Thank you to all who entered our 32nd Award. We received 989 flash fictions of 300 words or under from writers in the following countries:
Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Republic of Korea, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
A substantial number of writers received our last minute club badge for entering on the last day.
As I said in a recent post, this game has been going since June 2018. But as always, we appreciate everyone who enters at anytime during the three months of the award.
Big thanks to Ingrid Jenzrejewski who judged this round, after stepping in late in the competition to replace John Brantingham who will now judge in October this year. Ingrid chose the usual five writers and also gave more special mentions to several other writers from our short list. We’re going to check with them if they’d like their stores posted on the website. We really appreciate her close reading and insightful comments about all the stories, which adds another level to them. Do read her report. The winners’ brilliant stories are published on this website (links to them below ) and will be included in our 2026 BFFA anthology.
1st prize goes to UK writer Shelley Roche-Jacques for her story ‘They announce a two-minute silence for the fallen in Morrisons‘
2nd prize goes to Sarp Sozdinler from the Netherlands with their story ‘More’
3rd prize goes to Letty Butler from the UK with her story ‘the rabbit hole i fall down at 3.07am’
Highly commended to Rachel Curzon from the UK for her story ‘Hestia/Dionysus’
Highly commended to Fiona Lynch from Australia for her story ‘Low Altitude’
The next round of the Award opens on March 1st and will end in early June. The judge is award winning writer and teacher, Alison Woodhouse. We’ll post an interview with her on the site soon.
Jude, February 2026
