The Official NFFD 2022 Roadmap
Read with us!
For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 18 June, FlashFlood, NFFD's curated online journal, will be publishing one flash every 5 to 10 minutes over at NFFD. Check in at half past the hour every hour from 7:30 am to midnight for our Debut Flash Series — new flashes written by unpublished writers.
Then, on Sunday, we'll post the latest in our Community Flash Series. This year, we catch up with the Writers Group from Wandsworth Carers Centre, a charity that provides support to unpaid carers.
Write with us!
Over at NFFD’s The Write-In, we’ll be posting a flash prompt every hour on the hour from 00:00 – 24:00 BST on National Flash Fiction Day. You'll then have 24 hours to submit your responses for a chance of publication. Publication of responses begins on 19 June 2022 and doesn't finish until the team is done reading through all the wondrous things you send us!
Learn with us!
Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique are returning this year with a free, online workshop where they'll look at how we can add more depth to our flash fiction. This event is free but spaces are limited and you must register in advance here to get the link. For those who can't make it, we plan to publish a video of the workshop after the event.
Celebrate with us!
Join us from 7pm BST on Facebook for the virtual launch of And We Lived Happily Ever After, the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. Four videos of readings from the anthology will be posted every quarter of an hour. The event is available to everyone, whether on Facebook or not. Join us for a chat and to view the videos here. Videos won't start appearing until 7:00pm BST on 18 June 2022, but they will be available to watch any time after that here.
And there's more....
Keep an eye on our News Feed for more flashy fun, including...
- Videos of readings from Sybilla by Joanna Campbell, our first Novella-in-Flash winner (posting at 10am)
- Lunchtime writing exercises provided by Michael Loveday (posting at noon)
- A text-based mini-course on How To Write When You Don't Feel Like It from writer and performance-maker Rachel Jendrzejewski (posting at 2pm)
And there's even more still....
We're not the only ones celebrating flash this weekend! These other groups are offering free flash activity this weekend and beyond....
- New Zealand's National Flash Fiction Day is celebrating their ten year anniversary on Sunday, 19 June 2022. They have a fantastic line-up of flash fiction fun and you can find the full schedule at their website, https://nationalflash.org/.
- Retreat West are running a flash fiction treasure hunt on Twitter. Rules will be posted at 10am on Saturday, 18 June 2022 on their Twitter feed at @RetreatWest, we're told.
- Writers' HQ is offering a Five Days of Flash Challenge which will have you drafting five new stories in five days -- all for free! You can find Writers' HQ at https://writershq.co.uk and information about the Five Days of Flash here.
(If you're running something flashy on or near National Flash Fiction Day, do let us know so we can spread the word.)
Happy writing!