{"id":1272,"date":"2021-03-17T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:45:53","slug":"2021-microfiction-competition-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/2021-microfiction-competition-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Microfiction Competition Winners Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The results of the 2021 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition are in!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This year we awarded first, second and third prizes, together with seven highly commended flashes. All ten stories will receive prize money and will be published in the 2021 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, which will be out in time for National Flash Fiction Day on 26 June 2021.\u00a0 The winning and highly commended stories can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/competition\/2021-microfiction-results\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Thank you to our four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/competition\/2021-microfiction-judges\/\">judges<\/a>. Their job this year was extremely difficult, requiring extra rounds of voting to reach our final ten.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s competition was judged by:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rachael Dunlop<\/li>\n<li>K M Elkes<\/li>\n<li>Sharon Telfer<\/li>\n<li>Alison Woodhouse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>FIRST PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Tea Time&#8217; by Susan James<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SECOND PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Last Supper&#8217; by Faye Brinsmead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THIRD PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Amalgamation&#8217; by Johanna Robinson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HIGHLY COMMENDED (in alphabetical order)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Adverb&#8217; by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Burning Boy&#8217; by Sam Payne<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;A Cyclist&#8217; by Anne Howkins<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Doll Hospital&#8217; by Rosie\u00a0Garland<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Long Twilight&#8217; By Tracey\u00a0Weller<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Sirens&#8217; By Caoimh\u00edn\u00a0de\u00a0Paor<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Summer Breeze&#8217; by Paul Dicken<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations again to all our prize-winning and highly commended authors, and to all those who were shortlisted. And, a big thank you to everyone who entered this year\u2019s competition and trusted us with their stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the 2021 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition are in! This year we awarded first, second and third prizes, together with seven highly commended flashes. All ten stories will receive prize money and will be published in the 2021 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, which will be out in time for National &#8230; <a title=\"2021 Microfiction Competition Winners Announced!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/2021-microfiction-competition-winners-announced\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2021 Microfiction Competition Winners Announced!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}