Anika Carpenter
  • Home
  • Flash Fiction
  • Projects
  • Workshops
    • 1 Flash Month
    • CWFG Courses and Workshops
    • Editing Sweets
  • Contact
Stories Published Online

How We Celebrate Being Understood ∣ Free Flash Fiction ∣ 2022

The Blunt Scissor's Seventy-Fifth Job Interview
 ∣ Paragraph Planet ∣ 2022

Let Me Tell You What Nathan Needs ∣ Many Nice Donkeys ∣ 2022

The Truth Behind Hailey's Arachnophobia ∣ Ellipsis Zine ∣ 2021

I DON'T WANT DENTURES ∣ Janus Literary ∣ 2021

Last Night with the Stoatman ∣ National Flash Fiction Day, Flash Flood ∣ 2021


Recovery ∣ Autumn Reflex Flash Fiction Competition ∣ 2020

O Tannenbaum ∣ Weird Xmas Flash Fiction Contest ∣ 2020

Refashioning Another Clumsy Gift from My Mother Into Something I Really Want ∣ National Flash Fiction Day, Flash Flood ∣ 2020

It Wasn't a Black Dog, It Was Never a Black Dog ∣ The Molotov Cocktail Flash Monster ∣ 2019

The Kids Built Me a Roadside Memorial ∣ 
Reflex Fiction Summer Competition, Longlist ∣ 2019

What Gets Left Behind ∣ Reflex Fiction Summer Competition, Longlist ∣ 2019

Visits to the Archive of Obsolete Sounds ∣ Ellipsis Zine ∣ 2019

Lineage ∣ 101 Fiction: Maps ∣ 2019

The Grieving Gallery Attendant is Going to Quit ∣ The TSS Flash Fiction 400 (Winter, 2018) Winner ∣ 2018

Sam's Strategy to Get All of the Duvet ∣ BIFFY50 Microfiction Contest (autumn), Runner-Up ∣ 2018


Long and Short-listed Stories

Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize 
∣ Longlist ∣ 2021
 
Fifteenth Bath Flash Fiction Award 
∣ Shortlist ∣ 2020

Last Night with the Stoat Man ∣ Thirteenth Bath Flash Fiction Award, Longlist ∣ 2020

Bridport Flash Fiction Prize ∣ Shortlist ∣ 2019 

Uki Survives on Scraps from the Fish Market ∣ TSS Flash Fiction 400 Shortlisted ∣ 2019

Dad Your Name Means Brave ∣ The TSS Flash Fiction 400 (Winter, 2018), Shortlist ∣ 2018

Alice Takes Them Out at Cousin Betty's Wedding ∣ Tenth Bath Flash Fiction Award,  Longlist ∣ 2018
​
I Was a Sparrow Once ∣ Reader's Digest 100-word Story Competition, Shortlist 
∣ 2017

Nominations

Flash Flood ∣ Pushcart Prize Award Nominee ∣ 2020

Tip ∣ Reflex Fiction Autumn Competition, Longlist Nominated by Reflex for Best Small Fictions Anthology, 2019

Stories in Print

The Day I Stopped Having Unsatisfactory Relationships ∣ The Hungry Ghosts Magazine: Issue Two ∣ 2021

How My Best Friend Helped Me Grieve My Parents ∣ Wrong Way Go Back Pure Slush Vol. 19 ∣ 2020

Empathy ∣ VSS365 Anthology ∣ 2019

Half a Mile from Home ∣ National Flash Fiction Day Anthology  ∣ 2019

  • Home
  • Flash Fiction
  • Projects
  • Workshops
    • 1 Flash Month
    • CWFG Courses and Workshops
    • Editing Sweets
  • Contact