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Best Women's Short Fiction 2023 - ebook

Best Women's Short Fiction 2023 - ebook

Best Women's Short Fiction 2023 showcases the entire shortlist from our Short Story and Flash Fiction competitions: a total of 24 extraordinary narratives.

Our third annual Best Women's Short Fiction anthology showcases 12 prizewinning flash fictions short stories from women writers around the world. These stories were shortlisted for the 2023 Mslexia Short Story and Flash Fiction competitions.

'They were all stories whose images haunted me; I came back to them again and again.' – Deborah Moggach

'The diversity of the stories explodes the myth that there's a formula for holding a judge's attention.' – Tania Hershman

Featuring: Elen Lewis, Amy Lord, Lucy Beevor, Morgaine Davidson, Colette Coen, Lauren Collett, Colette Paul, Robyn Fraser, Erini Loucaides, Sally Oldfield, Maria Jackson, Claudia Downs, Manu St. Thomas, Sandra Hirons, Jennifer Sinclair Roberts, Claire Williams, Lucienne Cummings, Melanie Henderson, Rosaleen Lynch, Lucy Peters, Lydia Clark, Hannah Retallick, Natasha Geraldine, Jennifer Steil

How to download:

Once you've purchased the anthology, you'll be taken to an on-screen confirmation page; to download, please scroll down until you see a section marked 'your downloads' and click the 'download' icon. To download at a later date, please create or login to your Mslexia account before, or during, the checkout process. 

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