Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
We’re gearing up for our virtual launch of the 2020 NFFD Anthology tomorrow, but in the meantime, here’s a sneak peak at the beautiful cover featuring art by our artist-in-residence, Jeanette Sheppard. Huge thanks to Jeanette, and huge thanks also to Sharon Telfer who kindly let us use the title of her flash for the … Read more
National Flash Fiction Day 2020 is just around the corner, and we’ll be celebrating as usual with a veritable flood of flash, starting from 00:01 BST and ending at midnight on Saturday, 6 June. If you’d like to be a part of this year’s Flood, do send us some work! We are open for submissions … Read more
FlashFlood will be open for submissions from 00:01 BST Monday, 25 May to 23:59 BST Sunday, 31 May. We are happy to read up to three 500-word stories per author on any theme, in any style. Submissions are free. Previously published submissions are fine as long as you retain copyright and any period of exclusivity … Read more
First of all, fear not; National Flash Fiction Day is not cancelled! We are, however, moving our celebrations completely online and are working out the best ways we can serve the flash fiction community in this strange time. We will be posting more details in the coming weeks, but we’re excited about the possibility of … Read more
It is with great pleasure that we announce the winning and highly commended stories of this year’s National Flash Fiction Day micro fiction competition! These ten stories can now be read at 2020 Microfiction Results and they will be published in the forthcoming 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, which will be out in time … Read more
This year, 400 micro fictions (flashes of up to 100 words) were submitted to the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition. Our judges, Susmita Bhattacharya, FJ Morris, Anne Summerfield and Rob Walton had the difficult job of whittling down the 400 stories to a shortlist of 27. This was no easy task and we’d … Read more
Welcome to the sixth and last in a series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology editors and microfiction competition judges! This week, Diane Simmons chats with one of this year’s anthology editors, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, about childhood reading, language differences, and what she’d love to see in the submission queue for the … Read more
Welcome to the fifth in a series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology editors and microfiction competition judges! This week, Diane Simmons chats with this year’s guest anthology editor, Sophie van Llewyn, about writing, history, novellas-in-flash, and what she’d like to see in 2020 NFFD anthology submissions…. Diane: Together with Ingrid … Read more
Welcome to the fourth in a series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology editors and microfiction competition judges! This week, Diane Simmons chats with one of this year’s microfiction competition judges, Susmita Bhattacharya, about her recent short story collection, performing her work, and historical flash, as well as her thoughts on … Read more
Welcome to the third in a series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology editors and microfiction competition judges! This week, Diane Simmons chats with one of this year’s microfiction competition judges, Rob Walton, about death, love, infidelity and writing, not to mention what he’s looking for when judging our micro competition… … Read more