Publications

Flash Fiction & CNF

Watershed — 2024 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, forthcoming June 2024

Hey Lisa I Hope You LikeSmokeLong Quarterly, December 2023

Lil FuckerFractured Lit, November 2023

Failure to Thrive — Bath Flash Fiction Award, June 2023; Bath Flash Fiction Award 2023 Anthology, Forthcoming January 2024

Descending Borobudur (reprint) — The Best Small Fictions 2023, Alternating Current Press, Forthcoming October 2023

Fucking John WayneNew 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

Tree Woman — Flare: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Told in Flash Narratives, Ad Hoc Fiction, Forthcoming 2023

Ewe (reprint) — The Best Small Fictions 2022, Sonder Press, Forthcoming Spring 2023

When the teacher talked about rape and you laughedRetreat 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 Year: 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 Year: Bath Flash Fiction Anthology Seven, Ad Hoc Fiction, January 2023

Door Slam, 1980 (CNF) — QuietManDave Prize for Flash Nonfiction, Manchester Writing School, October 2022

Hurt MeSmokeLong Quarterly, September 2022

Mother Road (collaboration with Amy Barnes) — Reckon Review, August 2022

All TeethWestWord, 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) — 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 NuitFlash 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

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 TexasSplonk, Issue 6, December 2021

There are Absolutely No Ghosts in Mr. Gower’s FieldFlash 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 DrownJanus Literary, May 2021

EweCease, Cows, May 2021

Lessons in Negative SpaceFractured Lit, May 2021

OsmosisReckon Review, April 2021

How to Tell a Scary StoryX-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, April 2021

Lunar LandingNew Flash Fiction Review, April 2021

Girls of SummerRetreat West, March 2021

Always Down a Dirt Road, I’m WalkingBath Flash Fiction Award, February 2021 and Snow Crow, Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology, December 2021

Each Breath a ChainJanus Literary, February 2021

The Hill We Die OnJanus Literary, February 2021

Some Things Never Change — Paragraph Planet, February 2021

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 AmazonSmokeLong Quarterly, September 2020

Holy Jesus, There’s a Nun in IKEACHEAP 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 BeachNational Flash Fiction Day New Zealand (Micro Madness), June 2020

Public TransportationFlash 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 DaysThe Short Story, April 2020

When Neil Armstrong Walks on the MoonNational Flash Fiction Day (online), March 2020; Root, Branch, Tree: 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, June 2020

Safety in NumbersRetreat West, January 2020

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 ChurchFlash Flood Journal, June 2019

Havasu FallsNational 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 ItBarren 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

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 — 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 BirdsBath Flash Fiction Award, June 2021

Smoke & Mirrors with Emily DevaneSmokeLong Quarterly, June 2021

Smoke & Mirrors with Sara Hills (interview by Amy Cipolla Barnes) — SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2020