The Official NFFD 2023 Roadmap

Read with us!

For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 24 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in at half past the hour every hour from start to finish for our Debut Flash Series — new stories written by previously unpublished flash writers.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.

Learn with us!

Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique are returning this year with a free, online workshop where they'll be offering even more flash fiction inspiration.  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.

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 25 June 2023 and doesn't finish until the team is done reading through all the wondrous things you send us!

If you'd like to write with others, the folks at Propelling Pencil are independently running a free one-hour workshop based around the prompts at The Write-In.  It's free, but you'll need to sign up with them here.

Celebrate with us!

Join us from 7pm BST on Zoom for the virtual launch of Scratching the Sands, the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.  We'll celebrate with live readings from many of this year's authors, hosted by National Flash Fiction Day's own Diane Simmons with help from anthology editor Karen Jones.  The event is free to attend, but you'll need to book in advance here.  For those who can't make it, we'll post the event on our YouTube channel in due course.

Connect with us!

As usual, we'll be posting all our prompts and FlashFlood stories on Twitter @nationalflashfd and will be around on Facebook at facebook.com/nationalflashfictionday

If you're running something flashy on or near National Flash Fiction Day, do let us know so we can spread the word.

Huge thanks to all the volunteers who help make this happen, and to everyone who has submitted work to our projects, joined in at home, and chatted with us on Twitter.  We hope you'll enjoy this weekend full of reading, writing and celebrating flash.

Happy writing!