Winners will be announced by August 31, 2022
The print anthology will be published
on or before December 1, 2022
Still Time to Enter the
2022 Dillydoun Short Story Prize
Closing October 2
Please join us in congratulating the authors who made the
2022 Dillydoun Flash Fiction Prize Longlist
(alphabetical order)
Ann Barker
Growing Old in Izamal
Penelope Bliss
Lighting the Way
Emma Brankin
Run
Jane Breen
The Deadest Thing Alive
Phoebe Brueckner
A Wee Hannah Tale
Eric Cheung
This is Not Rock Bottom
Noah Cohen-Greenberg
The Little Doll
Lisa Cox
Glazed Over
John Dolan
Forgiveness
Blake Donaldson
It’s Time
Ilene Dube
Return Visit
Rose Eggert
Truth or Consequences
Joshua Evans
The Eye of the Storm
Paul Germano
Faculty Lounge
Geoffrey Graves
The Happiest Ever After
Stephen Haines
Labyrinth
Carolina Hamilton
The Wait
Porter Huddleston
A Letting of Violet
Melinda Keathley
A Solution
Greg Klerkx
Paul’s Walk
Debbie Koenig
You Didn’t Ask for This
BV Lawson
Chrysalis
Paul Luikart
Coop and Louie
Megan Mann
Crime Pays
Kevin McIlvoy
To Be Opened in the Event Of
Eric Morris
Studio Apartment-Warming
Pahasa Mu
Charlie Knipper Takes a Tumble
Caswell T. Munjas
The Retreat
Donna Obeid
Paraiso
Heather Osoy
Nourishment
Erika Paterson
The Button Basket
Elaine Pigeon
Down the Metro
Paloma M Quevedo
Suiza: Invierno 1973
Kevin Joseph Reigle
Everclear Nirvana
David Restaino
Light Pollution
Elyse Ribbons
Fertile Poetry
Mehnaz Sahibzada
Crashing
A.R. Salandy
My Friend the Atheist, Ethereal Illusions, Inner Deception
Kevin Sandefur
Swimming in the Late Hereafter
Winslow Schmelling
Found Grocery List
Alan Sincic
Not For Maggie
Byron Spooner
Recovery Room
Mary Switalski
A Clean Horizon
Maggie Valley
Strange Beginnings Stranger Endings
Francis Walsh
The Light
George Wehrfritz
A Very Barthelme Christmas
Paul Weidknecht
Leviathan
Vironika Wilde
Parasitic
Isabel Wolfe-Frischman
Rosalyn
Cash Prizes
1st Place – $2,000
2nd Place – $1,000
3rd Place – $500
Honorable Mentions – $50
All winners and honorable mentions will be published in the print anthology,
and will receive one (1) free contributor copy.
All other entries will be considered for publication in a TDR Issue or TDR Daily. All TDR publications are considered at the end of the year for our Best of the Best print anthology. The writer has the right to refuse this offer of publication.
Looking forward to reading the entrants who made your lists! Exciting! The titles alone are enticing. Makes me want to keep trying…and I shall. Thanks for your consideration.