{"id":1929,"date":"2023-03-10T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:01:38","slug":"national-flash-fiction-day-2023-anthology-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/national-flash-fiction-day-2023-anthology-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"National Flash Fiction Day 2023 Anthology Line Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading scads of briilant stories on the theme of <strong>TIME<\/strong>, Karen Jones and Damhnait Monaghan have finalised their selections for the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the second annual Editors&#8217; Choice Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the list of the 50 stories that will appear in this year&#8217;s anthology, alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/national-flash-fiction-day-2023-microfiction-competition-results\/\">2023 Microfiction Competition Winners<\/a>.\u00a0 We will be contacting everyone on the list via email, so you should hear from us soon if you haven&#8217;t already, but in the meantime, congratulations to all the authors listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Special congratulations to our two Editors&#8217; Choice Award Winners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Damhnait Monaghan chose <i>Cuttlefish <\/i>by Patricia Q. Bidar<\/li>\n<li>Karen Jones chose <em>Time Takes<\/em> by Anne Summerfield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you so much to everybody who submitted their stories for consideration for this year&#8217;s anthology. It was an honour to read each and every piece.\u00a0 Thank you for sharing your work with us!\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t make the anthology this time, don&#8217;t forget that there are still opportunities to join us in celebrating National Flash Fiction Day, including <a href=\"http:\/\/flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com\/\">FlashFlood<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thewrite-in.blogspot.com\/\">The Write-In<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that you will all join us for the launch of the anthology on National Flash Fiction Day later this year!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Line Up<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>1969<\/em> by Kathryn Kulpa<\/li>\n<li><em>ABC<\/em> by Benjamin Judge<\/li>\n<li><em>A Heatwave Afternoon in The Supermarket, in The Universe That is Ours, <\/em><em>Momentarily<\/em> by Rachael Dunlop<\/li>\n<li><em>A Hedge of Holly<\/em> by Roberta Beary<\/li>\n<li><em>A Seed Drops<\/em> by Sharon Telfer<\/li>\n<li><em>Black Sun<\/em> by Audrey Niven<\/li>\n<li><em>Bruce Lee Lives<\/em> by Seamus Scanlon<\/li>\n<li><em>Cuttlefish<\/em> by Patricia Q. Bidar<\/li>\n<li><em>Disappointment at Not Visiting the SS Great Britain<\/em> by Emma Phillips<\/li>\n<li><em>Ember Days<\/em> by Rosaleen Lynch<\/li>\n<li><em>Five Colour Clearance<\/em> by Rupert Dastur<\/li>\n<li><em>Gap Years<\/em> by Julia Ruth Smith<\/li>\n<li><em>Grapefruit in June<\/em> by Kik Lodge<\/li>\n<li><em>Haute Couture<\/em> by Teika Marija Smits<\/li>\n<li><em>How to Go Back and Start Again<\/em> by Fiona McKay<\/li>\n<li><em>How to Sleep on Friday Night<\/em> by Mandira Pattnaik<\/li>\n<li><em>In the Time It Takes to Boil the Kettle<\/em> by Sharon Boyle<\/li>\n<li><em>I Want David Attenborough to Talk About Me in Hushed Tones<\/em> by Kristina Thornton<\/li>\n<li><em>Javelin Girl<\/em> by Rebecca Field<\/li>\n<li><em>Just One Big Happy Family<\/em> by Cheryl Markosky<\/li>\n<li><em>Last Orders for Lost Souls, The Lost Chance Saloon<\/em> by Kate Axeford<\/li>\n<li><em>Look Both Ways<\/em> by D. Dina Friedman<\/li>\n<li><em>Mirrors<\/em> by Anita Goveas<\/li>\n<li><em>Now, Go Back<\/em> by Sara Hills<\/li>\n<li><em>Our Golden Hours<\/em> by Steven Patchett<\/li>\n<li><em>Our Tide Turns<\/em> by Marie Gethins<\/li>\n<li><em>Peeker-Hole<\/em> by Angela Joynes<\/li>\n<li><em>Rain Days in Biodome Three<\/em> by Lindsey Croal<\/li>\n<li><em>Rewind<\/em> by Philip Charter<\/li>\n<li><em>Scheele\u2019s Green<\/em> by Rosaleen Lynch<\/li>\n<li><em>Scratching the Sands<\/em> by Christine Collinson<\/li>\n<li><em>Slugs in the Kitchen<\/em> by Rebecca Field<\/li>\n<li><em>Spring Back<\/em> by Mick Bennett<\/li>\n<li><em>The Leftovers<\/em> by Eleonora Balsano<\/li>\n<li><em>Then, Now<\/em> by Marie Gethins<\/li>\n<li><em>The music of absence, Berlin 1989<\/em> by Maria Thomas<\/li>\n<li><em>The Paperbark Trees<\/em> by Helena Pantsis<\/li>\n<li><em>The Philistines Ring the Doorbell<\/em> by Isabel Yacura<\/li>\n<li><em>The Three Times I Loved You The Most In Water<\/em> by Nicole Davis<\/li>\n<li><em>Time Takes<\/em> by Anne Summerfield<\/li>\n<li><em>Were You Ever There?<\/em> by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris<\/li>\n<li><em>We Tried<\/em> by Kim Magowan<\/li>\n<li><em>What\u2019s been said about slate<\/em> by Ruth Bradshaw<\/li>\n<li><em>What the Well Knows<\/em> by Catherine Ogston<\/li>\n<li><em>When There Was No Word for Angel<\/em> by Emma Phillips<\/li>\n<li><em>Where Are You?<\/em> by Nuala O\u2019Connor<\/li>\n<li><em>White Rabbit<\/em> by Nora Nadjarian<\/li>\n<li><em>Wood Wide Web<\/em> by Karen Arnold<\/li>\n<li><em>Venus of Willendorf<\/em> by Pam Plumb<\/li>\n<li><em>You Die First<\/em> by Andy Lavender<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; Choice Awards. Below is the list of the 50 stories that will appear in this year&#8217;s anthology, alongside the 2023 Microfiction &#8230; <a title=\"National Flash Fiction Day 2023 Anthology Line Up\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/national-flash-fiction-day-2023-anthology-line-up\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about National Flash Fiction Day 2023 Anthology Line Up\">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-1929","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\/1929","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=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}