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: 2024 Issue.
Flash 405: 2024 Issue
February 2024: “Host”
Judge:
Sam Burt
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments
Winners:
1st Place: Karma Judgment Day by Jaime Gill (Fiction)
2nd Place:Tooth Worm by Salvatore Difalco (Fiction)
Honorable Mentions:
Milk by Alex Brostoff (Nonfiction)
April 2024: “Home”
Guest Judge:
Liza Olson
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments
1st Place: A Curtain Child by Alina Kuvaldina (Fiction)
2nd Place: Kitchen Dancing by Ani King (Fiction)
Honorable Mentions:
We’re Running Through the Sprinklers Again by Michaela Chairez (Nonfiction)
Polite Things by Makenzie Ozycz (Nonfiction)
Eternal Rest by Goldie Peacock (Fiction)
June 2024: “Persona”
Judge:
Madeline Grimm
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments
1st Place: All the Way Home by Sarah Freligh (Fiction)
2nd Place: Old Grief Like Ghosts Rising by Allison Blevins (Nonfiction)
Honorable Mention:
Papel by Andrew Avalos (Fiction)
August 2024: “Otherworldly”
Guest Judge:
Dr. Cecilia Caballero
About the Theme | Judge’s Comments
1st Place: River of Stars by Melissa L. Bennett (Nonfiction)
2nd Place: Chile Season by Lorinda Toledo (Nonfiction)
Honorable Mentions:
El mundo te canta by Ana Maria Mina Hernández (Poetry)
Bruja by MaHo Pita (Fiction)
we are all part of the same estuary by Morgan Ridgway (Fiction)