Nick Black's stories have been shortlisted for various competitions, including the Land Rover/GQ/Salon House Short Story Competition and the 2013 Spread the Word Prize. He won first prize at the 2014 North London Lit Fest flash fiction contest, as chosen by the audience, and the Short Story & Flash Fiction Society's 3rd flash fiction contest. In June 2014, he read at the London Short Story Festival. His story "Lottie’s Wife" is published in the Flight Press collection 'Edgeways'.