NANO Fiction (print ISSN 1935-844X; digital ISSN 2160-939X) is non-profit literary journal that publishes flash fiction—a form of short story also known as micro fiction, micro narrative, micro-story, microrrelatos, postcard fiction, the short short, the short short story, kürzestgeschichten, and sudden fiction—of 300 words or fewer.

Featuring twenty to thirty authors in each issue, NANO Fiction has roots that draw from Aesop’s Fables and Zen Koans. Notable practitioners of this prose form include Lydia Davis, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Naguib Mahfouz, and Linor Goralik, among others.

This issue of NANO Fiction features works by: Lizzy Acker, Genevieve Betts,Blake Butler, Katherine Lien Chariott, Katie Cortese, James Davis, Brandon Scott Gorrell, David Grimes, Amy Holwerda, M. David Hornbuckle, Bill Hutchison, Jason Kerzinski, Mark Konkel, MK Laughlin, Kelly Luce, Josh Maday, Nomi Meta-Murota, Amy Nichols, Neil Ellis Orts, Steve Price, Joseph Riippi, Matthew Stiles, Naomi Thompson, Janet Thorning, & DC Young.