Our superb studying staff has completed reviewing entries in Hippocampus Journal’s third annual We Love Quick Shorts Contest for Flash Inventive Nonfiction, and we’re thrilled to announce this 12 months’s winners.

Through the month of February, we acquired 308 entries, each as much as 250 phrases. This 12 months’s tales explored moments of kindness, friendship, parental love, grief and loss, mourning, and serendipity. In the long run, 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 dwell Could 4, together with our Could-June 2026 difficulty. At the moment, we may even replace this submit to replicate the announcement. Our grand-prize winner will obtain $250 and publication of their story. Every of the 2 runners-up will obtain $100 and publication.

Flash CNF Contest Finalists

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

• “Socks” by Joe Kapitan
• “Tag” by Noah Browne
• “You Can Rehome a Cat However Not a Child” by Tracie Adams

Honorable Mentions: The Quick Shorts Shortlist

Our studying staff additionally recognized 5 honorable mentions for his or her excellence in capturing the essence of the flash type. These 5 short-listed tales will seem in future problems with the journal:

• “Between the Sink and the Door” by Eric Goldfarb
• “Field” by Matthew Trumbull
• “Daisies” by Ofrit Peres
• “Snapshot” by Jocelyn Lovelle
• “The Bedsheet” by Victoria Windsor

Congratulations to our finalists and our honorable mentions! And thanks to every author who entered this 12 months’s contest. We stay up for studying your work once more sooner or later!

–Wendy Fontaine, flash editor