bestmicrofiction 2025

We are pleased to announce that acclaimed author Dawn Raffel will be serving as final judge for the upcoming edition of Best Microfiction! We are very excited to see what she selects from the wonderful submissions we receive.

Best Microfiction 2025, the 7th in the series, will be published by Pelekinesis in the summer of 2025. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O’Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features stories of only 400 words or fewer.

The submission window will open to lit mag editors on November 2nd, 2024 and remain open until December 15th, 2024. Watch this space for details.


“Yes, this is how it is done. Beautiful, brooding, erotic, mysterious, idiosyncratic words shaped into thunderbolts, shocks that reveal what we didn’t know we know. Words filled with promise, bewildering and enchanting us. This is flash at its best, flash now.” Jane Ciabattari, columnist, BBC Culture, The Literary Hub

The following stories have been chosen by final judge Grant Faulkner to appear in Best Microfiction 2024. Congratulations!


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