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And The Flash Fiction Winners Are...

Announcing Flash Fiction Winners

And The Flash Fiction Winners Are...

We received more than 100 submissions of very short fiction (about 500 words) in response to a prompt issued Aug. 29 by Molly McNett. McNett is an award-winning author and English faculty member at Northern Illinois University. Her prompt required an opening sentence describing "an outrageous, inexplicable situation." McNett selected the following winners:

  • "Losers Weepers," by Marie Watson (First Place);
  • "The Glass Children," by Ashley Keyser (Second Place);
  • Two stories tied for Third Place:
    "A Popload of Cash," by Andrew Kopecky;
    "The Tragedy of Childcare," by Ben Covey.
The winners were heard during Morning Edition from Tuesday through Friday, Oct. 4-7. Scroll down on this page to see videos of the authors reading their work.

McNett also selected six other writers whose work she believed deserved "honorable mention." Videos of them reading their work are collected below.