Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
Well, hello there, and how are you? Keeping well I hope, now that the evenings are drawing in and winter is looming over the horizon. Here in NFFD Towers we are using the cold outside as an excuse to seclude ourselves in darkened drawing rooms and start plotting for next year’s Flash-Fiction Day, and I … Read more
I just had to write a roundup of the day for the Arts Council. I was amazed to re-explore all that went on, and thought you might like a read. So here it is! The intention for National Flash-Fiction Day (NFFD) was to encourage writers, publishers, readers and the general public of the UK to … Read more
Following the events of last Wednesday – for which another hearty thanks should go to you all! – lots of people have been writing about what happened, what they did, where they went, and what they wrote. So, I thought they should be gathered together for you all to read. I’m sure this isn’t exhaustive, … Read more
Well, that about wraps it up for this, the first ever National Flash-Fiction Day. I’m back from a wonderful launch at the Southampton Central Library where we had brilliant readings from Vanessa Gebbie, Sara Crowley, Tim Stevenson, Natalie Bowers, Gail Aldwin, Holly Howitt and, at the last minute, Bob Jacobs and Brendan Way. Massive thanks … Read more
As our contribution to National Flash Fiction Day 2012, run by director Calum Kerr, Flash Fiction World held a competition for stories built around a famous phrase. The response was fantastic and FFW thanks all entrants for their participation. There were some superb entries, but as usual they had to be whittled down to first, … Read more
Firstly, we’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered and promoted the #OUATWRITING contest. We had 88 fantastic entries and it was a huge struggle to pick just 3 of these as our winners. We had everything from evil Cinderellas to sci-fi to modern day tales and it was a delight to … Read more
I’ve been writing – and writing about – flash fiction for a while now and I love how diverse a discipline it can be. Ask me my definition and I bet it’ll be different to what you were told last time, and different again to what you’re told next. And that’s what’s so great about … Read more
There’s less than three weeks to go before the first National Flash-Fiction Day is upon us, and two days before THAT, I’m going to be running a flash-fiction workshop in Manchester City Library. The event’s sold out now, but you can still sign up to get on the wait-list, if you’re interested. And to get … Read more
It’s #StorySunday over on Twitter. In case you don’t know what that means, people but the ‘hashtag’ #StorySunday into their tweets and post a link to a story they like. I’ve been watching it this morning and a number of people are posting their links to stories which won the first National Flash-Fiction Day micro-fiction … Read more