Results for the 2023 PNM Flash Fiction Prize

The following three stories were selected from all of this year’s entries and will be published in Issue 251 of Prime Number Magazine on January 1, 2024. Thank you to everyone who entered this competition.

First Prize ($251): “Losing It” by Matt McBride of Spain

Second Prize ($151): “Last Night in Halifax” by Danila Botha of Canada

Third Prize ($53): “So Sings the Washing Machine” by Wendy K. Mages of Connecticut, USA

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Open Every Year June 1 - July 31

Entries are now closed. The results will be posted here on or before October 1.
Thank you to everyone who sent us your flash fiction.

Open to writers around the world 18 years of age and older!

Entries accepted online only through Submittable

Reading fee is $11 US (a prime number)

Stories should be no longer than 751 words (a prime number)

Prizes awarded to top three stories as judged by the editors of Press 53 and Prime Number Magazine: $251, $151, $53 (yep, prime numbers)

Winning stories will be published in Issue 251 of Prime Number Magazine on January 1, 2024 (this is different than stated in our Poets & Writers magazine classified ad. Our apologies.)

Prizes will be awarded upon publication.

Winners announced by October 1, 2023.

Complete guidelines and link to enter at Submittable

Past Winners!

2022: First Prize ($251) “Count-Down” by Alan Sincic; Second Prize ($151) “We the Girls, We the Boys” by Candice May; Third Prize ($53) “Santuario” by Heather Hobbs

2021: First Prize ($251) ”Hidden Places” by Jaime Greenberg; Second Prize ($151) “The Fading” by Noah Evan Wilson; Third Prize ($53) “The Breakup” by Melissa Rosato

2020: First Prize ($251): “Meth Gators” by Epiphany Ferrell; Second Prize ($151): “So Moved” by Curtis VanDonkelaar; Third Prize ($53): “Vibrations” by John Badura

prime number

: any integer other than 0 or ± 1 that is not divisible without remainder by any other integers except ± 1 and ± the integer itself (Merriam-Webster's Dictionary)

In literature: poetry and prose that is distinctive and unique (Prime Number Magazine)

Prime Number Magazine is a Press 53 publication, founded by Clifford Garstang and Kevin Morgan Watson on July 17, 2010, beginning with Issue 2, and following with all issues in prime numbers.