bestmicrofiction 2019

Michael Martone comes aboard as Best Microfiction 2020's Guest Editor!

We're thrilled to announce that the innovative author Michael Martone will judge Best Microfiction 2020. You can read about Michael Martone here. We feel that the perspective Martone will bring to this growing series is invaluable. We could not have found a better fit.

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The following stories have been chosen by final judge Dan Chaon to appear in Best Microfiction 2019. Congratulations!

To see the list of honorable mentions, click here.

• Sarah Arantza Amador, “Sanctus Spiritus, 1512” (Cheap Pop)
• Anita Arlov, “He, She, It, They” (National Flash Fiction Day NZ)
• Jessica Barksdale, “Knock Knock” (Matchbook Lit Mag)
• Roberta Beary, “Swimming in Circles” (KYSO Flash)
• Matt Bell, “The Hungerer” (Wigleaf)
• Dick Bentley, “Health Care” (Serving House Journal)
• Gregory Brown, “Birdhouse” (PRISM International)
• Tetman Callis, “Candlelight and Flowers” (NY Tyrant)
• Mike Chin, “Training” (Passages North)
• Myfanwy Collins, “Euthanasia” (Jellyfish Review)
• Tim Craig, “Northern Lights” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
• Tommy Dean, “You’ve Stopped” (Pithead Chapel)
• Olga Dermott-Bond, “Mr Rochester and I” (Bath Flash Fiction v3)
• Leonora Desar, “Fire, Ocean” (TSS)
• Leonora Desar, “My Father’s Girlfriend” (Matchbook Lit Mag)
• Leonora Desar, “The Monkey” (Reflex Fiction)
• Will Finlayson, “The Strip Club” (Southampton Review)
• Valerie Fox, “Even the Christmas Tree was Nicer That Year” (Across the Margin)
• Sarah Freligh, “Any Body” (Cincinatti Review)
• Frances Gapper, “Plum Jam” (Flashback Fiction)
• Jo Gatford, “Things Left And Found By The Side Of The Road” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
• Christopher Gaumer, “He Died We Left Him Til Morning” (The Citron Review)
• Beth Gilstrap, “Becky” (Pithead Chapel)
• Beth Gilstrap, “Bone Words” (Longleaf Review)
• Melissa Goode, “Empire of Light” (Gone Lawn)
• Melissa Goode, “I Wanna Be Adored ” (Cheap Pop)
• Melissa Goode, “Tonight, We Are Awake” (Wigleaf)
• Cavin Gonzalez, “Fragments of Evolution” (Cheap Pop)
• Anita Goveas, “Frau Roentgen’s Left Hand” (Flashback Fiction)
• Anita Goveas, “Let’s Sing All the Swear Words We Know ” (Lost Balloons)
• Tina May Hall, “The Extinction Museum: Exhibit #28 (incandescent bulb, unlit)” (The Collagist)
• Toni Halleen, “Not the Whole Story” (Wigleaf)
• Steven John, “A Brief History of Time in Our House” (Ad Hoc Fiction)
• Peter Krumbach, “11.37” (The Adroit Journal)
• Meghan Lamb, “Missing” (Passages North)
• Raven Leilani, “Kanekalon” (Split Lip)
• Paige Leland, “Self Portrait with Early December” (Former Cactus)
• Robert Lopez, “A Warm Motherly Look” (Wigleaf)
• Paul Luikart, “Breathless” (Brilliant Flash Fiction)
• Fiona Mackintosh, “Siren” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
• Fiona Mackintosh, “The Chemistry of Living Things” (Fish Publishing)
• Lutivini Majanja, “Am Inheritance” (Flash Frontier)
• Prosper Makara, “Lessons from my Mother” (Afreada—Africa’s Literary Magazine)
• Dan Malakoff, “Loop-the-Loop” (Wigleaf)
• Michael Martone, “Boom” (Always Crashing)
• Michael Martone, “Klaus Weber, Curb House Numberer” (The Collagist)
• Kathleen McGookey, “You Can Find Joy in Doing Laundry” (KYSO)
• Adam McOmber, “A Roman Road” (Atticus Review)
• Heather McQuillan, “A post-traumatic god” (Menicus)
• KC Mead-Brewer, “It’s Shaped like a Grin, They Say” (Cheap Pop)
• José Enrique Medina, “Niños de La Tierra” (Burnside Review)
• Tracy Lynne Oliver, “This Weekend” (Fanzine)
• Brenda Peynado, “Fire” (Craft Magazine)
• Dominica Phetteplace, “After the Flood Waters Came” (Wigleaf)
• Meghan Phillips, “Abstinence Only” (Passages North)
• Meghan Phillips, “Final Girl Slumber Party” (Barrelhouse)
• Kristen Ploetz, “LifeColor Indoor Latex Paints® — Whites and Reds (R)” (JMWW)
• Claire Polders, “Breathlessness” (Moonpark Review)
• Dina Relles, “And Sometimes We Meet” (Matchbook Lit Mag)
• Belinda Rimmer, “Domestic” (Anti-Heroin Chic)
• Nicole Rivas, “Crumbs” (The Cincinnati Review)
• Becky Robison, “Baby Dolls” (Pank)
• Brad Rose, “Desert Motel” (Pithead Chapel)
• Sarah Salway, “Not Sorry” (Cincinnati Review)
• Kim Samsin, “World’s Finest” (Matchbook Lit Mag)
• Noa Sivan, “The End of the World” (Synaesthesia Magazine)
• Rachel Smith, “What I Now Know” (Flash Frontier)
• Rachel Smith, “Glossectomy” (Menicus)
• Joe Squance, “The Seeds of Things” (Cease, Cows)
• Elizabeth Stix, “Tsunami” (Southampton Review)
• Paul Strohm, “Masculinities” (West Marin Review)
• Xenia Taiga, “Princesses” (Synaesthesia Magazine)
• Kaj Tanaka, “The Hair Child” (Bending Genres)
• Sharon Telfer, “My Father Comforts Me in the Form of Birds” (Reflex Fiction Magazine)
• Jamie Thunder, “The Central Line Has Severe Delays” (Spelk)
• Cathy Ulrich, “The Delicate Art of Ikebana” (Barren Magazine)
• TM Upchurch, “There Will Be No Lace” (Flashback Fiction)
• Zach VandeZande, “Making an Illegal U Turn on 15th near Union” (Monkeybicycle)
• Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, “Satin Nightwear for Women Irregular” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
• Clare Weze, “Helping” (Reflex Fiction)
• Charmaine Wilkerson, “The Laundry Room Comes First” (Fiction Southeast)
• Benjamin Woodard, “Half Tank” (Atticus Review)
• Luke Wortley, “Reverse Field Trip” (Longleaf)
• Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Feeding Time” (Okay Donkey)
• Tara Isabel Zambrano, “New Old” (The Southampton Review)
• Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Snowstorm” (Atticus Review)
• C Pam Zhang, “BRAINDRAIN” (Paper Darts)