I’m thrilled to share the news that my recent story, Lotus, has been selected for publication in the National Flash Fiction Day 2026 Anthology. Here is what the editors had to say:
After reading scads of brilliant stories on the theme of BRIDGES, editors Karen Jones and Sharon Telfer have finalised their selections for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the third annual Editors’ Choice Awards.
Below is the list of the stories that will appear in this year’s anthology. Thank you so much to everybody who submitted their stories for consideration for this year’s anthology. It was an honour to read each and every piece. We appreciate the chance to read your work! We hope that you will all join us for the launch of the anthology on National Flash Fiction Day later this year.
2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Line Up
- ‘A Brief History of Trolls’ by Anne Howkins
- ‘A Frog Funeral’ by Finnian Burnett
- ‘As Easy as Falling Off a Log’ by Paula Durance
- ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water (Show Choir 6TH Grade)’ by Jessica Edmond
- ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ by Mileva Anastasiadou
- ‘Bridge That Gap with a Cadbury’s Snack’ by Alison Wassell
- ‘Cantilever’ by James Roderick Burns
- ‘Come On’ by Patricia Q. Bidar
- ‘Dice’ by C. L. Spillard
- ‘Doggerland (or, 10,000 years ago there were no migrant boats crossing the English Channel)’ by Erin Bondo
- ‘Don’t Look Down’ by Hilary Ayshford
- ‘Falling from the Mid-Point’ by Keith Rutter
- ‘Forty-nine Hedgehogs and the Hump-bottom Bridge’ by Rosaleen Lynch
- ‘Gentle Yoga Guide to Dealing with Materializing’ by Andy Lavender
- ‘He and She’ by Shelley Roche-Jacques
- ‘How to Fill the Space’ by Debra A. Daniel
- ‘Hue and Cry’ by Sarah Masters
- ‘If You Leave From the Southwest Gate and Follow the Cliffs for Half a Day, You Will Reach the Chasm, and the Bridge and the Heap’ by Jenna Muiderman
- ‘In Hebden Bridge at Midnight’ by Lucienne Cummings
- ‘Jack the Zoo’ by Jaime Gill
- ‘Learning to Talk Like the Bridge Ladies’ by Lola Page
- ‘Le Nez’ by Jill Munro
- ‘Lotus’ by F. C. Malby
- ‘Maybe Sarajevo’ by Cassandra Parkin
- ‘Meet Me Halfway’ by Rob Walton
- ‘Mile Marker 1.5’ by Steven Patchett
- ‘Mothman Caused the Silver Bridge Collapse’ by Sonora Hills
- ‘Mudlarking Under Richmond Bridge During the Annual Draw Off’ by Rachael Dunlop
- ‘Nepenthes’ by Jules Foshee
- ‘No Jerusalem for Alf Bridges’ by Andy Larter
- ‘Northolt Park’ by Sally Jane Tate
- ‘Nose’ by Rebecca Klassen
- ‘On Southend Pier, Sergeant Cranley Doesn’t Cut the Mustard’ by Gill O’Halloran
- ‘Placenta’ by Karen Arnold
- ‘Reasons to Be with You Parts One to Five’ by Emily MacDonald
- ‘Salad Days’ by Melanie Maggard
- ‘Seven Bridges Road’ by Sara Hills
- ‘Sister Benedict’ by Fiona Vigo Marshall
- ‘The Calm After the Storm’ by Jo Rigg
- ‘The Keep’ by Beth Sherman
- ‘The Passing Place’ by Bryony Burton
- ‘The Valley’ by Isabel McKeough
- ‘The World Doesn’t Like People It Can’t Mold’ by Christina Tudor
- ‘This Life’s Span’ by Audrey Niven
- ‘Vivaldi in B, Please Hold’ by Nivara Lune
- ‘Watermarked’ by Rosaleen Lynch
- ‘What It Holds’ by M.M. Bailey
- ‘What Single People Do on Sundays’ by Cath Holland
- ‘When Will the Bridge Break?’ by May Suri
- ‘Why I Sometimes Wish I was a Troll Under a Bridge’ by Rebecca Field
- ‘Woman by the Spree, April 1945’ by Emma Venables
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