Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
We are delighted to announce that FlashFlood will be open for submissions from 12:01 a.m. BST on Sunday, 30 April to 23:59 BST on Saturday, 6 May. 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 pieces … Read more
After reading scads of briilant stories on the theme of TIME, Karen Jones and Damhnait Monaghan have finalised their selections for the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the second annual Editors’ Choice Awards. Below is the list of the 50 stories that will appear in this year’s anthology, alongside the 2023 Microfiction … Read more
And the results are in! Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title): First Prize: ‘All my lovers’ by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar Second Prize: ‘Shouting in Silence’ by Fiona Barker Joint Third Prize: ‘The Boy in the Leopard Skin Shorts’ by Alan S. Falkingham Joint Third Prize: ‘Afterbirth’ by … Read more
There’s still time to submit to the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and the 2023 Microfiction Competition, but be quick — our submission window closes tonight at 11:59pm GMT! For the 2023 Anthology, we’re looking for flash up to 500 words on the theme is TIME. Your work will be read by editors Karen … Read more
This is just a friendly reminder that National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and the 2023 Microfiction Competition projects are only open for submissions for one more day. For the 2023 Anthology, we’re looking for flash up to 500 words on the theme is TIME. Your work will be read by editors Karen Jones and Damhnait … Read more
Welcome to the fifth and final 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 2023. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Tim Craig, one of this year’s Microfiction Competition judges, about collections, titles, … 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 2023. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Amanda Huggins, one of this year’s Microfiction Competition judges, about poetry, prose, pressure and … 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 2023. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Johanna Robinson, one of this year’s Microfiction Competition judges, about novellas-in-flash, historical fiction and … Read more
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 2023. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Fiona J. Mackintosh, one of this year’s Microfiction Competition judges, about everything from flash … Read more
We’ll be resuming our 2023 interview series with this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology editors and Microfiction Competition judges next week, but in the meantime, we thought we’d revisit NFFD’s Anthology Editor Karen Jones’ advice for anthology submitters from her 3 January 2022 interview with Diane Simmons. Submissions for the Anthology and Microfiction Competition … Read more