Featuring new flash by Michael Martone, Christopher Merkner, Tom Williams, Alissa Nutting, Marcela Fuentes, Dionne Irving Bremyer, Lily Hoang, John Holman, Candace Nadon, Jennifer Howard, Brian Kitely, Margaret Luongo, Matt Sailor, and Jody Brooks.

Congratulations to Claire Guyton, Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, Angela Readman, and all of our finalists.

Featuring new flash by Josh Russell, Tara Isabel Zambrano, Francine Witte, A.E. Weisgerber, Kara Vernor, Anna Vangala Jones, Cathy Ulrich, Joel Streicker, Helen Rye, Arthur Plotnik, Aimee Parkison, Robert Garner McBrearty, Jayne Martin, John Mancini, Craig Loomis, Adam Lock, Sara, Lippmann, Stephanie Hutton, Karen Jones, Eric Bosse, Paul Beckman, Adam Berlin, Craig Fishbane, Jacqueline Doyle, Nikoletta Gjoni, Michael Hammerle, Paul Crenshaw, Joy Allen, Salvatore Difalco, and Dan Crawley.

New flash by Jeff Landon, Robert Shapard, Nancy Stohlman, Angela Readman, Sandra Arnold, Christopher Allen, Jeff Friedman, Justin Herrmann, Ron Burch, Rae Kim, Anne Summerfield, Claire Polders, Carolyn Oliver, MJ McGinn, Clio Velentza, Epiphany Ferrell, Elise Blackwell, James Coffey, Tasha Cotter, Lynne Barrett, and Christopher M. Drew.

New flash by Robert Scotellaro, Jason Jackson, Robert Lopez & Eva Ruiz, Sudha Balagol, Jo Davies, Anita Goveas, C.E. Shue, Stacy Trautwein Burns, Leonora Desar, Tommy Dean, Michelle Ross, Laura Tansley, Traci Skuce, David Galef, and Jacalyn Eis.

New flash fiction by Kathryn Ordiway, Sarah Salway, Fred Muratori, Melanie Márquez Adams, Elaine Chiew, Kim Magowan, Raki Kopernik, Justin Herrmann, Nancy Tingley, Hardy Griffin, Joy Kennedy-O’Neill, James Hartman, and Nod Ghosh.

This special issue collects work published as part of our “Banned CDC Words” feature. The prompt is in response to the fight over seven health-related words the Trump administration instructed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to avoid in its 2019 budget request.

New flash fiction by Gary Fincke, Judy Darley, Sandra Arnold, Daryl Scroggins, Clare MacQueen, Paula Friedman, Frankie McMillan, Rhoda Greaves, Christopher DiCicco, Jonathan Cardew, Colleen Maynard, Tony Eprile, Grace Campbell, Nuala O’Connor, Charles Rafferty, Sharon Eckman, Nicholas Cook, Cari Scribner, Andrew Stancek, Kyle Hemmings, and Pamela Banayoti.

New flash fiction by Gary Fincke, Tree Riesener, Leonard Kress, Melissa Goode, Gary Duncan, Angela Readman, Francine Witte, Erin Lyndal-Martin, Stephen V. Ramey, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Daryl Scroggins, Rhona Millar, Steve Cushman, Jay Merill, Rachel Smith, Danielle Holmes, Diane Simmons, Lynn Pattison, Jacquelyn Bengfort, Jason Jackson, and Whitney Scharer.

New flash work by Jude Higgins, Jane Zingale, Bill Cook, Ania Vesenny, Wendy Oleson, Frankie McMillan, Nicholas Cook, Steven Paul Lansky, Marguerite Floyd, Robert Shapard, Rupert Dastur, Doug Cornett, Lou Beach, and Beverly Jackson.

New prose poetry by Gary Young, Shivani Mehta, Amy Breau, Claire Bateman, Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, David Lehman, Kathleen Nalley, Siel Ju, Kathleen McGookey, Meg Pokrass, Amelia Martens, Matthew Minicucci, Kelli Russell Agodon, Jeff Friedman, and Tom Whalen.

New flash fiction by Nin Andrews, Paul Asta, Margaret Bentley, Nicholas Cook, Ashley Chantler, Kelly Cherry, James Claffey, David James, Cori Jones, Maggie Su, Gail Louise Siegel, Kayla Thomas, and D.R. Wagner.

New flash fiction by Evelyn N. Alfred, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Harper Follansbee, Jr., Steven Paul Lansky, G.L. Morrison, Josip Novakovich, Dawn Raffel, Robert Shapard, and Jennifer Dunn Stewart.

New flash fiction by Cezarija Abartis, Gary Fincke, Jenny Hayes, Tiff Holland, Zac Locke, Margaret Spilman, D.R. Wagner, Leigh Allison Wilson, Sarah Ann Winn, Peter Wortsman, and Michael Shay