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We’re delighted to introduce the title and cover of our newest anthology, Monsoon: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2025.  It will launch on 14 June 2025, but you can pre-order here. Thanks to Sudha Balagopal, author of the eponymous story and to our artist-in-residence Jeanette Sheppard who provided the cover image. We’re excited to share … Read more

To celebrate National Flash Fiction Day 2025, we’re hosting a live event in Bath on Saturday, 14 June 2024, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. BST. Join us for two flash workshops, a panel presentation and the launch of the 2025 NFFD Anthology, complete with readings from some of this year’s authors. You can read … Read more

And the results are in! Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title): First Prize: ‘A Civil War’ by Sarah Freligh Second Prize: ‘Too Late for Lullabies’ by Martha Lane Third Prize: ‘The Last Summer’ by Dawn Miller Highly Commended: ‘Bible Outtake #1: “A Rabies Scare in West Virginia … Read more

After reading scads of brilliant stories on the theme of SEASONS, editors Karen Jones and Cheryl Markosky have finalised their selections for the 2025 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the third annual Editors’ Choice Awards. Below is the list of the stories that will appear in this year’s anthology, alongside the 2025 Microfiction … Read more

This year, we were thrilled to receive 551 entries to the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition. Our judges, Sudha Balagopal, Rebecca Field, James Montogomery and Sherry Morris had the difficult job of whittling down the stories to a shortlist of 26. This was no easy task and we’d like to take this opportunity to … Read more

National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for Anthology and Microfiction Competitions submissions until 23:59 GMT on Saturday, 15 February 2025! This is a little reminder that submissions close TOMORROW if you’d like to submit flash for consideration in our annual anthology and our microfiction competition.  Word limits are short, so there’s still time to write, … Read more

National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for submissions for our annual Anthology and Microfiction Competition until Saturday, 15 February 2025! This is a little reminder that there is only a week left to submit your flash for consideration in our annual anthology and our microfiction competition — plenty of time for you to draft something … Read more

Welcome to the sixth and final instalment in our series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Editors and Microfiction Competition Judges! Submissions for the Anthology and Microfiction Competition are open until 15 February 2025. This week, NFFD’s Diane Simmons chats with guest editor Cheryl Markosky who is co-editing this year’s anthology. … Read more

If you missed last Thursday’s free Ekphrastic Workshop with National Flash Fiction Day’s Artist-in-Residence Jeanette Sheppard, fear not — we have you covered! Here is the link to a folder with a video of the workshop and a document with Jeanette’s links and resources shared during the presentation: www.bit.ly/nffd2025workshop We attempted to record last Thursday’s … Read more

Welcome to the fifth instalment in our series of interviews with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Editors and Microfiction Competition Judges! Submissions for the Anthology and Microfiction Competition are open until 15 February 2025. This week, NFFD’s Diane Simmons chats with National Flash Fiction Day’s Karen Jones who is co-editing the 2025 anthology … Read more