The Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize 2020
Thank you to everyone who entered the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize 2020. We had just over 400 entries and the quality of work was outstanding and we are pleased to shares these twenty-five shortlisted titles. (The fifty longlisted titles can also be found below.)
Judging remains anonymous. Please do not identify yourself with a particular flash fiction, although you are welcome to share news of your shortlisting.
For those who also write short stories, you may be interested in the Cambridge Short Story Prize which opens on 15th April.
Our sincere thanks again,
TSS
The Winners & Highly Commended
1st place: Yew – Johanna Robinson
2nd place: Lasagne – HLR
3rd place: Space – Francesca Newton
Highly Commended
Hooked – Hannah Storm
Should I Worry? – Christopher Newlove Horton
Water Baby – Amanda O’Callaghan
Wild Joshua Trees – John Brantingham
The Shortlist
Flash fiction is listed alphabetically.
A Name for the Naming of Things – Ian O’Brien
Breaster, Breastee – Kate Smith
Cat’s Cradle – Jen Julian
Claiming Kin – Gerladine Seymour
Dog Years – Edward Barnfield
Electric Blue and Threadbare – Rosie Escott
Elephant Grass Farm – Julia Anderson
Eyes and Ears and Mouth and – Amy Slack
Hooked – Hannah Storm
Lasagne – HLR
Lifeline – Marie Gethins
Love Life (and Death) of a Lush – Sharon Boyle
My Mother Made Me – Frances Gapper
Should I Worry? – Christopher Newlove Horton
Soloing Andalucía – Tracy Lee-Newman
Space – Francesca Newton
Swan – Jude Higgins
The Never-Quites, Never Quite, Never – Stephanie Hutton
Unspeakable – Christina Dalcher
Water Baby – Amanda O’Callaghan
Weekend Break – Mary-Jane Holmes
Wild Joshua Trees – John Brantingham
Yew – Johanna Robinson
Withdrawn
A Trading Post On The 117th Meridian West – Jane Copland
Tornadoes – Andrew Stancek
The winners announced by 15th April 2020.
The Longlist
Flash fiction is listed alphabetically:
A Moment of Totality – Mark Left
A Name for the Naming of Things – Ian O’Brien
A Trading Post on the 117th Meridian West – Jane Copland
Again – Michelle Cook
All Filler No Killer – Kevin Cheeseman
All Seems Well on Departure – Bethan Hay
An Evening at Café Sputnik – Thad DeVassie
Back Again So Soon? – Gloria Azubuike
Breaster, Breastee – Kate Smith
Buzzy the Words that Rhyme with Harry – Anita Arlov
Cat’s Cradle – Jen Julian
Catching Trains When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going – Anne Howkins
Claiming Kin – Gerladine Seymour
Dale’s Shoe Emporium – Amy Barnes
Dog Years – Edward Barnfield
Electric Blue and Threadbare – Rosie Escott
Elephant Grass Farm – Julia Anderson
Ember – Simon Cowdroy
Eyes and Ears and Mouth and – Amy Slack
Hooked – Hannah Storm
Jump – Rita Ciresi
Keepsake – Gina Grandi
Lasagne – HLR
Lifeline – Marie Gethins
Love Life (and Death) of a Lush – Sharon Boyle
My Mother Made Me – Frances Gapper
Perfect – Katrina Flett
Revolution Never Tasted as Sweet as This – Victoria Richards
Saturday at the Crematorium – Marissa Hoffmann
Second City Reels – T. Ransome
Should I Worry? – Christopher Newlove Horton
Snack Box Saga – Meg Mulchay
Soloing Andalucía – Tracy Lee-Newman
Songs of Hope and of the Sea – Jeanna Louise Skinner
Soviet Fairytale – Alexandra Watsham
Space – Francesca Newton
Swan – Jude Higgins
Swimming Lessons – Joyce Wheatley
The Essence of Her – Corin Burnside
The Leanest Branch, The Thinnest Leaf – Niamh MacCabe
The Never-Quites, Never Quite, Never – Stephanie Hutton
The Panic Button – Joe Bedford
The Price of Pebbles – Jo Withers
The Twisted Path – Sarah Lawton
Tornadoes – Andrew Stancek
Unspeakable – Christina Dalcher
Water Baby – Amanda O’Callaghan
Weekend Break – Mary-Jane Holmes
Wild Joshua Trees – John Brantingham
Yew – Johanna Robinson