2018 FlashBack Fiction Microfiction Competition Highly Commended Casus Belli by Melanie Haws John Haas went to war, aged twenty-three, a plumber’s helper, with a few dollars saved, and a picture of his Dresden-doll sweetheart he carried in his left breast-pocket; he…
Life After Death
2018 FlashBack Fiction Microfiction Competition Highly Commended Life After Death by Jennifer Moore After he died they put a stranger in his stitched-up shell, sewing his name into the fellow’s mud-mushed brain to keep it from slipping. They gave the…
WW1 Microfiction Competition Shortlist
We are delighted to announce our shortlist. It has been excruciatingly difficult to reach a decision, which is a testament to the strength and quality of the micro fictions we received. Each of our six judges read every story that…
WWI Microfiction Competition Update
Thank you to all the writers who submitted work for our first microfiction competition, and to everyone who spread the word about the contest! The number of entries, range of themes, and quality of writing was staggering, and we received…
BackStory: Five Questions with Ellen Goldstein
BackStory: Five Questions with Ellen Goldstein Author of Marie Curie’s Kitchen What inspired you to write this “Marie Curie’s Kitchen”? I read Barbara Goldsmith’s Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (UK / US), and was struck by the…