Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
Looks like thunderstorms on the horizon… It’s that time of year again! Submissions for FlashFlood, NFFD’s online journal, will open for one week only, starting this Sunday. The submission window is from 00:01 BST on 1 May to 23:59 BST on 7 May 2022. We’re looking for pieces of up to 300 words on any … Read more
After reading oodles of brilliant stories on the theme of FREEDOM, Karen Jones and Chris Drew have finalised their selections for the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the first-ever Editors’ Choice Awards. Below is the list of the 50 stories that will appear in this year’s anthology, alongside the 2022 Microfiction Competition … Read more
This year, we were thrilled to receive 421 entries to the National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition. Our judges, Christopher Allen, Joanna Campbell, Tracy Fells and Damhnait Monaghan had the difficult job of whittling down the stories to a shortlist of 27. This was no easy task and we’d like to take this opportunity to … Read more
This is a reminder that the submission window for the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition and for the eleventh annual National Flash Fiction Day Anthology closes tomorrow, 15 February 2022, at 23:59 GMT. These are two separate projects run by two separate teams with two separate submissions processes. Here’s a reminder of what … Read more
Welcome to the sixth and last in our series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology editors and Microfiction Competition judges! Submissions for the Anthology and Microfiction Competition are open from 1 December 2021 to 15 February 2022. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Joanna Campbell, one of this year’s judges for … Read more
Welcome to the fifth in our series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology editors and Microfiction Competition judges! Submissions for the Anthology and Microfiction Competition are open from 1 December 2021 to 15 February 2022. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Damhnait Monaghan, one of this year’s judges for the 2022 … Read more
Congratulations to our 2021 Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions nominees, and best of luck to all these flashes in the next round of these selection processes. You can purchase copies of the 2021 NFFD Anthology containing these fantastic pieces and more at our Bookshop. Best Small Fictions 2021 “Adverb” by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar “Everybody” … Read more
Welcome to the fourth in our series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology editors and Microfiction Competition judges! Submissions for the Anthology and Microfiction Competition are open from 1 December 2021 to 15 February 2022. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Chris Drew, one of this year’s editors for the 2022 … Read more
Welcome to the next in our series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology editors and Microfiction Competition judges! Submissions for the Anthology and Microfiction Competition are open from 1 December 2021 to 15 February 2022. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Tracy Fells, one of this year’s judges for the 2022 … Read more
Welcome to the second in our series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology editors and Microfiction Competition judges! Submissions for the Anthology and Microfiction Competition are open from 1 December 2021 to 15 February 2022. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Christopher Allen, one of this year’s judges for the 2022 … Read more