Many thanks to everyone who sent in stories for this month’s micro fiction comp, and to Cath Barton for the inspiring prompt that generated the most entries we’ve had so far. Which means the winner will receive a cash prize of £278 as well as free entry to the annual Flash Fiction Prize.
Of the 139 entries we received we’ve got a longlist of 40 stories. All readings are anonymous until the final judging is completed so only the story titles are show here. If your story is listed please don’t let anyone know what it is called! Congrats to the 40 writers who made it through.
April 2020 Micro Fiction Longlist
- Ancient Indonesian Tattoos, East of Java
- A Ghost is Here
- A Nice Cup of Tea
- Big Brother
- Carefully Crafted
- Changes of Fortune
- Dinosaurs and the Weary
- Dormant Power
- Elsie – The Love of my Life
- Everything Left Behind
- Garden Party Guidelines
- Homecoming
- How to Climb a Mountain
- Item One Hundred and Twenty-Five: To Climb a Mountain
- In the House of the Devil
- Life and Death
- Lost in Translation
- Maesta
- Nadia’s Mission
- On Preparing to Climb a Mountain for the First Time: I Will Not Let You Stop Me
- Paralysis
- Possibility
- Sacrificial Lamb
- Search Continues for Missing Botanist in Roen
- Strider
- Ten Seconds Before the End of the World
- The Ache
- The Distance
- The Grey Monolith
- The Mountain
- The Other Mountain was on Fire
- Time to Sow
- Torn Sky
- Tristão
- Up, Up and Away
- Utopia
- Walking on Chocolate
- Working from the Top
- When a Man is not a Mountain
- When Coffee is in your DNA
We’re busy reading again and the shortlist of 10 stories will be online for public voting on Monday 20th April. Good luck everyone!