Spring Warmer: Flash fiction longlist

Announcing the final longlist for our Spring Warmer issue!

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Flash wizard Tommy Dean has described the art of flash fiction thusly:

Writing flash fiction is using the language of poetry, and the action/reaction of a stage play, all while balancing the need for context and characterisation, with the added magic of brevity and compression.

Each of the flash fiction writers on today’s longlist have achieved at least some dimension of that definition, and in doing so, have conspired to present us with some incredible writing, and some very difficult decisions!

The twenty-five writers on our Flash Fiction longlist are:

• Alison Wassell

• Amanda LaMantia

• Audrey-Anna Gamache

• Beth Sherman

• Claire Taylor

• Eirene Gentle

• Fiona McKay

• Gill O'Halloran

• Hilary Ayshford

• June Gemmell

• Karen Arnold

• Karen Schauber

• Katja Sass

• Lisa Rebert

• Melissa Fitzpatrick

• Nina Zolotow

• Rick Adams

• Roopa Menon

• Rory Perkins

• Sara Chansarkar

• Sarah Masters

• Tracie Adams

• Tyler Ayres

• Will Meehan

• Yousef Allouzi

As before, please let us know if we’ve spelled your name incorrectly, or have failed to use your pen name. We’ll correct any errors as soon as possible.

We will be making our final decisions in the coming days.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to us!

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