The Write-In 2025: The Complete List

2025 Prompts

•   NFFD 2025 Prompt #1: Two Seasons 
•   NFFD 2025 Prompt #2: Hunting Season 
•   NFFD 2025 Prompt #3: Seasons of Love 
•   NFFD 2025 Prompt #4: Off Season 
•   NFFD 2025 Prompt #5: Open Season  

 

2025 Responses 

• 'A Misunderstanding' by Liz Barclay 
• 'The Season of Balsam Flower Dyeing' by Heain Joung 
• 'Riches' by Emily Macdonald 
• 'If it Ain't Right, it Must Be Left' by Lisa H. Owens 
• 'Diary Entries from 2025' by Mina Otsuka 
• 'Seven-Foot Bicentenarian Yearns for his Ticker' by David Lewis 
• 'The Price of Bread' by Jane Claire Jackson 
• 'Mr September through December. Mr January to March' by Karen Walker 
• 'Finding Fire' by Alice Monro 
• 'Old Spice' by Rachel Burrows 
• 'Cocktails at the end of the world hotel' by Jack Morris 
• 'All The Warm Things' by Chloe Paige 
• 'From way back in 1970' by Karen Walker 
• 'One Resort, Two Seasons' by Jane Claire Jackson 
• 'Maze' by Abida Akram 
• 'Lonely No More' by Jean Feingold 
• 'A nimble light' by Mizuki Yamagen 
• 'Bright, Stubborn Things' by Cate McGowan 
• 'Big Game Hunter' by Scott MacLeod 
• 'Skin Flicks, Voted Best Tattoo Parlor in Town' by Debra A. Daniel 
• 'A pocketful of quiet' by Alice Monro 
• 'Scar Tissue' by Melissa Flores Anderson 
• 'Yes Yes Yes' by Sarah Freligh 
• 'Time flies' by Scott MacLeod 
• 'Dressed for the weather' by Melissa Flores Anderson 
• 'Two seasons' by Maria Sanger 
• 'The day of the cats' by Jules Goodlet-Rowley 
• 'All the way' by Jeremy Boyce 
• 'Isaac Newton saw an apple fall' by Jack Morris 
• 'Gower Street Bookshop closes at 9pm' by Judy Darley 
• 'Wisdom in a Teacup' by Faye Brinsmead 
• 'Papas and Beers' by Melissa Flores Anderson 
• 'A Huckster’s How-To of Hustling Gulls' by Jude Potts 
• 'Skipped' by Bailey Scroggins 
• 'To The Person Who Kept My Amazon Package' by Suzanne Hicks 
• 'Sealed Envelopes' by Allison Renner 
• 'Not Based on a True Story' by Lucienne Cummings 
• 'Down and Up' by Michael Pettit 
• 'A Nimby Fails to Console Himself with Fake Flowers from Ikea' by D. X. Lewis
• 'Scuppered' by Emily Macdonald 
• 'Purchase Partners with One Year Warranty' by Marzia Rahman 
• 'She Was No Wellspring of Ideas' by Sravanthi Challapalli 
• 'Cake Walk' by Scott MacLeod 
• 'Home' by Jackie Hales 
• 'Calida and Frigida' by Lucienne Cummings 
• 'Tis the season of not asking him his name' by Roopa Raveendra 
• 'Claude' by Cate McGowan 
• 'Fiat Lux' by Willow Woo 
• 'A Hunt Reaches a Climax' by Sravanthi Challapalli 
• 'The Last Poppy' by Jackie Hales 
• 'Rainbow Road' by Alice Monro 
• 'You, Change, Me' by Madeleine Armstrong 
• 'Protection' by Patricia Bender 
• 'The Fifth Son' by Birgit K. Gaiser 
• 'My Wife Saw Santa' by Mileva Anastasiadou 
• 'Unlevel Playing Field' by Jim Parisi 
• 'Bert’s Bus' by Joyce Bingham 
• 'One Day, I will Climb a Mountain' by Marzia Rahman 
• 'Offerings' by Karin Hedetniemi 
• 'The Mystery of the Missing Last Nerve' by Athena Law 
• 'Summer of T.V. Dinners for One' by Lisa H. Owens 
• 'Pressing Clouds' by Cate McGowan 
• 'Thirty seconds after you get on the train' by Philippa Bowe 
• 'Dust to Dust' by Emily MacDonald 
• 'Crystal Healing' by Julie Cunningham 
• 'Fred Number Three' by Bronwen Griffiths 
• 'Scattering' by Cate McGowan 
• 'Holding Harry' by Jane Claire Jackson 
• 'A Trace Of Her' by Abida Akram 
• 'Hallowe’en Ball' by Birgit K. Gaiser
• 'It’s My Destiny' by Allison Renner 
• 'The Waterpark in Winter' by Jane Claire Jackson 
• ‘Laughter Between the Lines’ by Alice Monro 
• 'Perditus' by Lynda McMahon 
• 'Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)' by Chloe Paige 
• 'Captain Molasses' by Athena Law 
• 'Playing the Boy Scout Outside Aldi in 1975' by D. X. Lewis 
• 'Angel wings, boxed. As new.' by Jack Morris 
• 'The Empty Slot' by Ida Keogh 
• ‘Minus One and Beautiful’ by Alice Monro 
• 'Sheila’s Mysterious Gap' by Jane Claire Jackson 
• 'What would you do?' by Madeleine Armstrong 
• 'When Agatha rediscovered her own love story' by D. X. Lewis 
• 'The Perfect Season' by Abida Akram 
• 'Fall and Spring Semesters' by Jean Feingold 
• 'Sudden Season Change' by Meshv Patel 
• 'Mrs Murdoch' by Madeleine Armstrong 
• 'Homing instinct' by Jeremy Boyce 
• 'Street art of a fox catching a bus at sunrise' by Ida Keogh 
• 'When They Walked Out One Winter’s Morning' by Lynda McMahon 
• 'Lost, Maybe Forever' by Jean Feingold 
• 'The Vixen' by Abida Akram 
• 'The Moon in June' by Madeleine Armstrong 
• 'The Deepest Part' by Cate McGowan 
• 'Joey’s looking for a table' by Katie Willow 
• 'When Life Gives You Bitter Hellas Planitia Fruit...' by Lisa H. Owens 
• 'A Visit to St Nick' by Lucienne Cummings 
• 'Monsoon Season' by Abida Akram 
• 'Unknown Overdressed Man Discovered' by Jean Feingold 
• 'Let’s Pretend We Didn’t See Each Other' by Gargi Mehra 
• 'Drive' by Michele Catalano 
• 'An intervention' by Birgit K. Gaiser 
• 'Resignation' by Chloe Cook 
• 'Four Years' by Allison Renner 
• 'Bianca is Happy All the Time' by Jean Feingold 
• 'Unclear Cache' by Scaramanga Silk 
• 'Never ignore a flashing light' by Alison Wassell 
• 'No one sings carols any more' by Chloe Cook 
• 'Seasons of sound and silence' by Sarah Oakes
• 'Lost and Found' by Jack Morris 
• 'Amusement Parked' by John F King 
• 'Meditating about a Carp' by Anne Howkins 
• 'Lost' by Michele Catalano 
• 'Amanita Sapientia' by Birgit K. Gaiser 
• 'Got Lucky' by Michael Pettit 
• 'A Day In The Life' by Suzanne Hicks 
• 'What’s For Dinner?' by Lucienne Cummings 
• 'Time Killer' by Dimitra Fimi
• 'On the Bench Nearest the Disabled Parking' by Rachel Burrows 
• 'Persephone in the Forest' by Birgit K. Gaiser 
• 'Fresh Canvas' by Lenny Eusebi 
• 'The Last Hunt Before Winter' by Noah McWilliam 
• 'Seasonal Defiance Reorder' by Adele Gallogly 
• 'Home for Christmas' by Allison Renner 
• 'Bitter and Sweet' by Suzanne Hicks 
• 'Teddy Bear Picnic' by Melissa Flores Anderson 
• 'The Gift of Gab' by Lisa H. Owens 
• 'Ria, Ria, Ria' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar 
• 'Would You Rather…?' by Scaramanga Silk 
• 'Man’s Best Friend' by Allison Renner 
• 'Long Gone, Living On' by Scaramanga Silk 
• 'Elapse' by Willow Woo 
• 'They Need to Clack' by Philippa Bowe 
• 'The News Anchor Read the News, but No One Watched it' by Marzia Rahman 
• 'Behind you!' by Jeremy Boyce 
• 'Shantay, You Stay' by Elisa Dominique Rivera
• 'Missing Note: Wanted' by Kate Axeford
• 'August' by Angela James 
• 'Check Mate' by Scott MacLeod
• 'Suds for Duds' by Lenny Eusebi
• 'P.E.' by Melissa Flores Anderson
• 'Cleopatra' by Madeleine Armstrong