Save the Date: 12 June 2027 will be the next National Flash Fiction Day!
Welcome to the first in this year’s 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 and the next interview in this series will post in January 2023. This week, Diane Simmons chats with Damhnait … Read more
We are delighted to announce our 2022 Award Nominations for National Flash Fiction Day Press. You can read all these pieces in And We Lived Happily Ever After: 2022 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, available at our Bookshop in both print and ebook formats. Best Small Fictions ‘Ancrene Wisse’ by Cate Haynes ‘And We Lived … 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 24 June 2023. We’ve opened submissions to both our Anthology and Microfiction Competition projects and … Read more
It’s nearly that time of year again…time to submit to the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and our annual Microfiction Competition! We are delighted to welcome Damhnait Monaghan to the National Flash Fiction Day team as this year’s guest editor for the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day anthology. She’ll be joining NFFD’s Anthology Editor Karen … Read more
With our submission window set to open shortly we’d like to take a moment to introduce you to this year’s judging panel. This year, we’re excited to announce that Tim Craig, Amanda Huggins, Fiona J. Mackintosh and Johanna Robinson will be reading your submissions. These fantastic flash writers, readers and editors will be doing it … Read more
National Flash Fiction Day might be over, but the flashy fun continues through the weekend…. Over at The Write-In, we’ve started publishing our first responses to 2022’s writing prompts. Remember, you have until 23:59 on Sunday, 19 June 2022 to send us a response to our writing prompts for a chance of publication at The … Read more
Our team is loving all the responses to our series of writing prompts over at The Write-In. We’ve been reading all day long and we’re getting ready to start publishing our favourites starting at midnight and carrying on until we’ve read everything you’ve sent us! We’re publishing 25 prompts — one every hour from 00:00 … Read more
We’ve still got several hours left of our veritable flood of flash over at FlashFlood, National Flash Fiction Day’s curated journal; we’ve been publishing a flash every five to ten minutes since 00:01 and will continue to midnight BST. However, there’s even more to look forward to tomorrow! Join us from 8:00 a.m. BST at … Read more
We’re thrilled to be launching our eleventh National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, And We Lived Happily Ever After, edited by Karen Jones and Christopher Drew. We’re celebrating with a virtual anthology launch, online from 7 p.m. BST on Facebook. From 7 p.m., four videos of anthology readings will be posted every quarter of an hour. … Read more
Huge thanks to Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique for their brilliant workshop this morning. If you missed out, then you’re in luck: Click here for a recording of today’s session. You’ll need to enter the password jz?^tq0H to access the workshop. The link to the handout is here: NFFD 2022 Writing Workshop with Anita Goveas … Read more