Queen’s Ferry Press is pleased to announce the debut of the first contemporary anthology to compile the best short hybrid fiction in a calendar year. To date, there is no annual print recognition of the best examples of this exciting new work appearing in literary journals and story collections from throughout the world. With this new annual, we seek to promote the seasoned writer as well as the new writer in a compilation that will reveal the depth of literary fiction and highlight historical trends as they occur due to world events and human considerations. The Best Small Fictions is a brief, affordable, yet powerful reader that will supplement instructors’ current classroom anthologies and texts and will offer writers and readers examples of what their contemporaries are achieving worldwide.

Both traditional and experimental works are encouraged.

Series Editor: Tara L. Masih

Guest Editor: Robert Olen Butler

International Closing Date: January 16, 2015

Word count: 6-1000

Finalists will be acknowledged.

For full anthology details and nomination guidelines, click here.