The 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition was judged by:
- Tim Craig
- Amanda Huggins
- Fiona J. Mackintosh
- Johanna Robinson
Originally from Manchester, Tim Craig lives in London. A previous winner of the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction, his short-short fiction has placed or been commended four times in the Bath Flash Fiction Award and has also appeared in the Best Microfiction 2019 and 2022 anthologies. His debut collection Now You See Him was published in 2022 by AdHoc Fiction.
Amanda Huggins is the author of All Our Squandered Beauty and Crossing the Lines – both of which won a Saboteur Award for Best Novella – as well as five collections of short stories and poetry. Amanda's fiction and travel writing have appeared in publications such as Mslexia, Popshot, Tokyo Weekender, The Telegraph, Traveller, Wanderlust and the Guardian. Three of her flash fiction stories have also been broadcast on BBC radio. She has won numerous awards, including the Colm Toibin International Short Story Award, the H E Bates Short Story Prize and the British Guild of Travel Writers New Travel Writer of the Year. She was a runner-up in the Costa Short Story Award and the Fish Short Story Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Prize, The Alpine Fellowship Award and many others. Amanda lives in Yorkshire and works as an editor and publishing assistant.
Fiona J. Mackintosh (www.fionajmackintosh.com) is the Scottish-American author of a flash collection, The Yet Unknowing World published in the UK by Ad Hoc Fiction. She has won the Fish, Bath, Reflex, Flash 500, and NFFD Micro competitions, and her short stories have been listed in several competitions in the UK and Ireland. She lives just outside Washington D.C., and her historical novel Ancestral Virgins is currently on submission to agents.
Johanna Robinson is based near Liverpool, UK, and has been writing short fiction since 2016. Her work has been featured in various magazines and anthologies, including SmokeLong, Reflex Press and Mslexia. In 2020, she won the TSS Cambridge Prize for Flash Fiction and the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and in 2019 Ad Hoc Fiction published her novella-in-flash Homing, which follows a Norwegian Resistance family in the Second World War. She is currently working on a novel set in Victorian Liverpool, and has been funded by Arts Council England. More of her work can be found at www.johanna-robinson.com.