Best Small Fictions 2025

We are bursting with excitement to share that Claudia Monpere’s flash, “Girl Locks,” and Ayotola Tehingbola’s flash, “Sister, Sister,” both published in Split Lip Magazine, have been selected for Best Small Fictions 2025! Congratulations Claudia and Ayotola! 


We also want to congratulate our other contributors and staff who were selected for the anthology: 

  • “NASA Plays I’ll Be Seeing You Trying to Wake the Mars Rover” by Chloe N. Clark / Banshee Press

  • “Some Guilty Pleasures on This Side of the Border” by Moisés R. Delgado / Craft

  • “Lottery” by Scott Garson / Centaur

  • “Ledge (Ars Poetica) (Love Poem) (True Story)” by Amorak Huey / The Cincinnati Review

  • “A Day in the Zoo” by Brianna Johnson / Emerge Literary Journal

  • “Family Night” by Ani King / SmokeLong Quarterly

  • “Horsebroken” by Meg Pokrass / Fractured Lit

  • “Always Tomorrow” by Cathy Ulrich / MoonPark Review

  • “Layered House” by Lucy Zhang / -Ette Review

  • “Heads” by Tina S. Zhu / Cease, Cows

We’re so proud of all of you!

SLM