❧ Flash Fiction & CNF
– Forthcoming in 2026 –
Apologia – Bending Genres anthology, forthcoming 2026
Tree Woman — Flare: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Told in Flash Narratives, TBA, Forthcoming TBA
– 2025 –
Worm (narrative poem) — SmokeLong Quarterly, forthcoming December 2025
Say Their Names (flash fiction collaboration with Lindz McLeod) — An Honour & a Privilege, Stanchion Zine, December 2025
Back to School (craft essay collaboration with Lindz McLeod) — An Honour & a Privilege, Stanchion Zine, December 2025
A Cock Among the Bathers (reprint) — The Best Small Fictions 2025, Alternating Current Press, forthcoming 2025
The Bright Jars of Our Bodies — Flash Frog, July 2025
The Third Best Dinner Set (collaboration with Anika Carpenter, James Montgomery, and Rosaleen Lynch) — Gooseberry Pie, July 2025
Zombie Duck — SmokeLong Quarterly, June 2025
Peak Season — National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2025, National Flash Fiction Day Press, June 2025
Baby Goat on the Roof — Fractured Lit, May 2025
Gorilla gorilla gorilla — Flash Frog, April 2025
Like Dynamite — Bath Flash Fiction Award, February 2025; Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Ten, Ad Hoc Fiction, forthcoming December 2025
Eating Out — Fictive Dream, February 2025
– 2024 –
Failure to Thrive (reading) — Micro Podcast, November 2024
Lil Fucker (reprint) — Propelling Pencil, November 2024
We Knew It Was the Fitzroy’s Rabbit — HAD, November 2024
Choose Your Animal — Transformations: An Oxford Flash Fiction Anthology, Oxford Spires Publishing, October 2024
A Survivor’s Guide to Breaking and Entering — Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Seven, Ad Hoc Fiction, May 2025
A Cock Among the Bathers — Bath Flash Fiction Award, June 2024; Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Nine, Ad Hoc Fiction, Forthcoming July 2025
Great Tits — Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Nine, Ad Hoc Fiction, Forthcoming July 2025
Watershed — Tiny Sparks Everywhere: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2024, June 2024
Seed Money (reprint) — Fractured Lit, May 2024
Apex Predator — Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Six, Ad Hoc Fiction, January 2024
– 2023 –
Hey Lisa I Hope You Like — SmokeLong Quarterly, December 2023
Lil Fucker — Fractured Lit, November 2023
Failure to Thrive — Bath Flash Fiction Award, June 2023; The Weather Where You Are: Bath Flash Fiction Award 2023 Anthology, January 2024
Descending Borobudur (reprint) — The Best Small Fictions 2023, Alternating Current Press, December 2023
Fucking John Wayne — New Flash Fiction Review, May 2023
Scientists are reporting a heartbeat signal in space — The Welkin Prize, April 2023
Now Go Back — Scratching the Sands: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023, June 2023
Ewe (reprint) — The Best Small Fictions 2022, Sonder Press, Spring 2023
When the teacher talked about rape and you laughed — Retreat West, March 2023
The Polygynous Nature of Harbor Seals — Reflex Fiction, February 2023
Lessons in Attachment Parenting (reprint) — Fuel Poverty Anthology, February 2023
Forces of Nature — Dandelion Years: Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Seven, Ad Hoc Fiction, January 2023
Man Eater — Flash Fiction Festival, December 2022
A Beachcomber’s Guide to Desert Grief — Bath Flash Fiction Award, October 2022; Dandelion Years: Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Seven, Ad Hoc Fiction, January 2023
– 2022 –
Door Slam, 1980 (CNF) — QuietManDave Prize for Flash Nonfiction, Manchester Writing School, October 2022
Hurt Me — SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2022
Mother Road (collaboration with Amy Cipolla Barnes) — Reckon Review, August 2022
All Teeth — WestWord, September 2022
Everyone Knows Darcie’s Going to Die on Her Knees Waiting for Him to Say It — Micro Madness, June 2022
Tomorrow at Café La Nuit (reprint) — Miramichi Flash, Forthcoming July 2022
The Hollowing of Her Bones (collaboration with MM Bailey, Myna Chang, Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, Marcy Dilworth, Ariel M. Goldenthal, Meagan Johanson, and Ellen Weeren) — Fractured Lit, June 2022
Good Luck Lenny — 2022 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, June 2022
Descending Borobudur — Scrawl Place, April 2022
Tomorrow at Cafe La Nuit — Flash Fiction Festival (online, March 2022) and Flash Fiction Festival Anthology 5, Ad Hoc Fiction, Forthcoming 2022
Base-2 — Ten Ways the Animals Will Save Us, Retreat West Tenth Anniversary Anthology, March 2022
Blue — Flash Fiction Festival Anthology 4, Ad Hoc Fiction, March 2022
Lessons in Attachment Parenting — Flash Fiction Festival Anthology 4, Ad Hoc Fiction, March 2022
Teenage Kicks — Flash Fiction Festival Anthology 4, Ad Hoc Fiction, March 2022
A Prayer to Chim Phượng (reprint) — Flash Fiction Festival Anthology 4, Ad Hoc Fiction, March 2022
Seed Money — Reflex Fiction, Winter, January 2022 and In Defence of Pseudoscience: Reflex Fiction Anthology Five, July 2022
– 2021 –
Desde el interior del enebro — Instantáneas de Ficción Vol. 3, Susurros Chinos, December 2021
Siempre por un camino polvoriento, voy andando — Instantáneas de Ficción Vol. 3, Susurros Chinos, December 2021
Deep in the Heart of Texas — Splonk, Issue 6, December 2021
There are Absolutely No Ghosts in Mr. Gower’s Field — Flash Frog, October 2021
How to Tell a Scary Story (selected reprint)— X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Collection V, Summer Edition, July 2021
You Promise Me the Moon, But You’re No Jimmy Stewart — National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand (Micro Madness), June 2021
A Baby Born En Caul Can Never Drown — Janus Literary, May 2021
Ewe — Cease, Cows, May 2021
Lessons in Negative Space — Fractured Lit, May 2021
Osmosis — Reckon Review, April 2021
How to Tell a Scary Story — X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, April 2021
Lunar Landing — New Flash Fiction Review, April 2021
Girls of Summer — Retreat West, March 2021
Always Down a Dirt Road, I’m Walking — Bath Flash Fiction Award, February 2021 and Snow Crow, Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology, December 2021
Each Breath a Chain — Janus Literary, February 2021
The Hill We Die On — Janus Literary, February 2021
Some Things Never Change — Paragraph Planet, February 2021
– 2020 –
Pill Babies — Restore to Factory Settings: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Five, Ad Hoc Fiction, December 2020
Trip-trapping (CNF) — New Flash Fiction Review, October 2020
Lions in the Amazon — SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2020
Holy Jesus, There’s a Nun in IKEA — CHEAP POP, September 2020
A Piteraq is an Avalanche of Wind — Reflex Fiction, September 2020 and Beguiled By a Wild Thing: Reflex Fiction Anthology Four, July 2021
On Ten Bay Beach — National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand (Micro Madness), June 2020
Public Transportation — Flash Flood Journal, June 2020
This is How it Starts — Root, Branch, Tree: 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, June 2020
Catch and Release — Root, Branch, Tree: 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, June 2020
From Within the Juniper — Reflex Fiction, May 2020
My Dog Hasn’t Shit in Days — The Short Story, April 2020
When Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon — National Flash Fiction Day (online), March 2020; Root, Branch, Tree: 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, June 2020
Safety in Numbers — Retreat West, January 2020
– 2019 –
Waxing After Waning — One Eye on the Cows: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Four, Ad Hoc Fiction, December 2019
Women Get Hungry — One Eye on the Cows: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Four, Ad Hoc Fiction, December 2019
Home Improvement — Reflex Fiction, July 2019
Here is the Church — Flash Flood Journal, June 2019
Havasu Falls — National Flash Fiction Day (online) and And We Pass Through: 2019 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, June 2019
❧ Short Stories
Self-sufficient Women (reprint) — Little Bird Stories, Vol. 5, Invisible Publishing, April 2022
You Don’t Have to Feel It — Barren Magazine Issue 8, April 2019
Seven Minutes — Seven Deadly Sins YA Anthology: Lust, January 2019
Self-sufficient Women — Little Bird Stories, Vol. 5, May 2015
❧ Interviews
Smoke Signals with Sara Hills — (interview by Michael Czyzniejewski) SmokeLong Quarterly, June 2025
Interview with Sara Hills, 1st Prize Winner, February 2025 — (interview by Jude Higgins) Bath Flash Fiction Award, April 2025
An Interview with Sara Hills — SmokeLong Quarterly, May 2025
Capsules of Wonder: Sara Hills on what makes flash fiction shine (interview by Amanda Saint) — WestWord, March 2025
QuietManDavePrize 2022 non-fiction winner Sara Hills: “Throw everything at the page – all your boiled hurts, your dreams, the weird way you see the world – and see what sticks” (interview by Anita Slater) — aHa! Magazine, Manchester Metropolitan University, October 2024
Q & A with 27th Award 1st Prize Winner Sara Hills — (interview by Jude Higgins) Bath Flash Fiction Award, July 2024
Smoke & Mirrors with Sara Hills (interview by Jennifer Wortman) — SmokeLong Quarterly, December 2023
Give yourself permission to play: an interview with Sara Hills (interview by Diane Simmons) — National Flash Fiction Day, December 2023
Sara Hills On Her Recent Work and “Staying Weird” (interview by Valerie Fox) — New Flash Fiction Review, July 2023
Q & A with Sara Hills, Judge, October Award — (interview by Jude Higgins) Bath Flash Fiction Award, July 2023
Smoke & Mirrors with Sara Hills (interview by Michele Finn Johnson) — SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2022
Sara Hills talks about her new collection, The Evolution of Birds — (interview by Jude Higgins) Bath Flash Fiction Award, June 2021
Smoke & Mirrors with Emily Devane — (interview by Sara Hills) SmokeLong Quarterly, June 2021
Smoke & Mirrors with Sara Hills (interview by Amy Cipolla Barnes) — SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2020
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