KYSO Flash is pleased to announce the nomination of five works (which we published during calendar year 2018) for the fifth annual Best Small Fictions Anthology *

Flash Fiction:

• ⚡  Fingers by Barry Peters

Haibun Story:

• ⚡  Welcome to Belfast by Alexis Rotella

Micro-Fiction:

• ⚡  The End Smells Like Gasoline by Lynn Mundell

Prose Poems:

• ⚡  The Making of a Collector by Nin Andrews
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• ⚡  Words for Snow by Roy Beckemeyer *

The 2019 Guest Editor for Best Small Fictions [BSF] is Rilla Askew, author of four novels and a collection of short stories, and the winner of numerous awards including the O. Henry Award for her story “The Killing Blanket” and the American Book Award and the Myers Book Award for her novel “Fire in Beulah.” Ms. Askew will be judging the BSF finalists. Winners, finalists, and semi-finalists will be notified in spring 2019, and the anthology will be published in the fall.

* Results announced in April 2019 and included two works from KYSO Flash:

⚡  Words for Snow by Roy Beckemeyer

⚡  Boy Meets Girl by Kathleen McGookey

See also our previous nominations:

The Best Small Fictions 2018

The Best Small Fictions 2017

The Best Small Fictions 2016

The Best Small Fictions 2015 (debut issue)