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: 2019 Issue.
Flash 405: 2019 Issue
February 2019: “Happily Ever After”
Guest Judge:
Maureen Lee Lenker
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments
1st Place: Eros(ive) by Brooke Seipel (Poetry)
2nd Place: Goodnight by Jason Nadler (Fiction)
Honorable Mention:
Glow by Lyndsie Manusos (Fiction)
Wall by Charlene Moskal (Experimental)
on a street in kowloon… by Bobby Wilson (Experimenta)
April 2019: “Magic & Myth”
Judge:
Jessica June Rowe
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments
1st Place: Three Demi-Gods in Brooklyn by Laylage Courie (Experimental Script)
2nd Place: Einherjar by Kevin Flanagan (Fiction)
Honorable Mention:
Oracle by Melissa Cannon (Poetry)
Teething by Rachel Richardson (Fiction)
Pyrite by Maria Zoccola (Fiction)
June 2019: “Legacy”
Judge:
CD Eskilson
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments
1st Place: The Ride is the Line Itself by Brook McClurg (Nonfiction)
2nd Place: Morbid Curiosity by Summer Awad (Poetry)
Honorable Mention:
Remember Sylvia by Becky Lee (Poetry)
Smitty’s Mom by Stephen Toskar (Fiction)
August 2019: “Underneath the Words”
Guest Judge:
Nancy Au
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments
1st Place: Stranger, Brother, Stranger by Sionnain Buckley (Nonfiction)
2nd Place: Mimesis by Maylin Tu (Nonfiction)
Honorable Mention:
Alice is 307 Years Old by Olivia Kingery (Fiction)