Our outstanding studying workforce has completed reviewing entries in Hippocampus Journal’s second annual We Love Quick Shorts Contest for Flash Inventive Nonfiction, and we’re thrilled to announce this yr’s winners.

In February, we obtained 320 entries, every one as much as 250 phrases. These items expressed all kinds of themes, together with loss, loss of life, jealousy, nervousness, delight, and custom. Ultimately, we selected three items as our contest finalists, and shortly we’ll share every of their tales on our journal web site. That’s additionally after we will reveal our grand prize winner!

Tales will go stay Could 5 with our Could-June 2025 problem. We may also replace this submit to replicate the announcement. The grand-prize winner will obtain $250 and publication of their story. Every of the runners-up will obtain $100 and publication.

Flash CNF Contest Finalists

Listed below are our three finalists, listed in alphabetical order by title:

• “Ghouls” by Hillary Wentworth
• “Greed” by Tori Walters
• “Say the Phrase” by Annamaria Formichella

Learn their tales and see creator bios on their stay tales (after Could 5).

Contest Shortlist

Our studying workforce additionally recognized 4 honorable mentions for his or her excellence in capturing the essence of the flash type. These tales will seem in future problems with the journal.

Listed below are our 4 short-list tales:

• “grief at all times has a future” by JJ Pena
• “Mink” by Kathryn Ganfield
• “The Ice in Spring” by Matthew Trumbull
• “There there” by Sonja Larsen

Congratulations to our finalists and our honorable mentions! And thanks to every author who entered this yr’s contest. We sit up for studying your work once more sooner or later!

— Wendy Fontaine, flash editor