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This is just a friendly reminder that National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and the 2024 Microfiction Competition projects are only open for submissions for one more day.   Submissions close at 23:59 GMT on 15 February 2024. For the 2024 Anthology, we’re looking for flash up to 500 words on the theme is – AIR, EARTH, … Read more

Welcome to the seventh and final 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 2024. This week, NFFD’s Ingrid Jendrzejewski chats with NFFD’s Diane Simmons, the person responsible for administrating the Microfiction Competition … Read more

We are delighted to announce our Best Small Fictions nominations for the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day season. Congratulations and good luck to the following: ‘Cuttlefish’ by Patricia Q. Bidar ‘Grapefruit in June’ by Kik Lodge ‘Then, Now’ by Marie Gethins ‘Time Takes’ by Anne Summerfield ‘You Die First’ by Andy Lavender You can read … Read more

Welcome to the sixth 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 2024. This week, NFFD’s Diane Simmons chats with Alison Wassell, one of this year’s NFFD Microfiction Competition Judges, about everything from … Read more

Welcome to the fifth 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 2024 and we’ll be posting weekly interviews over the next couple weeks. This week, NFFD’s Diane Simmons chats with Sara Siddiqui … Read more

Welcome to the fourth 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 2024 and we’ll be posting weekly interviews over the next couple weeks. This week, NFFD’s Diane Simmons chats with David Rhymes, … Read more

Welcome to the third 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 2024 and we’ll be posting weekly interviews over the next four weeks. This week, NFFD’s Diane Simmons chats with , one … Read more

Happy New Year and welcome to the second 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 2024 and we’ll be posting weekly interviews over the next five weeks. This week, Diane Simmons chats … Read more

We are delighted to announce our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominations. Congratulations and good luck to the following: ‘All my lovers’ by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar ‘Cuttlefish’ by Patricia Q. Bidar ‘Javelin Girl’ by Rebecca Field ‘Time Takes’ by Anne Summerfield ‘Were You Ever There’ by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris ‘Venus of Willendorf’ by Pam Plumb You can read … Read more

National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for submissions to our annual Anthology and Microfiction Competition! It may be cold and dark outside, but we’re getting ready for the UK’s twelfth annual National Flash Fiction Day which we’ll be celebrating on 15 June 2024.  We’ve opened submissions to both our Anthology and Microfiction Competition projects and … Read more