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!

NEW Flash – Caleb Tankersly: We Have a City

We’re super-tingly to share one of our #Pushcart2016 nominees this week, Caleb Tankersley’s “We Have a City”:

Caleb Tankersley - We Have a City[sample]

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This flash originally appeared in SC 4.3, available for download or in print in our humble shop. Be sweet to us and subscribe? Weld Read on!

Pushcart Nominees 2015

Dear Readers, about this time each year the Pushcart nomination season offers an opportunity to honor a few of our authors. These choices are tough, as we love all the work we publish, and everyone on the team helped out. For the Pushcart Prizes XLI we nominate:

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