Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
We’re delighted and excited to welcome Jeanette Sheppard to the team as National Flash Fiction Day’s official Artist in Residence. Not only did Jeanette provide some images for one of last month’s Flash Flood Advent Calendar writing prompts, but she has also produced the stunning skyline that now graces our website. Where is this city … Read more
What better way to end the year than with some flash fiction fun? Come and join us at Flash Flood for an Advent Calendar full of free writing prompts designed to give you a great head start when submissions open in 2019 for the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and Microfiction Content , not to … Read more
We’d like to welcome to the National Flash Fiction Day team our newest member, Claire Thomson, who will be our Volunteer Social Media Co-ordinator! Claire is currently an Editorial Assistant at Vintage Books. Before this, she worked in a press office and for a feminist literary magazine. From Scotland, she studied English Literature at the … Read more
Volunteer Social Media Co-ordinator National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD) is seeking a Volunteer Social Media Co-ordinator. The main purpose of the role is to manage NFFD’s social media channels (Facebook and Twitter) by sharing news, promoting submissions opportunities, events and our anthologies, and showcasing flash fiction that we’ve published for our followers to enjoy! The … Read more
On Saturday 16th June this year, National Flash Fiction Day celebrated its seventh year! NFFD was founded in 2012 by Calum Kerr, and since then we have published hundreds of flash fictions by hundreds of different authors across anthologies, FlashFlood, and other flashy projects! We’ve had numerous readings, launches, workshops, and other events around the country to celebrate … Read more
Yes, it’s here again. And this is a short bulletin just to bring you up to date on all that is happening today. We have, of course, the FlashFlood which starts at midnight and runs all the way through the day. A story will be published every 10 minutes on the blog, with a few extras across … Read more
In case you don’t know, this year National Flash-Fiction Day will be on 16th June. And, as ever, we have a range of things going on. The main launch for the day will once again be in Bristol, where there will be a Flash Walk, two workshops (one by Alison Powell and one by me, Calum … Read more
We are thrilled to reveal the cover for Ripening: National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology 2018. This seventh annual instalment of the National Flash-Fiction Day (UK) anthology is overflowing with food-themed flashes. Satiate your hunger for fiction with these delicious stories by new and established flash fiction writers. The authors have cooked up a smorgasbord of entertaining, … Read more
We’re absolutely thrilled to be able to share the title of this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology, along with our full line-up!This year’s title is borrowed from a stunning and moving flash fiction by Alicia Bakewell. The cover will be revealed in the near future, and below you can read the full line-up of authors … Read more
Before we announce the winners of the micro fiction competition, I want to apologise about a technical issue that meant all of my lovely emails I sent out to authors who entered our micro competition or submitted to the anthology did not send. As usual, there were hundreds and hundreds of submitters. We always send out … Read more