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Good afternoon, flashers! We are now in our seventh year of National Flash Fiction Day! As always, both our micro fiction competition and annual anthology encourage hundreds of you to send us your best flashes, and this year was no different. Both competitions were incredibly fierce this year, but I can finally share with you all some … Read more
Submissions for National Flash Fiction Day 2018 are now open, but the deadlines are coming up fast! You have until Saturday 17th March 2018 to send us up to three micro fictions on any theme for our Micro fiction competition. That’s less than a week left! These must be 100 words or fewer. More details about … Read more
Hello everyone, Yes, it’s here again. This is the sixth National Flash-Fiction Day (and they said it wouldn’t last). As ever, there are a number of events happening all over the UK and beyond, details of which you can read on our website at http://host2021.temp.domains/~nationo0/events.html Earlier in the year, we ran our micro-fiction competition, and you … Read more
Welcome to Sleep is a Beautiful Colour: National Flash Fiction Day 2017 Anthology, edited by Santino Prinzi and Meg Pokrass. We are currently very busy proofreading the anthology, and the feedback from our proofreaders has been outstanding! They’re all very excited about this anthology, as are we, and we hope you are too! We’ll let … Read more
Assembly of the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day anthology is well underway. The theme for this year’s anthology is Life As You Know It.We’re thrilled to announce that this year’s anthology will be called Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour, taken from a brilliant and funny story by Helen Rye.We’ve also managed to include a series … Read more
Well, we’ve finally made it through to the other side, and now we are able to announce the stories which have made it into this year’s National Flash-Fiction Day anthology.We received over 500 stories, closer to 600 stories really (182,000 words, or thereabouts) and these are the 50 which made it in. So, if you … Read more
Well, it feels as if it was only yesterday that we announced the longlist for our 100-word micro-fiction competition for 2017. And it was. But now, without having kept you waiting for too long, we’re pleased to present the winners. As I said in the last post, we had nearly 600 entries for this year’s … Read more
Hello Flash Writers! Thank you all for your patience. Our annual competition attracts hundreds of entries from across the globe. This year we received nearly 600 entriesto our Micro–Fiction competition, which is mindboggling! We’d like to thank you all for entering and sending us such marvellous, tiny tales! Ourspecial thanks go to our incredible judges: … Read more
Yes, it’s finally here, after all that waiting, the 5th (can you believe it?) annual celebration of the small story-form we all know and love. Now, I know that you, like me, might be a little worse for wear after the last couple of days, and 2016 has taken a toll on us all, but … Read more
Interested in our Flash Walk in Bristol this Saturday? Want to know the line-up of stories? Sure you do! · The Harbour Festival by AA Abbott· Harbouring Friendship by Diane Tatlock· Johnny Pencloud by Juliet Hagan· Altitude by Judy Darley· On Pero’s Bridge by Holly Atkinson · Your Name is Pero Jones by Ingrid Jendrzejewski · Dolphins by Lucho Payne · A Thousand … Read more