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The Official NFFD 2024 Roadmap The UK’s National Flash Fiction Day starts at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 15 June 2024. Here’s your handy guide to what’s happening when…. Read with us! For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 24 June, FlashFlood, NFFD’s curated online journal, will be publishing one flash every 5 … Read more

Huge congratulations to Patricia Q. Bidar whose piece ‘Cuttlefish’ was chosen for the 2024 edition of Best Small Fictions. This flash first appeared in Scratching the Sands: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023 which is available in our Bookshop. You can find out more about Best Small Fictions series here. Congratulations again to Patricia Q. … Read more

National Flash Fiction Day is only a week away!  We’re preparing for a day of workshops and readings in Birmingham, but if you can’t join us there, we have two free online workshops on offer on Saturday, 15 June 2024 via Zoom.  They’re free, but places are limited.  Here’s what’s on offer and how to … Read more

We’re delighted to introduce the title and cover of our newest anthology, Tiny Sparks Everywhere: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2024.  It will launch on 15 June 2024, but you can pre-order here.       Thanks to Jennifer Brutschy, author of the eponymous story and to our artist-in-residence Jeanette Sheppard who provided the cover … Read more

We are delighted to announce that FlashFlood will be open for submissions from 12:01 a.m. BST on Sunday, 21 April to 23:59 BST on Saturday, 27 April 2024. You can read our submission guidelines here, and read about this year’s editors here. We’re looking for submissions of up to 300 words on any theme.  (Shorter … Read more

To celebrate National Flash Fiction Day 2024, we’re hosting a live event in Birmingham on Saturday, 15 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 2024 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: ‘Frost Fair’ by Josie Turner Second Prize: ‘The Attempts of Arlo, Age 9, to Create a Shooting Star After Learning They Are Just Rocks Moving Very Fast’ by Leila Murton Poole Third Prize: ‘Sex, … Read more

After reading scads of brilliant stories on the theme of AIR, EARTH, WATER AND FIRE, editors Karen Jones and Sara Hills have finalised their selections for the 2024 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, … Read more

This year, we were thrilled to receive 419 entries to the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition. Our judges, Sara Chansarkar, Jan Kaneen, David Rhymes and Alison Wassell had the difficult job of whittling down the stories to a shortlist of 30. This was no easy task and we’d like to take this opportunity … Read more

There’s still time to submit to the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and the 2024 Microfiction Competition, but be quick — our submission window closes tonight at 11:59pm GMT! For the 2024 Anthology, we’re looking for flash up to 500 words on the theme is – AIR, EARTH, WATER AND FIRE.  Your work will … Read more