Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
Next weekend, we’re celebrating the tenth anniversary of National Flash Fiction Day…and what better way to celebrate it than with a workshop? This year, we’re joined by the brilliant Farhana Khalique and Anita Goveas who are generously offering an online workshop, ‘Layers in Flash Fiction’. Participation is free, but you must register for a place … Read more
Introducing… Legerdemain: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2021 This year we’re bringing spellbinding tales on the theme of ‘magic’ by authors from all over the world! From fortune tellers to ghosts, performance shenanigans to the magic of science, there’s something for everyone in this year’s anthology! Available for pre-order very soon! Artwork by our artist-in-residence Jeanette … Read more
National Flash Fiction Day is celebrating its 10th Anniversary on Saturday, 26 June 2021, and to mark the occasion we’ve created a brand new Novella-in-Flash Award which is accepting submissions until 31 October 2021! We are incredibly excited to have Sophie van Llewyn, author of Bottled Goods (long listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction) … Read more
FlashFlood, National Flash Fiction Day’s curated journal, is open for submissions from 00:01 BST on 2 May to 23:59 BST on 8 May. Over the next week, we’ll be reading hundreds of flashes and choosing a selection to publish in the next FlashFlood which will take place on National Flash-Fiction Day’s 10th Anniversary on 26 … Read more
For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST on 26 June, FlashFlood will be publishing one flash every 5 to 10 minutes or so. Submissions will open for one week, from 00:01 BST on 2 May to 23:59 BST on 8 May 2021 for stories of up to 300 words. You can read the submission … Read more
The results of the 2021 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition are in! This year we awarded first, second and third prizes, together with seven highly commended flashes. All ten stories will receive prize money and will be published in the 2021 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, which will be out in time for National … Read more
This year, we were thrilled to receive an amazing 726 micro fiction entries to the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition. This is 300 more than we received last year! Our judges, Rachael Dunlop, K M Elkes, Sharon Telfer and Alison Woodhouse had the difficult job of whittling down the 726 stories to a … 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
Welcome to the last in our series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology editors and Microfiction Competition judges. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Alison Woodhouse, one of this year’s judges for the 2021 NFFD Microfiction Competition, about novels, novellas-in-flash, favourite writers, and her advice to those entering this year’s microfiction … Read more
In celebration of our tenth anniversary in 2021 we are now open to entries for our first novella-in-flash competition. Our judge is Sophie van Llewyn, author of Bottled Goods, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The competition will be run by Stephanie Carty and Jeanette Sheppard. You can read more about the team here. … Read more