Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
In the spring of 2020, with the onset of COVID-19 lockdowns in the US, writer and performance maker Rachel Jendrzejewski taught two versions of an online class called How to Write When You Don’t Feel Like It through the Playwrights’ Center and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Today, with many of us still struggling … Read more
Just in case you weren’t busy enough at The Write-In, as part of National Flash Fiction Day 2022, Michael Loveday, author of the craft guide Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript (Ad Hoc Fiction 2022), has been kind enough to share a three-part writing prompt with us that might help kick-start a … Read more
We’re beyond thrilled that Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique are joining us again this year with another free workshop. Places have now sold out, but we’ll be posting the workshop later on for everyone to enjoy. In the meantime, you can access last year’s workshop with this link to the Zoom session, using the passcode … Read more
We thrilled to introduce our newest anthology, And We Lived Happily Ever After: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2022, edited by Karen Jones and Chris Drew. Buy your copy now from the NFFD Bookshop! This year, we invite you to explore more than fifty excellent stories on the theme of ‘freedom’, as well as the … Read more
You may know about FlashFlood, National Flash Fiction Day’s curated online journal, but did you know that 2022 marks the fourth year of our Debut Flash Series? Each year, we reserve slots for unpublished flash writers and, starting from 6:30 a.m. BST, we’ll be publishing debut flash at half past the hour until midnight. We’ve … Read more
The Official NFFD 2022 Roadmap The UK’s National Flash Fiction Day starts at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 18 June 2022. Here’s your handy guide to what’s happening when…. Read with us! For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 18 June, FlashFlood, NFFD’s curated online journal, will be publishing one flash every 5 … Read more
We are thrilled to announce that today is publication day for Joanna Campbell’s wonderful novella-in-flash, Sybilla. Joanna won our Novella-in-Flash Award back in January with her historical novella set in bookshop next to the Wall in West Berlin. Sybilla is now officially on sale at the NFFD Bookshop. All of us at National Flash Fiction … Read more
As part of our tenth anniversary celebrations last year, National Flash Fiction Day launched the Novella-in-Flash Award. Our inaugural judge, Sophie van Llewyn, chose Joanna Campbell’s wonderful Sybilla as the winner. We are excited to announced that Sybilla will be published on Thursday, 16 June 2022. Here’s a flavour of what it’s all about…. One … Read more
National Flash Fiction Day 2022 is less than two weeks away and we’re getting ready for another weekend of flashy fun. We’re super excited to launch our next National Flash Fiction Anthology on 18 June, but we thought we’d give you a sneak peak of the cover beforehand. Huge thanks to our Artist-in-Residence Jeanette Sheppard … Read more
Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique are joining us again this year for another free workshop to celebrate National Flash Fiction Day 2022! In this free, online workshop, Anita and Farhana will discuss how to add more depth into your flash fiction. This event is free but spaces are limited and you must register in advance … Read more