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We may have some intermittent downtime over the next few weeks. Fear not; we’re not going anywhere.  We’re just fixing some bits and bobs behind the scenes….

We had to cancel our NFFD 2020 live event, so we’ve brought our celebration online. In our Flash Feast series, we’ve invited some flash superstars to share some videos and posts over the course of the weekend. In this, our final Flash Feast of National Flash Fiction Day 2020 with Nik Perring, you can find … Read more

Last year, at our 2019 National Flash Fiction Day event in Coventry, we shared some flash written on the theme of ‘epiphany’ by men at HMP Wandsworth who were participants of Safe Ground‘s Flash Fiction Project workshops.  We’ve published these over at our online journal, FlashFlood as part of our Safe Ground series.  We’d like … Read more

In 2019, Makeda McMillan of Small Green Shoots took last year’s NFFD Anthology theme of ‘Doors’ and developed it into a project called ‘Glass Ceilings, Closed Doors’ aimed at young men from her area, with a goal of developing flash and poetry ‘pieces around the stereotypes and barriers they face being young, BME and from … Read more

We have the same name, the same love of flash, and the same difficulties this year running our annual events due to Covid-19.  We’re a completely separate organisation from National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand, but this year we’re joining forces to celebrate flash fiction throughout the month. Although most of NFFD UK’s online celebration … Read more

Join us from 7 – 10 pm BST for the virtual launch of the 2020 NFFD Anthology, Root, Branch, Tree. Readings from the anthology will be posted on our YouTube channel and we’ll be celebrating with chat and virtual toasts on Twitter and our dedicated Facebook event. All welcome! And of course, don’t forget to … Read more

National Flash Fiction Day has been celebrating flash since midnight, but Small Green Shoots is way ahead of us — they have been celebrating all week! National Flash Fiction Day and Small Green Shoots are sharing a common ‘family’ theme this year, and we’re excited to see all the fantastic new work that has come … Read more

We had to cancel our NFFD 2020 live event, so we’ve brought our celebration online. In our Flash Feast series, we’ve invited some flash superstars to share some videos and posts over the course of the day. In our second Flash Feast, Jonathan Cardew of Bending Genres shares some insights about fun and form in … Read more

The ninth annual National Flash Fiction Day UK has finally arrived! Check back here from 8:00 a.m. for Flash Feast and Flash Focus posts, but in the meantime…. Put on your wellies: the 2020 Flood has started!  Join us at FlashFlood, NFFD’s online journal for 24 hours of flash, with a new piece posting every … Read more

National Flash Fiction Day kicks off in less than four 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. The Write-In Over at NFFD’s The Write-In, … Read more