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Happy New Year from all of us at National Flash Fiction Day! Are you thinking about entering a flash for this year’s anthology? Maybe this year’s ‘Seasons’ theme fired you up, but now you’ve faltered or you’ve just not had time to get going. Come and join Jeanette Sheppard, NFFD’s Artist-in-Residence, in this friendly online … Read more

Welcome to the second of 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, Diane Simmons chats with Rebecca Field, one of this year’s NFFD Microfiction Competition Judges, about favourite authors, childhood … Read more

We are delighted to announce our National Flash Fiction Day Press nominations for the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day season. Congratulations and good luck to the following: Best Small Fictions ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ by Sumitra Singam ‘Off a Duck’s Back’ by Jupiter Jones ‘Quintessence’ by Marie Gethins ‘When The Kingfisher Dives’ by Eleanor Luke ‘White Noise’ … Read more

Welcome to the first of 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 and this interview series will resume in the new year. This week, Diane Simmons chats with James Montgomery, one of … Read more

National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for submissions for our annual Anthology and Microfiction Competition! How is it December already?  Even though summer might feel far away, we’re already busy preparing for the UK’s thirteenth annual National Flash Fiction Day which we’ll be celebrating on 14 June 2025.  We’ve opened submissions to both our Anthology … Read more

With our submission window set to open next week, we’d like to take a moment to introduce you to this year’s judging panel.  This year, we’re excited to announce that Sudha Balagopal, Rebecca Field, James Montgomery and Sherry Morris will be doing it all: reading the submissions that come in, compiling a shortlist, and then … Read more

  We are delighted to welcome Cheryl Markosky to the National Flash Fiction Day team as this year’s guest editor for the 2025 National Flash Fiction Day anthology. She’ll be joining NFFD’s Anthology Editor Karen Jones in putting together this year’s anthology of flash fiction from around the world.  You can read more about this … Read more

Huge thanks to Anita Goveas for her fantastic workshop this morning.  If you missed out, then you’re in luck: Click here for a recording of today‘s session. We are truly grateful to Anita for offering an annual National Flash Fiction Day workshop free of charge for several years running.  All NFFD projects are volunteer run, … Read more

The UK’s National Flash Fiction Day launches at midnight! If you’d like a little something to distract you from the wait, have a look at the amazing things New Zealand’s National Flash Fiction Day has lined up…. (NFFD NZ is completely independent from our UK-based NFFD project, but we’re certainly kindred spirits!) There’s so much … Read more

This year we have a whole new set of badges you can collect over at our sister project, The Write-In. Over the course of National Flash Fiction Day, we’re publishing one prompt per hour for a total of 25 prompts. You have until Sunday 16 June at 23:59 BST to submit them for possible publication … Read more