About BIFFY50
The Best British Irish Flash Fiction Awards (BIFFY50) is a celebration of the brilliant writing being written and published by citizens of and those resident within the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Best British & Irish Flash Fiction, 2019-2020
With enormous thanks to our four editors who have worked tirelessly to bring this list about:
Emily Devane, Damhnait Monaghan, Cristopher M. Drew, and Karen Jones.
Each editor read widely across the last twelve months and collectively they have spent hundreds of hours arriving at their final decisions.
The list comprises:
50 flash fiction
50 authors
30+ 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.
| Adam Trodd | My Dada is a Bird | Lost Balloon |
| Alison Woodhouse | Time Will Say Nothing But I Told You So | Adhoc |
| Amanda Huggins | Sparrow Steps | Writers in Kyoto |
| Angela Readman | We Make Our Own Beaches | Jellyfish Review |
| Anita Goveas | How to Obey Gravity | Into The Void |
| Anne O’Leary | Mind Games | Lunate |
| Ashling Dennehy | Drowning in Star Fire | Splonk |
| Barbara Robinson | The Wedding Feast | Fictive Dream |
| Carmen Marcus | More than Sex | New Flash Fiction Review |
| Carrie Etter | Stephanie | Flash Flood |
| Christopher Linforth | Zia | Map Literary |
| Donna L Greenwood | Angels Only Dance With Astronauts | Molotov Cocktail |
| Emma Kernahan | Milk Teeth | New Flash Fiction Review |
| F.E. Clark | Her Self-Portrait | Matchbook |
| Farhana Khalique | Icebergs | Litro |
| Gary Duncan | Budle Bay | Virtual Zine |
| Gaynor Jones | So Far Over the Rainbow the Rainbow is a Fucking Dot | Reflex Fiction |
| Hannah Storm | Lesser Known Facts About Sloths | Virtual Zine |
| Helen McClory | The Difficulty of Writing a Horror Story set in Maine | Hobart |
| Jan Kaneen | The Fairytale Ending | Retreat West |
| Jane Lavelle | In Labour, After Pain Relief | Splonk |
| Jason Jackson | Of Photography and Truth | Fractured Lit |
| Jess Moody | Now Hold On | Ellipsis |
| Jo Gatford | Blood Flows Slower Than Water | Flash500 |
| Johanna Robinson | Marks | SmokeLong Quarterly |
| Jude Higgins | Jack and Jill | The Cabinet of Heed |
| Laura Besley | On Repeat | Reflex Fiction |
| Marie Gethins | Vestal Projection | Fictive Dream |
| Marissa Hoffman | Angie | Bath Flash Fiction Award |
| Mary Thompson | I’m More Afraid of Being Who You Think I Am Than You | Pithead Chapel |
| Mary-Jane Holmes | Flock | Fictive Dream |
| Matt Kendrick | Life at the Colliery | FlashBack Fiction |
| Meg Pokrass | My Sister the Arsonist | Electric Lit |
| Melanie Allen | Day Gift, September | Reflex Fiction |
| Michael Loveday | Crushed | Litro |
| Michelle Christophorou | Wearing You | Flash Flood |
| Mike Fox | The Fun Police | Fictive Dream |
| Neil Clark | Dead Man From The Ocean Floor | Molotov Cocktail |
| Nuala O’Connor | Rehearsal | Lost Balloon |
| Paul Thompson | We Feed them to the lions | Okay Donkey |
| Philip Charter | The Anatomy of a Hurdy-Gurdy | FlashBack Fiction |
| Rick White | Eric the Astronomer | Milk Candy Review |
| Roberta Beary | On the last ferry | New Flash Fiction Review |
| Sabeena Akhtar | Avarana | Visual Verse |
| Sam Payne | The Man You Didn’t Marry | Bath Flash Fiction Award |
| Sara Hills | Safety in Numbers | Retreat West |
| Sharon Telfer | Walking on Eggshells | TSS Publishing |
| Simon Pinkerton | Tony | Barrelhouse |
| Susmita Battacharaya | Score 1 – Locked Down | Strands |
| Tania Hershman | Understanding the Bloom Cycle of Roses | SmokeLong Quarterly |