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2025 NFFD Long Lists

alphabetically by title
Please refrain from linking your name with your story title while judges are still deliberating.

ADULT

  • Badger
  • Charlie’s dad
  • Counting story
  • Dad and the garden shed
  • Eternity
  • Hitler’s elephant
  • How it is
  • In small moments, blazing
  • Mingus
  • Prepper
  • Randy muses on Juniper Street
  • Roots
  • Saturday evening lessons
  • The brain is so bitter
  • The Curators
  • The golden glove
  • The imaginary boss
  • The outgoing tide

YOUTH

  • 10.00 am
  • 2:38 am
  • and I’m feeling like
  • Blow, Wind, Blow
  • Branches
  • Charged
  • Crushes and Chemistry
  • Elephant Eyes
  • Fishing
  • Fool’s Gold
  • Hey look. You peeled your own orange today.
  • Inside a chicken’s mind
  • Inward folded wings
  • Julia Peter Woolshed Interior (Land girls working in a wool shed) 1944
  • July 21, 1969
  • Let the Bird Go Free
  • Mirror Image
  • Playing Cards
  • Rarotongan Dogs
  • She doesn’t get the music I listen to
  • Silent Song
  • Temperature of Heaven
  • Starshine
  • Superdog!
  • The Crab’s Home
  • The Gun Fires
  • The Loon
  • The Music
  • The Star Child
  • The Weight
  • Under the Trees They Left
  • War
  • Wednesday afternoon
  • When it’s done
  • Who am I?

Watch for short lists in early June!