Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-2019

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TSS Publishing is proud to present our list of the very best fifty British and Irish Flash Fiction (BIFFY50) 2018-2019.

With huge thanks to our four editors:

Rebecca Williams, Neil Campbell, Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, and Barbara Byar.

Each editor read widely across the last twelve months and their report will be published next week.

The list comprises:

50 flash fiction
40+ authors
25+ journals

Authors have been listed alphabetically, by first name.

Many congratulations to all those who made the list, including the authors, editors, and publishers of these works. We’re delighted to support the thriving Flash Fiction community.

 

TITLE	AUTHOR
Breaking News Just South of Alice Spring	Alicia Bakewell
When Where Doesn’t Matter	Alva Holland
Various Histories of Sea Serpents	Anita Goveas
You Will	Anne O’Leary
Bouncers	Barbara Robinson
Domestic	Belinda Rimmer
Our Feather	Cheryl Pearson
Exchange Rate	Chloe Banks
Secrets Blood and Paint	Chloe Smith
Boîte Fantôme	Chris Stanley
Alligator	Christopher M Drew
The Neverlands	Damhnait Monaghan
Fool	Danny Beusch
The Big Strip Tease	Donna L Greenwood
Skyscraper Woman	Emma Hutton
The Real Jazz Baby	Fiona J Mackintosh
The Chemistry of Living Things	Fiona J Mackintosh
Sweetness	Frances Gapper
Devil Moon	Gary Duncan
Al Fine/To The End	Gaynor Jones
The Pelt Collector	Gaynor Jones
You’ll Meet Me There	Helen McClory
Wild Spanish Boar	Jason Jackson
As Beautiful as Blackberry Picking	Jason Jackson
Are We Nearly There?	Jude Higgins
Small Mercies	Karen Jones
Nostalgia is a Blow-up Doll	Katie Lodge
Mintursol	Kristin Bonilla
Little Bird	Laure van Rensburg
Or Hats	Linda Grierson-Irish
Second Best Room	Lisette Auton
200 years ago we would have been dead by now	Louise Mangos
From the Monkey Bars	Lydia Unsworth
Ladybird	Mary Thompson
The Vague Sounds of Life	Mary Thompson
Something in the Moment	Matt Hutchinson
Bullseye	Meg Pokrass
Piggish	Meg Pokrass
Drink Like A Bird	Meg Pokrass
Receipts	Monica Dickson
Malachy	Niamh MacCabe
Commandment	Nuala O’Connor
Simple Home Economics	Olivia Fitzsimons
Pomegranate	Pia Ghosh-Roy
Here Once All Fields	Sarah-Clare Conlon
Clapping	Sarah Salway
My Father Comforts Me in the Form of Birds	Sharon Telfer
Her Safe Word is ‘Circus’	Sharon Telfer
Tom Waits and an Infinite Sadness	Stuart Buck
Northern Lights	Tim Craig

 

Every care has been taken with the spelling of titles and author names, but if you see an error, please do email and we will do our best to correct any mistakes as soon as possible.