New Flash Fiction Books

Disclaimer: Vestal Review does not have access to the books themselves but simply has received notice of publication. Though we do check with the publishers, that’s as far as we go.

Disclaimer: Vestal Review does not have access to the books themselves but simply has received notice of publication. Though we do check with the publishers, that’s as far as we go.

  • Gatherings

    Mehreen Ahmed
    Bridge House Publishing, 2021
    280 pp.

  • GrassBleed

    Mehreen Ahmed
    Mindfield Publishing, 2021
    96 pp.

  • Seedlings

    Mehreen Ahmed
    Alien Buddha Press, 2024
    101 pp.

  • They Move Away Like Waves

    Mehreen Ahmed
    Impspired Magazine, 2022
    272 pp.

  • White Moon

    Mehreen Ahmed
    Bridge House Publishing, 2025
    203 pp.

  • Furtive Glimpses: Flash Fiction from The Arab World

    Essam M. Al-Jassim
    White Falcon Publishing, 2023
    314 pp.

  • Mango Pickle in summer & other stories

    Swetha Amit
    Alien Buddha Press, 2024
    54 pp.

  • We Fade With Time

    Mileva Anastasiadou
    Alien Buddha Press, 2022
    93 pp.

  • The Bones of the Story

    Sandra Arnold
    Impspired, 2023
    43 pp.

  • Ambrotypes

    Amy Cipolla Barnes
    Word West, 2022
    142 pp.

  • Child Craft

    Amy Cipolla Barnes
    Belle Pointe Press, 2023
    122 pp.

  • Heart and Salt

    Elaina Battista-Parsons
    Vine Leaves Press, 2023
    113 pp.

  • 50 Give or Take Anthology #1

    Jessica Bell and Elaina Battista-Parsons
    Vine Leaves Press, 2021
    380 pp.

  • 50 Give or Take Anthology #2

    Jessica Bell and Elaina Battista-Parsons
    Vine Leaves Press, 2022
    380 pp.

  • 50 Give or Take Anthology #3

    Jessica Bell and Elaina Battista-Parsons
    Vine Leaves Press, 2023
    192 pp.

  • A Box of Dreams

    Denis Bell
    Luchador Press, 2024
    150 pp.

  • 48 Blitz

    Brett Biebel
    Split/Lip Press 2020
    148 pp.

  • Winter Dance Party

    Brett Biebel
    Alternating Current Press, 2023
    151 pp.

  • In Rare Cases and Other Unfortunate Circumstances

    Coleman Bigelow
    Alien Buddha Press, 2023
    51 pp.

  • Love at the End of the World

    Lindy Biller
    The Masters Review, 2023
    52 pp

  • Positive and Negative

    Nick Black
    Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022
    152 pp.

  • The World in an Eye

    Maroula Blades
    Chapeltown Books, 2020
    74 pp.

  • Pineville Trace

    Wes Blake
    Etchings Press, 2024
    138 pp.

  • Bell and Light

    Jessica Bonder
    Galileo Press, 2020
    23 pp.

  • Kahi and Lua: Tales of the First and the Second

    Melissa Llanes Brownlee
    Alien Buddha Press, 2022
    39 pp.

  • The Potential of Radio and Rain

    Myna Chang
    CutBank Books, 2023
    51 pp.

  • To Say Nothing of the Dog: Flash Fiction

    James Roderick Burns
    Cyberwit, 2023
    153 pp.

  • Some Days are Better than Ours: A Collection of Tragedies

    Barbara Byar
    Reflex Press, 2019
    112 pp.

  • Morsels of Purple

    Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
    Alien Buddha Press, 2021
    150 pp.

  • The Fermi Paradox

    Courtney Clute
    Alien Buddha Press, 2022
    51 pp.

  • Know The Mother

    Desiree Cooper
    Wayne State University Press, 2016
    112 pp.

  • Now You See Him

    Tim Craig
    Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022
    90 pp.

  • Heartland Calamitous

    Michael Credico
    Autumn House Press, 2020
    128 pp.

  • Following the Current of My Ocean

    Lu­sa D’Araujo
    Chiado Books, 2021
    186 pp.

  • Hollows

    Tommy Dean
    Alternating Current Press, 2022
    162 pp.

  • Fables of the Deconstruction

    Damian Dressick
    Clash Books, 2021
    169 pp.

  • Arrangement

    Merridawn Duckler
    Southernmost Books, 2024
    123 pp.

  • Cunning, Baffling, Powerful

    Sean Ennis
    Thirty West Publishing House, 2023
    50 pp.

  • The Hell In Bramble

    Sean Ennis
    Bottlecap Press, 2024
    30 pp.

  • Wannabe

    Adele Evershed
    Alien Buddha Press, 2023
    65 pp.

  • Pass the Panpharmacon!

    Jon Fain
    Greying Ghost Press, 2023
    28 pp.

  • Light Reflection Over Blues

    Avital Gad-Cykman
    Ravenna Press, 2023
    151 pp.

  • You'll Never Find Another

    Lydia Gwyn
    Matter Press, 2021
    95 pp.

  • Americana: Stories

    Bill Hemmig
    Read Friendly, 2023
    110 pp.

  • The Evolution of Birds

    Sara Hills
    Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021
    136 pp.

  • Small Moods

    Shane Kowalski
    Future Tense Books, 2022
    154 pp.

  • Orenda

    Shalaka Kulkarni
    Notion Press, 2021
    160 pp.

  • Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted

    Kathryn Kulpa
    New Rivers Press, 2023
    51 pp.

  • Acid in Georgia

    Jasmine Ledesma
    Bottlecap Press, 2023
    32 pp.

  • Maybe This is What I Deserve

    Tucker Leighty-Phillips
    Split/Lip Press, 2023
    48 pp.

  • Let Me Think: Stories

    J. Robert Lennon
    Graywolf Press, 2021
    256 pp.

  • Directory

    Christopher Linforth
    Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2020
    80 pp.

  • The Origin of Doubt

    Nathan Alling Long
    Press 53, 2018
    150 pp.

  • Occupations

    Anna Mantzaris
    Galileo Press, 2024
    72 pp.

  • Tender Cuts

    Jayne Martin
    Vine Leaves Press, 2019
    89 pp.

  • Automatically Hip

    John McCaffrey
    Vine Leaves Press, 2022
    105 pp.

  • Burning All the Time

    Christopher Murphy
    Mongrel Empire Press, 2021
    96 pp.

  • Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose

    Jefferson Navicky
    Deerbrook Editions, 2021
    106 pp.

  • Girls Who Don't Cry

    Mandira Pattnaik
    Alien Buddha Press, 2023
    77 pp.

  • Where We Set Our Easel

    Mandira Pattnaik
    Stanchion Books, 2023
    40 pp.

  • Best Microfiction 2023

    Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke
    Small Press Distribution, Baker & Taylor, Bertrams, 2023
    208 pp.

  • First Law of Holes

    Meg Pokrass
    Dzanc Books, 2024
    251 pp.

  • Kissing the Monster Hunter

    Meg Pokrass
    Bamboo Dart Press, 2023
    48 pp.

  • Spinning to Mars

    Meg Pokrass
    Blue Light Press, 2021
    78 pp.

  • Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them

    Keith J. Powell
    ELJ Editions, 2024
    37 pp.

  • Dot And Other Flashes

    Marzia Rahman
    The Antonym Collection, 2023
    68 pp.

  • If Not For You

    Niles Reddick
    Big Table, 2022
    136 pp.

  • Who's Going to Pray for Me Now?

    Niles Reddick
    Big Table Publishing, 2024
    123 pp/

  • Death and Other Survival Strategies

    Carolyn R. Russell
    Vine Leaves Press, 2023
    144 pp.

  • The Anchored World

    Jasmine Sawers
    Rose Metal Press, 2022
    88 pp.

  • The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings

    Karen Schauber, editor
    Heritage House, 2019
    112 pp.

  • What Are The Chances?

    Robert Scotellaro
    Press 53, 2020
    134 pp.

  • Wolfsong

    Kathryn Silver-Hajo
    ELJ Editions, 2023
    76 pp.

  • Everything is Totally Fine

    Zac Smith
    Muumuu House, 2022
    152 pp.

  • Breaking Points

    Chelsea Stickle
    Black Lawrence Press, 2021
    44 pp.

  • Everything's Changing

    Chelsea Stickle
    Thirty West Publishing House, 2023
    37 pp.

  • Blood Histories

    Tara Stillions Whitehead
    Galileo Press, 2021
    32 pp.

  • Snapshots: Short Stories

    Don Tassone
    Adelaide Books, 2021
    176 pp.

  • How High—That High?

    Diane Williams
    Soho Press, 2021
    128 pp.

  • Death, Desire, and Other Destinations

    Tara Isabel Zambrano
    Okay Donkey Press, 2020
    200 pp.

  • Absorption

    Lucy Zhang
    Harbor Review, 2022
    eBook, no pagination

  • Hollowed

    Lucy Zhang
    Thirty West Publishing House, 2022
    30 pp.

  • Fiction Kitchen Berlin: An Anthology of Weird and Wonderful Fiction

    48 different authors
    Fiction Kitchen Berlin, 2023
    153 pp.

  • Plumes & Other Flights of Fancy in Flash Fiction

    Andrena Zawinski
    Writing Knights Press, 2022
    66 pp.