Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
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
Entries for the 2019 National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition are now open! This year’s judges are Angela Readman, Diane Simmons, Kevlin Henney, and Judy Darley. Send our judges your very best micro fictions of 100 words or fewer! Entries are open from Friday 4th January 2019 until Friday 15th March 2019, 23:59pm GMT. … Read more
Well, the waiting is over, and we can finally announce the winners for this year’s National Flash-Fiction Day 100 word Micro-Fiction competition!It was a hard task for the judges, who had to whittle down nearly 400 entries to a list of their favourite twenty five. These lists were then amalgamated to form the shortlist that … Read more
Hello all, Just a very quick post today. We are pleased to announce that our hard-pressed judges have been beavering away and we now have a shortlist of 26 stories for our competition from which the winning 10 will be chosen. The final decisions are being made as we speak, and as long as all … Read more
I’ve been entering flash fiction contests for a while now, and have just launched Flashbang, my first attempt at running a contest for others to enter. It’s made me think afresh about the value of contests, and how to describe flash fiction to those coming at the concept for the first time. I’m someone who … Read more
National Flash-Fiction Day is rolling down the tracks, coming closer and closer. But before it gets here we have a host of deadlines for competitions and anthologies. So, I thought I would give you a list of the dates so you don’t miss any of them. Full details of all of these can be found … Read more