Congratulations to all short-listed writers!
2023 short list:
1024
Aim: To Find Out If It Is Possible To Reach A Velocity At Which The Gravitational Influence of a Small Town Can be Escaped From
Before I’m gone
Derivatives
Fatherly Love
Fortune Cookie
Ghosts are Perpetual Motion Machines, Therefore Physicists Can’t Believe in Them
Hawaii
Lipstick Crisis
mother
Presumption of Death
sand dragons
seed
She leaves me oranges
Teething
Adult short list published at nationalflash.org/competition
If your work is listed, please refrain from mentioning which title is yours, as judges are still deliberating.
Take part in our 2023 Festival of Flash here!
Final placements announced June 22!
About the guest judge: 
Joanna Cho / 조은선 is a writer and editor. Her debut book People Person was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2022.
Read the NFFD interview with Joanna here!
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