Flash 405: 2017 Issue

 

Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners. To celebrate these award-winning works, we’ve collected them together in our Flash 405: 2017 Issue.


 

Flash 405: 2017 Issue

Flash 405 Contest Rules

 

February 2017: “Monster”

Judge:
Lauren Gorski
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments

1st Place: The Clinking of Coins by Chelsea Sutton (Fiction)
2nd Place: It’s Really Sad by Cathy Baker (Fiction)

Honorable Mention:
Before The Splintering by Ellen Devlin (Poetry)
Triptych by Jillian Kovach (Nonfiction)
DMV by Bobby Wilson (Screenplay)

 

April 2017: “Shangri-La”

Guest Judge:
Trinie Dalton
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments

1st Place: Mission to Mars by Linda Willing (Fiction)
2nd Place: Evan’s Essence by Guy Biederman (Fiction)

Honorable Mention:
Charcoal by Michael Harris Cohen (Fiction)
Notopia by Keri Culver (Nonfiction)
Lizard People and Me by Jason Dennis (Fiction)

 

June 2017: “Nemesis”

Judge:
Laura Rensing
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments

1st Place: Conquests by Amir Safi (Poetry)
2nd Place: Gillead by Ava Bergen (Fiction)

Honorable Mention:
Debate by Joanna Bettelheim (Nonfiction)
How to Play Hockey with Men by Roxanne Geti (Fiction)
Abeeku by Joan Slatoff (Fiction)

 

August 2017: “Blue”

Guest Judge:
David Lott and Michele Raphael
(Angels Flight • literary west)

About the Theme | Judge’s Comments

1st Place: Favorites by Cayce Osborne (Fiction)
2nd Place: Crisis Management by Emma Musty (Nonfiction)

Honorable Mention:
Ricky-Jay Meets Pain by Neal Adelman (Stageplay)
Lighting the Stove by Megan Merchant (Poetry)
Lightning Bugs by Eric Andrew Newman (Fiction)

 


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