Best Microfiction 2026 Selections: Congrats to Michelle Ross!
Congratulations to Michelle Ross, whose story “Long Game," published in jmww, was chosen to appear in Best Microfiction 2026!
…and her name was Good
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Best Small Fictions Nominations
We are pleased to announce our 2026 Best Small Fictions Nominations!
Northern bobwhite. First bird of the year.
Submissions Are Now Open!
We are reading Blended & Beyond, Flash Fiction, and Poetry now through January 15th. Send us your best!
2025: A Year in Review by Olga Katsovskiy
I keep returning to this quiet truth: you don't need a long list to justify your year or measure your worth.
Flash Fiction: New Dad by Nicole Brogdon
When New Dad says he’s going fishing, he’s really going fishing.
2026 Best Microfictions Nominees
We are pleased to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2026
Flash Fiction: Little Inferno by Mathieu Parsy
The crowd names you “Little Inferno.” You like the name. No one asks if it hurts.
It's just so primed for "This is just to say" treatment.
C'mon, poets. Rise and shine.
Congrats to our Pushcart nominees!
"Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’t choose her."
Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
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"He explained that the fountain was about transformation. Water is motion. Life is motion. The flap of the wing, the angel, the bird. The carrying of each from one world to the next."
Oh my... this gorgeous and funny story about angels and hauntings by @bybethhahn.bsky.social is a must-read. ❤️⛲⚰️〰️🤯
"Kai wonders if this is a drill or not."
Flash Fiction: All Clear by Alex Juffer
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/f...
loved this haunting flash by @bybethhahn.bsky.social.
“It wasn’t the thing she was supposed to die of, but an accident. While it was happening, it felt like a cartoon.”
This piece has all the feels.
"The challenge of flash fiction is, of course, to pick the right words to tell a complete story, since the writer is allowed so few."
Craft: Word Count by Lisa Thornton
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"How has being part of jmww influenced you as a writer?"
Reading the queue at jmww has influenced the way I edit my own flash fiction.
Get to Know: Lisa Thornton, Associate Flash Fiction Editor
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"A month before she died, she stripped to her bra and underwear on a July day and climbed into a city fountain."
Flash Fiction: Not What the Living Think by Beth Hahn
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/f...
"The more I listened, the more the drumming made sense. Glued together by a few steady beats, pleasing, ever-shifting patterns formed in the chaos."
Flash Fiction: Drum Circle by Laura Remington
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/f...
"I know this is also his way of telling me the truth. That when he was a boy he lost friends, but translating Morse code while serving as a soldier, he was also likely the reason others did too." Beautiful @kellypedro.bsky.social @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
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“I wondered if I would be handed a menu, some pictures perhaps, but Rajiv wheels a single baby out, in an identical crib. A girl, madam. Her name is Rashida.”
Haunted by this important motherhood story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 🍼
Friends I have a piece up in a dream journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social today about the relentlessness of motherhood (and a public toilet sign). Hope you’ll read. Thanks @kbonilla.bsky.social for seeing something in it 🧡🧡🧡
Thank you for sending this our way! 🧡
"I walk down the stairs – concrete, the edges smoothed away by time and the march of many mothers."
Flash Fiction: Baby Change by Sumitra Singam
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/f...
“The smoke helps the pineapples grow the same size,” he says, “but first they have to bring them to within an inch of their lives.”
Another gem by @kellypedro.bsky.social, this one in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social !
Sometimes, I write a flash that I feel so tender about, and today @jmwwjournal.bsky.social published that piece. "Pineapples" is even more special to me because my sister's photography accompanies it. I'd love if you gave it a read. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/f... #WritingSky #FlashFiction
"Bringing me to this place, he thinks he’s showing me what his life has really been like. But I know this is also his way of telling me the truth."
I love this remarkable flash (and the last perfect line) by @kellypedro.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 💙💙💙
“The smoke helps the pineapples grow the same size,” he says, “but first they have to bring them to within an inch of their lives.” And I roll my eyes because he’s not really talking about pineapples anymore.
Flash Fiction: Pineapples by Kelly Pedro
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/f...