Lisa Thornton is a writer and nurse. She has work in SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, Hippocampus, Pithead Chapel, and other literary magazines. She has been shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award and Bridport Flash Fiction Prize. She won the WestWord Prize in flash fiction in 2023. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50.
Lisa has a history in journalism, a BA in Political Science from Colorado State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is Senior Flash Fiction Editor at JMWW and can be found on Bluesky and Instagram @thorntonforreal.
Honors
- Best Small Fictions nomination 2026 anthology
- Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2025
- Finalist, Hippocampus Magazine ‘We Love Short Shorts’ Flash CNF contest 2024
- Finalist, Blue Frog Flash Fiction Contest 2024
- First place, Flash Fiction category, WestWord Prize 2023
- Long list, SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023
- Short list, Bath Flash Fiction Award 2023, 2024
- Short list, Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2023, 2024
- Best of the Net nominations (Roi Fainéant Press 2023, Fiery Scribe Review 2023)
- Pushcart Prize nominations (SmokeLong Quarterly 2022, Raw Lit magazine 2024, Literary Namjooning 2025)
- Finalist, SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022