Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
A huge thank you to everyone who submitted their Novella-in-Flash. If your name is on the list we would love you to celebrate on social media, but to keep things anonymous for judging please do not reveal your title. Congratulations to all the authors listed below! A Biscuit Crumb Memoir A Time-traveller’s Journey Beyond the … Read more
Welcome to the first 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 Karen Jones, one of this year’s editors for the 2022 … Read more
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
With our submission window set to open in less than a week, we’d like to take a moment to introduce you to this year’s judging panel. This year, we’re super excited to announce that Christopher Allen, Joanna Campbell, Tracy Fells, and Damhnait Monaghan will be reading your submissions. These fantastic flash writers, readers and editors … Read more
The start of our 2022 Anthology and Microfiction Competition submission windows is just around the corner, so we thought we’d introduce you to this year’s editor and let you in on the 2022 theme. We are delighted to announce that the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day anthology will be edited by NFFD’s Karen Jones and … Read more
It may be cold and dark out, but we’re already dreaming about a flash-tastic summer, and making plans…. First and foremost, mark your calendars: we’re delighted to announce that National Flash Fiction Day 2022 will take place on Saturday, 18 June 2022. We’ll celebrate with a day full of flash fun involving writing prompts, a … Read more
I am sharing the news that I have decided to step down as Co-Director of National Flash Fiction Day (UK). This year marked National Flash Fiction Day’s tenth anniversary, which is a huge milestone not only for National Flash Fiction Day itself but for the celebration of flash fiction within the community in the U.K. … Read more
This year, Farhana Khalique and Anita Goveas generously offered a free, one-hour workshop, ‘Layers in Flash Fiction’ as part of the tenth anniversary National Flash Fiction Day celebration. The workshop was online and focused on how writers can use imagery, structures and titles to develop layers in flash fiction. We had incredible demand and couldn’t … Read more
National Flash Fiction Day kicks off in less than fourteen hours! Here’s what we’ve got going on tomorrow, and where you can find it. FlashFlood For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST, we’re publishing one flash every 5 to 10 minutes over at NFFD’s online journal, FlashFlood. Then, on Sunday, we’re featuring work from … Read more
As part of our tenth year celebrations we are excited to announce a special event focused on the Novella-in-Flash. We’d love you to join us for our panel on Friday 30th July (19:30 to 20:30 UK BST). We are thrilled that Johanna Robinson, author of Homing (Ad Hoc Fiction), will be our host for the evening. We … Read more