Each year, we nominate the full quota of five flash fictions for the prestigious The Best Small Fictions anthology from our winners selected by judges in our thrice-yearly Awards. For 2020 we are delighted to nominate ‘Candy Girls‘ by Christina Dalcher, the first prize winner chosen by our February 2019 judge, Vanessa Gebbie, ‘Cleft’ by Gaynor Jones, the first-prize winner chosen by our June 2019 judge, Christopher Allen, ‘Angie’ By Marissa Hoffmann, the first prize winner chosen by our October 2019 judge, Nancy Stohlman, ‘The Wild West’ by Francis McCrickard second prize winner chosen by Nancy Stohlman from the October 2019 Award and ‘Snow Falling Upwards‘ by Fiona J Mackintosh, chosen by Vanessa Gebbie from the February Award. All stories as well as being published online on this site are also published in With One Eye On The Cows our own yearly anthology, now published by Ad Hoc Fiction, which will be launched in Bath,Saturday, 8th February and is available to buy from our Ad Hoc Fiction online bookshop

It’s also a privilege to be able to nominate five winners from our sister Award, the Ad Hoc Fiction micro contest from the winners voted for by the public in 2019 and published on the winners’ pages of Ad Hoc Fiction. We have chosen, ‘A Mad Max World’ by Syliva Petter, ‘Time Will Say Nothing But I told You So’ by Alison Woodhouse, ‘Lunch at Luigi’s’ by Linda Grierson-Irish, ‘Push’ by Henry Barnes and ‘White Noise Playlists at St Bernadine Medical Center’ by Charles Duffie.

Best wishes to all our nominees. We love all your stories! The Best Small Fictions 2019 is published now. It’s a beautiful book and we are thrilled one of our last year nominees, Fiona J Mackintosh has her first prize winning story, ‘Siren’, published within it.