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"Best of..." Anthologies 2023

With the recent close of what I consider Flash Fiction Award Season, I always have fun tallying up the journals from where all the stories were selected. I know there are a lot of lists out there, but the totals below came from the following four "Best of" lists/anthologies:


Best Small Fictions

Best Microfiction

Best of the Net

Wigleaf Top 50


To clarify, these counts are for fiction only (no poetry or CNF) and also do not include any finalists/longlists. Journals must have had at least 2 stories selected to make this scorecard, and you can also check out last year's count here. Of course it's great to see lot of the same journals we know and love, but it's also fun to see some new names as well!


Lastly, I always like to include the caveat that I don't see this as an objective merit-ranking system in any way. It's simply a fun way to celebrate the authors/stories/journals that were selected, and maybe introduce people to new journals they didn't previously know.





6

The Forge

Ghost Parachute

Pithead Chapel


5

Fractured Lit

Wigleaf


4

Adroit Journal

Atticus Review

beestung

Cease, Cows

Cheap Pop

Cincinnati Review

Citron Review

Electric Lit

Okay Donkey

Pidgeonholes

Split Lip Magazine


3

American Short Fiction

Baltimore Review

Bending Genres

CRAFT

Flash Frog

JMWW

New Flash Fiction Review

New World Writing

Paranoid Tree

South Florida Poetry Journal

trampset

Whale Road Review


2

805 Lit + Art

Apple Valley Review

Atlas + Alice

Bridport

Brittle Paper

Capsule Stories

Cleaver Magazine

Ellipsis Zine

Five South

Flash Frontier

Flashback Fiction

Heavy Feather Review

hex

Lumiere Review

Masters Review

Milk Candy Review

Passages North

Quarterly West

Salt Hill

SmokeLong Quarterly

Stanchion

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