Rust Belt Triptych” (The Lumiere Review)
- Kristen Zory King, “Her Kingdom Come” (Citron Review)
- Andrea Lynn Koohi, “Jump” (Emerge Literary Journal)
- ML Krishnan, “Girls Who Sat at the Back of Buses” (Trampset)
- Kathryn Kulpa, “Mother-Daughter” (Monkeybicycle)
- Kinneson Lalor, “What Grief Is” (Reflex Fiction)
- Kat Lewis, “Hip Deep in the Chesapeake” (The Offing)
- Kat Lewis, “물귀신 | Mul Gwishin” (The Offing)
- Kristen Loesch, “Tapeworm” (FlashBack Fiction)
- Amy Lyons, “After the Thrill” (Flash Frog)
- Frankie McMillan, “Taking Turns” (Flash Boulevard)
- Frankie McMillan, “Romance in the lower and upper atmosphere” (Atticus Review)
- Cortney Phillips Meriwether, “Don't Get Lost in the Dinosaur Kingdom” (matchbook)
- Michelle Morouse, “Left to their own devices they became them” (Citron Review)
- Diane Payne, “Years” (Whale Road Review)
- Susan Perabo, “Contingencies” (CRAFT)
- Meghan Phillips, “In the Town Where All the Final Girls Live” (No Contact)
- Emma Phillips, “All the Things They Couldn't Hand Back” (Flash Fiction Magazine)
- Teresa Plana, “Tokyo Pearl” (Flash Frog)
- Angela Readman, “Other Shit Rumpelstiltskin Did” (The Phare)
- Kirsten Reneau, “"What I Think King Kong Is About (Having Never Seen King Kong)” (No Contact)
- Aleyna Rentz, “Excavating” (Monkeybicycle)
- Jessica June Rowe, “Underage.” (Atlas and Alice)
- Sarah Salway, “Allsorts” (Flash Frog)
- Robert Scotellaro, “Chickens in the Parlor” (South Florida Poetry Journal)
- Marvin Shackelford, “A Tragic Misstep in Evolution” (Atlas and Alice)
- Grace Q. Song, “Inheritance” (SmokeLong Quarterly)
- Star Su, “Freezing Point” (Citron Review)
- Joanna Theiss, “Ten Amazing Facts About the Human Body” (Bending Genres)
- Bob Thurber, “Before She Was My Mother” (The Woolf)
- Jennifer Todhunter, “Riding a Bike Without Training Wheels” (Ghost Parachute)
- Jennifer Todhunter, “Fridays” (perhappened)
- Leslie Walker Trahan, “The woman who cuts my hair says she's been hearing noises in her apartment” (Passages North)
- Leslie Walker Trahan, “Where There's Smoke” (Okay Donkey)
- Susan Triemert, “Sea Monsters” (Splonk)
- Cathy Ulrich, “I Do Not Want to Live Without You” (Flash Frog)
- Olivia Wolford, “Star Swallowed” (The Ekphrastic Review)
- Yunya Yang, “You Will Never Need to Walk Again” (Janus Literary)
- Sagan Yee, “The Taste of Our Pages” (Apex Magazine)
- Becca Yenser, “None of Us” (Heavy Feather Review)
- Lacey Yong, “Salvage” (perhappened)
- Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Calla Lilies” (Salt Hill)
- Corey Zeller, “How Skinny Can I Get” (The Offing)