Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for submissions! It’s that time of year again; National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for submissions to the 2022 NFFD Anthology & Microfiction Competition! We’ll be reading submissions from 1 December to 15 February. Please note that these are two separate projects run by two separate teams with two … Read more
After reading so many stunning stories on the theme of MAGIC, Nod Ghosh and I have finalised our selections! Congratulations to all the authors listed below! We would like to thank everybody who submitted their stories for consideration for this year’s anthology. Times continue to be very challenging for us all, and I personally found it … Read more
First of all, a huge thanks to everyone who submitted work to this year’s anthology. We had nearly double the submissions this year as last, and it was a treat to read each and every piece. We were incredibly impressed at the overall quality of submissions, so much so that we’ve decided to publish a … Read more
We are delighted to welcome Sophie van Llewyn to the National Flash Fiction Day team as this year’s guest editor for the 2020 National Flash Fiction Day anthology. She’ll be joining NFFD Co-Director Ingrid Jendrzejewski in putting together this year’s anthology of flash fiction from around the world. We’ll be announcing this year’s theme in … Read more
Welcome to the second in a series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology editors and micro fiction competition judges! This week, Santino Prinzi is in conversation with micro fiction competition judge and Costa Short Story Award winning author, Angela Readman. They talk about Angela’s recently published debut novel, and Angela offers tips … Read more
Welcome to the first in a series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology editors and micro fiction competition judges! This week, Diane Simmons talks with one of this year’s anthology editors, Joanna Campbell, about her writing routine, her favourite book, and how she’s hoping writers will respond to this year’s anthology … Read more
Submissions for the 2019 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology are now open, and this year will be more exciting than ever! Our theme is filled with possibility…or not! Our theme can reveal secrets to us and it can keep danger hidden. Is our theme trying to keep everyone from getting in, or is our theme … Read more
Hello everyone!Well, it has been very, very difficult to make a decision, but Holly Howitt and myself finally managed to whittle down the nearly 300 submissions for this year’s anthology to the final 50.With no more fanfare, the names and stories are: Amanda Oosthuizen – ‘Perfectly Black Sky’ Amanda Quinn – ‘Changing Light’ Ana Martinez … Read more
Hello again! Well, the dust has settled, we have patched our wounds and salved our bruises, and we can finally announce the list of stories which have made it through into the first ever National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology. The collection will be entitled Jawbreakers (taken from the story submitted by Jen Campbell) and is, well, … Read more
Submissions for the first NFFD Anthology closed last Tuesday and Valerie O’Riordan and myself have had a hard week reading through the 297 entries we received. It’s been a wonderful task, getting to read all your stories, but a hard one having to chose between them. Thank you to everyone who entered, we’re so pleased … Read more