Newark Academy recently held its third annual Flash Fiction Contest, which welcomes students’ creative submissions of 500 words or fewer. The judges – all published writers in NA’s orbit – recognize the following students as winners of the 2024 competition:
First Place: “Lucifer” by Yulin Tang
Second Place: “The Bench” by Ambika Sharma
Third Place: a tie between “Snowballing” by Alix Fliegler and “Valedictorian” by Olivia Palker.
Honorable Mentions:
“Emmanuel” by Isadora Martinez
“A Cup of Green Tea” by Aadit Shrivastava
Some other category winners:
Best Speculative Fiction: “The Tree” by Sarah Zucker
Best Horror Fiction: “The Fly’s Man” by Sophie Hu
Best Fantasy Fiction: “Gray” by Chrissy Silva
You can read pieces by Yulin, Ambika, Alix, and Olivia by clicking the hyperlinked titles of their works. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did — we loved them!