{"id":2749,"date":"2026-02-15T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:00:47","slug":"nffd-our-submission-window-closes-at-midnight-gmt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/nffd-our-submission-window-closes-at-midnight-gmt\/","title":{"rendered":"NFFD: Our submission window closes at midnight (GMT)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for submissions for our annual Anthology and Microfiction Competition until 23:59 (GMT) tonight, 15 February 2026!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is our final reminder that our submission window closes tonight at midnight GMT.\u00a0 We are excited to read work from anyone and everyone, all around the world.<\/p>\n<p>For the <strong>2026 Anthology<\/strong>, we&#8217;re looking for flash up to <strong>500 words<\/strong> on the theme of\u00a0<strong>BRIDGES<\/strong>.\u00a0 Your work will be read by editors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2026-anthology-editors\/\">Karen Jones and Sharon Telfer<\/a>.\u00a0 Selected work will be published in our 2026 print\/ebook anthology and be considered for our Editors&#8217; Choice Awards which come with a \u00a350 prize.\u00a0 You can read our submission details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/anthology\/anthology-submission-guidelines\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For our <strong>Microfiction Competition<\/strong>, we&#8217;re looking for flash of up to <strong>100 words<\/strong>.\u00a0 There is <strong>no theme<\/strong>.\u00a0 Your work will be read by judges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2026-microfiction-judges\/\">Joanna Campbell, Debra A. Daniel, Emily Devane, and David Swann<\/a>.\u00a0 Winners and runners-up will receive cash prizes and be published online and in our print\/ebook anthology.\u00a0 Full submission details can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/competition\/competition-submission-guidelines\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our Anthology and Microfiction Competition teams look forward to reading your work!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Flash Fiction Day is OPEN for submissions for our annual Anthology and Microfiction Competition until 23:59 (GMT) tonight, 15 February 2026! This is our final reminder that our submission window closes tonight at midnight GMT.\u00a0 We are excited to read work from anyone and everyone, all around the world. For the 2026 Anthology, we&#8217;re &#8230; <a title=\"NFFD: Our submission window closes at midnight (GMT)!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/nffd-our-submission-window-closes-at-midnight-gmt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NFFD: Our submission window closes at midnight (GMT)!\">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-2749","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\/2749","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=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}