Month: June 2025

Read with us!

For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 14 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in at half past the hour every hour from start to finish for our Debut Flash Series — new stories written by previously unpublished flash writers.

We'll also be launching the 2025 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, Monsoon, edited by Karen Jones & Cheryl Markosky.  You can order it in our Bookshop.

Write with us!

Over at NFFD’s sister project The Write-In, we’ll be posting a flash prompt every six hours from 00:00 – 24:00 BST on National Flash Fiction Day, with five prompts in all. You'll then have until midnight on Sunday to submit your responses for a chance of publication. Publication of responses begins on Monday, 16 June and doesn't finish until the team is done reading through all the wondrous things you send us.  Due to the ever-growing number and quality of submissions, The Write-In is now submitting award nominations.

Celebrate with us!

We're celebrating live in Bath with free in-person workshops, a panel and the launch of the 2025 Anthology, Monsoon.  The timetable is here and you can register for a free place here.  Or, if you're nearby, feel free to contact us for any eleventh-hour spaces.

Connect with us!

We'll be posting all our prompts and FlashFlood stories on Bluesky ‪@natflashfictionday.bsky.social‬ and on Twitter/X @nationalflashfd, and we'll 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!