The 2021 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition will be judged by:
- Rachael Dunlop
- Ken Elkes
- Sharon Telfer
- Alison Woodhouse
Submissions are open from 1 December 2020 to 15 February 2021.
Rachael Dunlop grew up in Belfast and now lives in London. She started writing flash fiction in 2009 when she won the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge. And thus an addiction to short-short fiction was born. Since then, her short and flash fiction has been published in anthologies from National Flash Fiction Day, Bath Flash Award, Bath Short Story Award, The Scottish Arts Club, Retreat West, and Stories for Homes. She has also been widely published online, including at FlashBack Fiction, Lunate Fiction, Flash Flood Journal, and Words with Jam. Her name regularly appears on various competition long and short lists, and occasionally she even wins things. Her flash fiction has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. She alternates writing short fiction with efforts to produce a publishable novel. Her two attempts so far have both been longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and remain works in progress.
K.M. Elkes is the author of the flash fiction collection All That Is Between Us (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2019), which was shortlisted for a 2020 Saboteur Award. His flash stories have won, or been placed, in competitions including the Bath Flash Fiction Award, Reflex Fiction Prize, Fish Publishing Flash Prize and the Bridport Prize. His work featured in the Best Microfiction anthology 2020, and he has been a Best Small Fictions and Pushcart nominee. His stories have appeared in more than 40 literary anthologies and journals. He is also an award-winning short story writer and has been successful in competitions such as the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Award and the BBC National Short Story Award. A short fiction tutor for Comma Press, he also runs flash fiction workshops online and at literary events. As an author from a rural working-class background, his work often reflects marginalised voices and places. Twitter: @kenelkes
Sharon Telfer cut her micro teeth on the weekly @AdHocFiction competitions. Her flash fiction has won prizes, including the Bath Flash Fiction Award (2020 and 2016) and the Reflex Flash Fiction Prize (2018). Her stories have also been chosen for the ‘BIFFY50’ (2019 and 2020) and Best Microfiction 2019. She’s a founding editor at FlashBack Fiction, the online litmag showcasing historical flash.
She grew up on Teesside and now lives in the Yorkshire Wolds. In 2018, she was the New Writing North/Word Factory Short Story Apprentice. She placed second in the 2020 Bath Short Story Award. Another story has been selected for the Test Signal anthology of the best contemporary Northern writing, to be published by Dead Ink Books and Bloomsbury in 2021. She tweets @sharontelfer.
Alison Woodhouse is a writer and teacher. Her flash fiction and short stories have been widely published and anthologised, including In the Kitchen (Dahlia Press), With One Eyes on the Cows (Bath flash fiction), Leicester Writes 2018 & 2020 (Dahlia Press), The Real Jazz Baby (Reflex), A Girl’s Guide go Fishing (Reflex), National Flash Fiction Day Anthologies and Life on the Margins (Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards). She has won a number of story competitions including Flash 500, Hastings, HISSAC (flash & short story), NFFD micro, Biffy50, Farnham, Adhoc and Limnisa and been placed in many others. In 2019 she was awarded an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. Her debut novella-in-flash The House on the Corner is published by AdHoc Fiction. Contact her at:
alisonwoodhouse.com
Twitter: @AJWoodhouse
Facebook: Alison Woodhouse