• Sudden Fiction Contest 2025 Winners

    Sudden Fiction Contest 2025 Winners

    We are delighted to announce the winners of the Berkeley Fiction Review’s 2025 Sudden Fiction contest!

  • Growing Pains

    Growing Pains

    I’ve never believed in soulmates, but if I’d had to name one person to call mine,…

  • Bayshore

    Bayshore

    What she had not expected was all of the things that came with the fertility exam.…

  • Interview with the Author: Joan Sung on Family, Writing, and her New Memoir, Kinda Korean

    Interview with the Author: Joan Sung on Family, Writing, and her New Memoir, Kinda Korean

    I have been writing since as long as I could remember. Back in the early nineties, I would…

  • Collectively Conscious

    Collectively Conscious

    My twin brother and I always believed that if we could read each other’s minds, we…

  • Enlightenment

    Enlightenment

    You parked the carts of fruit across the intersections of Nanjing and arranged the fat ones…

  • Golgori

    Golgori

    Each century went by the same as the last: his command, waking the morning skies of…

  • Between Here and There

    Between Here and There

    It’s after midnight, and Connor’s mother thinks he’s in bed. Instead, he’s standing atop the rusty…

  • Recycling

    Recycling

    On his deathbed, my boyfriend started writing a dissertation. Something about dark matter and complex equations…

  • Refuse

    Refuse

    A two-mile stretch of Old Route 7, just near the high school. Everything had been considered,…