Alternating Current Press’ Best Small Fictions 2025 contributors announced

The contributors of the Alternating Current Press’ Best Small Fictions 2025 anthology were announced on Monday, May 26, 2025.

Alternating Current Press is a literary press that focuses on publishing and promoting books and other works of literature that challenge readers and have a distinct sense of self, timelessness, and atmosphere in the US. They publish a variety of formats, including full-length books, multi-author anthologies, chapbooks, and both print and online journals featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid work, while also offering several annual writing awards.

Best Small Fictions is the Alternating Current Press’ contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year. Now in its tenth year, Best Small Fictions features the best microfiction, flash fiction, haibun stories, and prose poetry from around the world. Originally founded by Tara L. Masih, it is currently steered by series editor Nathan Leslie, who has served in this role since 2019.

The contributors to the next edition of the anthology, announced on Monday, feature the following writers of African descent;

• This Because Dog Is God Spelled Backward, Erinola E. Daranijo / Okay Donkey
• Family Politics, Ehiorobo Derek / African Poetry Book Fund Evaristo Prize 2024 Co-Winner
• What Would the Aliens Think?, Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu Collins / SmokeLong Quarterly
• You Work in the Worst Diner in Existence That’s Always Open for Business, Avitus B. Carle / X-Ray Literary Magazine
• A Day in the Zoo, Brianna Johnson / Emerge Literary Journal
• This Is What Always Happens, Khalid Mitchell / Astrolabe
• Sister, Sister, Ayotola Tehingbola / Split Lip Magazine
• This Thing in Our Chests, Awo Twumwaah / Afreada
• Memory / I Send Myself, Wangũi wa Kamonji / The Decolonial Passage

The anthology is expected to be published in the fall.