{"id":2771,"date":"2026-03-11T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:30:20","slug":"national-flash-fiction-day-2026-microfiction-competition-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/national-flash-fiction-day-2026-microfiction-competition-results\/","title":{"rendered":"National Flash Fiction Day 2026 Microfiction Competition Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the results are in!<\/p>\n<p>Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First Prize<\/strong>: \u2018The Universe Expands Her World Contracts\u2019 by Nan Wigington<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second Prize<\/strong>: \u2018How Knees Learn\u2019 by M.M. Bailey<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joint Third Prize<\/strong>: \u2018The Things It Wasn\u2019t\u2019 by Alison Wassell<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joint Third Prize<\/strong>: \u2018Two Seismologists Share a Bed\u2019 by T.J. Burgoyne<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highly Commended<\/strong>: \u2018After another 12-hour Day Tied to My desk, My Shadow Makes its Excuses and Leaves\u2019 by James Montgomery<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highly Commended<\/strong>: \u2018Fallujah\u2019 by B.G. Smith<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highly Commended<\/strong>: \u2018Gather Yellow, Said the Voice in Her Head\u2019 by A. E. Thomason<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highly Commended<\/strong>: \u2018I\u2019m Invited to Watch Them Feed her body Into the Incinerator\u2019 by Allison Renner<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highly Commended<\/strong>: \u2018Warranty\u2019 by M.M. Bailey<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highly Commended<\/strong>: \u2018What You Think About When Your Visitors Tell You to Keep Fighting\u2019 by Catherine Ogston<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winning and highly commended stories can be read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/competition\/2026-microfiction-competition-results\/\">here<\/a> and will appear in the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again to our four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2026-microfiction-judges\/\">judges<\/a>: Joanna Campbell, Debra A. Daniel, Emily Devane and David Swann<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations again to all our prize-winning and highly commended authors, and to all those who were shortlisted. And, a big thank you to everyone who entered this year\u2019s competition and trusted us with their stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the results are in! Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title): First Prize: \u2018The Universe Expands Her World Contracts\u2019 by Nan Wigington Second Prize: \u2018How Knees Learn\u2019 by M.M. Bailey Joint Third Prize: \u2018The Things It Wasn\u2019t\u2019 by Alison Wassell Joint Third Prize: \u2018Two Seismologists Share a &#8230; <a title=\"National Flash Fiction Day 2026 Microfiction Competition Results\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/national-flash-fiction-day-2026-microfiction-competition-results\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about National Flash Fiction Day 2026 Microfiction Competition Results\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}