2023 Force Majeure Flash Contest Winners

Finally, and with a great deal of hearty congratulations to all involved, the winners of our annual flash writing contest — this year we had some truly wonderful entries and you all made it so very hard to choose! Lo:

1st Prize “Pre-Elegy for My Sister” by Whitney Koo 

2nd Prize “A Brief World” by Uyen P. Dang 

2nd Prize
“Bones” by Nathan Long 

honorable mentions: “Garden Statues” by Kendall Morris, “Midnight Zone” by Caleb Tankersley, and “Taint” by Veeda Khan.

All of our winners and honorable mentions will be published in issue #11.2, forthcoming in 2024!

The 2023 Force Majeure Flash Contest is still open!

We’re awarding $500 in prizes and the deadline is 5/30 — just extended. Enter with fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrids, fragments, experiments, and wild things under 1000 words. Here is a link to the entry form on Submittable that also contains the full guidelines.