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Excited to be a finalist! Can't wait to read the winning pieces!

Huge congrats to these three authors! Can’t wait to share these stories! And thank you to all who entered! 🐸💙

Completely floored by this! Thank you Flash Frog and Guest Judge Gina Chung for this honor. Massive congrats to Alison Morretta and Matt Barrett too! Can’t wait to read the stories and see the gorgeous artwork of Jiksun Cheung bring them to life 💙🐸

Honored to be in this great company -- thank you so much Eric Scot Tryon and Gina Chung!!

I have a story in The Forge today -- thank you so much to Fiona McPhillips for selecting it, helping me edit it, and for the great interview questions! I'd love if you all gave it a look! forgelitmag.com/2025/03/03/if-…

Delighted to work with Matt Barrett again on this beautiful piece

“I’d describe the way my brother’s friend, Mark, wrapped his arms around his shoulders, pulling him close to his chest as my father said, Don’t…” A beautiful example of how a story can be told. Go read Matt Barrett in The Forge Literary Magazine

🚨EXCITING NEWS! The BLUE FROG 3rd place winner — “Gulls of the Algarve” by Matt Barrett — will publish tomorrow!! 👀

Huge congrats, Matt! Such a beautiful piece!!

My 3rd place story is live! Thank you to Flash Frog, Eric Scot Tryon, and Gina Chung for accepting "Gulls of the Algarve" and thank you Jiksun Cheung for the beautiful artwork!

An absolutely stunning, bittersweet piece by Matt Barrett in Flash Frog Go read it now! So honored to contribute a watercolor to this story 🙏 The original painting will be on the way to you soon, Matt!

“He paused to catch his breath, a tube in his nose and IVs in his arms, administering God-knows-what to cure God-knows-what despite none of us believing in God at all.” Read this winning piece from Matt Barrett!

"So much of life is about waiting, I think, for what you know will happen next." Matt Barrett in Flash Frog 👏👏👏 and stunning artwork by Jiksun Cheung flash-frog.com/2025/03/17/gul…

Okay, but have you read this?! Matt Barrett this is… Everything. It’s Everything.🫶🏼 Gulls of the Algarve by Matt Barrett flash-frog.com/2025/03/17/gul…

Only it didn’t have a broken wing, it was just too tired to fly, which happens sometimes, even to gulls who otherwise look okay, even when nothing seems wrong with their wings at all. Quiet, beautiful story of compassion 💙 Matt Barrett Flash Frog

wrecked at the hands of Matt Barrett in Flash Frog:

Gulls of the Algarve by Matt Barrett flash-frog.com/2025/03/17/gul… Beautiful story in Flash Frog - the imagery is heartbreaking.

"Most of us understood—we had wanted to fly away at some point too, but my niece was the only one who had the balls to try and now had the broken bones to prove it." Wow, Kyle Isamu Weik! An amazing read and a truly worthy winner!

Huge thank you to our Blue Frog Guest Artist Jiksun Cheung!! Each of these three pieces is absolutely stunning! 🙏🏼💙

An acceptance from Prairie Schooner! 🎉