The Gover Flash Fiction Prize, one of two prizes named after author Robert Gover, awards an annual cash prize ($250) and publication in Best New Writing for the the best flash fiction under 500 words. Finalists are also published in Best New Writing. Please use our submission portal to enter your work.

Gover Flash Fiction Prize Winners

2017 - What Home Will Look Like When We Return by Kat Gonso

2016 - We Were Those Girls by T.L. Sherwood

2015 - Fatherland by Gary Powell

2014 - The Sound of Things by Janelle Garcia

Gover Flash Fiction Prize Short List

2017

Breathless by Rana Reslan
What Home Will Look Like When We Return by Kat Gonso

2016

A Man with a Millstone Around His Neck by Christine Lind
Chekhov's Cats by Melora Wolff
We Were Those Girls by T. L. Sherwood

2015

Fatherland by Gary Powell
The Apple by Elizabeth King
Through the Open Window by Paul Weidknecht

2014

Perception by Thomas Parker
The Sound of Things by Janelle Garcia
Wicicilia by Melissa Fletcher