New Flash Fiction Books
We list flash fiction collections after 2020. This page is organized by year. Within each year, the books are ordered alphabetically by the author or editor’s last name.
Disclaimer: Vestal Review does not have access to the books themselves but simply has received notice of publication. Though we do verify its publication date and publishers, we have not necessarily read the books’ contents.
2025
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Sailing Paper Boats & Other Stories
Swetha Amit
Alien Buddha Press, 2025
47 pp. -
White Moon
Mehreen Ahmed
Bridge House Publishing, 2025
203 pp. -
Cold Toast
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
Dahlia Publishing, 2025
66 pp. -
All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury
Mario Aliberto III
Chestnut Review, 2025
45 pp. -
The Pillow Museum
Claire Bateman
FC2 (University of Alabama Press), 2025
200 pp. -
Sum of her PARTS
Laura Besley
V. Press, 2025
36 pp. -
Pardon Me for Moonwalking
Patricia Q. Bidar
Unsolicited Press, 2025
188 pp. -
The Girl with the Black Lipstick
Mary Biddinger
Black Lawrence Press, 2025
118 pp. -
Man's Best Friends
Coleman Bigelow
Alien Buddha Press, 2025
57 pp. -
Five Stories
Travis Flatt
Sand and Gravel Press, 2025
34 pp. -
I Have Not Considered Consequences
Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press, 2025
196 pp. -
Eve the Inventor
Karen Greenbaum-Maya
Bamboo Dart Press, 2025
40 pp. -
Wolfbaby
Susan Holcomb
The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2025
68 pp. -
Disgust
Lorette C. Luzajic
Cyberwit Books/Taj Mahal Books 2025
244 pp. -
The Lives of the Dead
Fiona McKay
Ad Hoc Fiction, 2025
108 pp. -
Old Girls and Palm Trees
Meg Pokrass
Bamboo Dart Press, 2025
66 pp. -
Best Microfiction 2025
Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, Dawn Raffel (editors)
Pelekinesis, 2025
198 pp. -
Flash Fiction Writing Tips: Penned by Masterful Flash Writers From Around The Globe
Karen Schauber
Vancouver Flash Fiction, 2025
322 pp. -
From the Book of Atmospheres
Robert Scotellaro
Bamboo Dart Press, 2025
52 pp. -
A Blue Hour
Joel Tomfohr
Bottlecap Press, 2025
25 pp. -
The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe
Lauren D. Woods
Autumn House Press, 2025
176 pp.
2024
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Seedlings
Mehreen Ahmed
Alien Buddha Press, 2024
101 pp. -
Mango Pickle in summer & other stories
Swetha Amit
Alien Buddha Press, 2024
54 pp. -
A Box of Dreams
Denis Bell
Luchador Press, 2024
150 pp. -
(Un)Natural Elements
Laura Besley
Downingfield Press, 2024
60 pp. -
Pineville Trace
Wes Blake
Etchings Press, 2024
138 pp. -
Before. During. After.
Philip Charter
Pelekinesis, 2024
138 pp. -
Everything Happens to Me
Peter Cherches
Pelekinesis, 2024
218 pp. -
Arrangement
Merridawn Duckler
Southernmost Books, 2024
123 pp. -
The Hell In Bramble
Sean Ennis
Bottlecap Press, 2024
30 pp. -
The History of the Baker’s Dozen
Gary Fincke
Pelekinesis, 2024
222 pp. -
Broken Signals
Jeff Friedman
Bamboo Dart Press, 2024
54 pp. -
Occupations
Anna Mantzaris
Galileo Press, 2024
72 pp. -
First Law of Holes
Meg Pokrass
Dzanc Books, 2024
251 pp. -
Best Microfiction 2024
Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, Grant Faulkner (editors)
Pelekinesis, 2024
196 pp. -
Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them
Keith J. Powell
ELJ Editions, 2024
37 pp. -
Who's Going to Pray for Me Now?
Niles Reddick
Big Table Publishing, 2024
123 pp.
2023
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Furtive Glimpses: Flash Fiction from The Arab World
Essam M. Al-Jassim
White Falcon Publishing, 2023
314 pp. -
The Bones of the Story
Sandra Arnold
Impspired, 2023
43 pp. -
Child Craft
Amy Cipolla Barnes
Belle Pointe Press, 2023
122 pp. -
Heart and Salt
Elaina Battista-Parsons
Vine Leaves Press, 2023
113 pp. -
50 Give or Take Anthology #3
Jessica Bell and Elaina Battista-Parsons
Vine Leaves Press, 2023
192 pp. -
Winter Dance Party
Brett Biebel
Alternating Current Press, 2023
151 pp. -
In Rare Cases and Other Unfortunate Circumstances
Coleman Bigelow
Alien Buddha Press, 2023
51 pp. -
Love at the End of the World
Lindy Biller
The Masters Review, 2023
52 pp -
The Potential of Radio and Rain
Myna Chang
CutBank Books, 2023
51 pp. -
To Say Nothing of the Dog: Flash Fiction
James Roderick Burns
Cyberwit, 2023
153 pp. -
Things
Peter Cherches
Bamboo Dart Press, 2023
60 pp. -
Cunning, Baffling, Powerful
Sean Ennis
Thirty West Publishing House, 2023
50 pp. -
Pass the Panpharmacon!
Jon Fain
Greying Ghost Press, 2023
28 pp. -
Light Reflection Over Blues
Avital Gad-Cykman
Ravenna Press, 2023
151 pp. -
Americana: Stories
Bill Hemmig
Read Friendly, 2023
110 pp. -
Bodies in Recline
Michael C. Keith
Pelekinesis, 2023
127 pp. -
Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted
Kathryn Kulpa
New Rivers Press, 2023
51 pp. -
Acid in Georgia
Jasmine Ledesma
Bottlecap Press, 2023
32 pp. -
Maybe This is What I Deserve
Tucker Leighty-Phillips
Split/Lip Press, 2023
48 pp. -
Girls Who Don't Cry
Mandira Pattnaik
Alien Buddha Press, 2023
77 pp. -
Where We Set Our Easel
Mandira Pattnaik
Stanchion Books, 2023
40 pp. -
Best Microfiction 2023
Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke
Small Press Distribution, Baker & Taylor, Bertrams, 2023
208 pp. -
Kissing the Monster Hunter
Meg Pokrass
Bamboo Dart Press, 2023
48 pp. -
Dot And Other Flashes
Marzia Rahman
The Antonym Collection, 2023
68 pp. -
Presto
Charles Rammelkamp
Bamboo Dart Press, 2023
70 pp. -
Death and Other Survival Strategies
Carolyn R. Russell
Vine Leaves Press, 2023
144 pp. -
Wolfsong
Kathryn Silver-Hajo
ELJ Editions, 2023
76 pp. -
Everything's Changing
Chelsea Stickle
Thirty West Publishing House, 2023
37 pp. -
Fiction Kitchen Berlin: An Anthology of Weird and Wonderful Fiction
48 different authors
Fiction Kitchen Berlin, 2023
153 pp.
2022
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They Move Away Like Waves
Mehreen Ahmed
Impspired Magazine, 2022
272 pp. -
We Fade With Time
Mileva Anastasiadou
Alien Buddha Press, 2022
93 pp. -
Ambrotypes
Amy Cipolla Barnes
Word West, 2022
142 pp. -
Positive and Negative
Nick Black
Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022
152 pp. -
Kahi and Lua: Tales of the First and the Second
Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Alien Buddha Press, 2022
39 pp. -
Masks: Stories from a Pandemic
Peter Cherches
Bamboo Dart Press, 2022
46 pp. -
The Fermi Paradox
Courtney Clute
Alien Buddha Press, 2022
51 pp. -
Now You See Him
Tim Craig
Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022
90 pp. -
Hollows
Tommy Dean
Alternating Current Press, 2022
162 pp. -
The Corridors of Longing
Gary Fincke
Pelekinesis, 2022
216 pp. -
Small Moods
Shane Kowalski
Future Tense Books, 2022
154 pp. -
Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood
Michael Loveday
Bamboo Dart Press, 2022
48 pp. -
Automatically Hip
John McCaffrey
Vine Leaves Press, 2022
105 pp. -
The House of Grana Padano
Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman
Pelekinesis, 2022
138 pp. -
Best Microfiction 2022
Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, Tania Hershman (editors)
Pelekinesis, 2022
236 pp. -
If Not For You
Niles Reddick
Big Table, 2022
136 pp. -
The Anchored World
Jasmine Sawers
Rose Metal Press, 2022
88 pp. -
Everything is Totally Fine
Zac Smith
Muumuu House, 2022
152 pp. -
God in a Can
Robert Scotellaro
Bamboo Dart Press, 2022
54 pp. -
Absorption
Lucy Zhang
Harbor Review, 2022
eBook, no pagination -
Hollowed
Lucy Zhang
Thirty West Publishing House, 2022
30 pp. -
Plumes & Other Flights of Fancy in Flash Fiction
Andrena Zawinski
Writing Knights Press, 2022
66 pp.
2021
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GrassBleed
Mehreen Ahmed
Mindfield Publishing, 2021
96 pp. -
50 Give or Take Anthology #1
Jessica Bell and Elaina Battista-Parsons
Vine Leaves Press, 2021
380 pp. -
100neHundred
Laura Besley
Arachne Press, 2021
112 pp. -
Morsels of Purple
Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Alien Buddha Press, 2021
150 pp. -
Tracks: Memoirs from a Life with Music
Peter Cherches
Bamboo Dart Press, 2021
66 pp. -
Following the Current of My Ocean
Lusa D’Araujo
Chiado Books, 2021
186 pp. -
Fables of the Deconstruction
Damian Dressick
Clash Books, 2021
169 pp. -
You'll Never Find Another
Lydia Gwyn
Matter Press, 2021
95 pp. -
The Evolution of Birds
Sara Hills
Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021
136 pp. -
Orenda
Shalaka Kulkarni
Notion Press, 2021
160 pp. -
Let Me Think: Stories
J. Robert Lennon
Graywolf Press, 2021
256 pp. -
Burning All the Time
Christopher Murphy
Mongrel Empire Press, 2021
96 pp. -
Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose
Jefferson Navicky
Deerbrook Editions, 2021
106 pp. -
Spinning to Mars
Meg Pokrass
Blue Light Press, 2021
78 pp. -
Best Microfiction 2021
Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, Amber Sparks (editors)
Pelekinesis, 2021
235 pp. -
Breaking Points
Chelsea Stickle
Black Lawrence Press, 2021
44 pp. -
Blood Histories
Tara Stillions Whitehead
Galileo Press, 2021
32 pp. -
Snapshots: Short Stories
Don Tassone
Adelaide Books, 2021
176 pp. -
How High—That High?
Diane Williams
Soho Press, 2021
128 pp.
2020
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The Almost Mothers
Laura Besley
Dahlia Books, 2020
60 pp. -
48 Blitz
Brett Biebel
Split/Lip Press 2020
148 pp. -
The World in an Eye
Maroula Blades
Chapeltown Books, 2020
74 pp. -
Bell and Light
Jessica Bonder
Galileo Press, 2020
23 pp. -
Whistler's Mother's Son and Other Curiosities
Peter Cherches
Pelekinesis, 2020
240 pp. -
Heartland Calamitous
Michael Credico
Autumn House Press, 2020
128 pp. -
Directory
Christopher Linforth
Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2020
80 pp. -
What Are The Chances?
Robert Scotellaro
Press 53, 2020
134 pp. -
The Loss Detector
Meg Pokrass
Bamboo Dart Press, 2020
50 pp. -
Best Microfiction 2020
Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, Michael Martone (editors)
Pelekinesis, 2020
210 pp. -
Hold Still Fast
Sean Pravica
Pelekinesis, 2020
220 pp. -
A Modern Way to Die
Peter Wortsman
Pelekinesis, 2020
224 pp. -
Death, Desire, and Other Destinations
Tara Isabel Zambrano
Okay Donkey Press, 2020
200 pp.