We're delighted to introduce the title and cover of our newest anthology, Tiny Sparks Everywhere: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2024.  It will launch on 15 June 2024, but you can pre-order here.       Thanks to Jennifer Brutschy, author of the eponymous story and to our artist-in-residence Jeanette Sheppard who provided the cover image. We're excited to share the anthology itself with you in less than a month ..read more

To celebrate National Flash Fiction Day 2024, we're hosting a live event in Birmingham on Saturday, 15 June 2024, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. BST. Join us for two flash workshops, a panel presentation and the launch of the 2024 NFFD Anthology, complete with readings from some of this year's authors. You can read more on our events page and you can book your ticket here (on EventBrite), but hurry -- space is limited and we expect to sell out. Tickets are free, but donations are very gratefully received.     ..read more

And the results are in! Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title): First Prize: ‘Frost Fair’ by Josie Turner Second Prize: ‘The Attempts of Arlo, Age 9, to Create a Shooting Star After Learning They Are Just Rocks Moving Very Fast’ by Leila Murton Poole Third Prize: ‘Sex, Sighs and Masking Tape’ by Chris Cottom Highly Commended: ‘Everyone Said It Was Pointless Trying to Date a Girl Obsessed With Marine Arthropods but I Had to Find out for Myself’ by Rebecca Field Highly Commended: ‘Granny’s Biggest Handicraft Project to Date’ by An ..read more

After reading scads of brilliant stories on the theme of AIR, EARTH, WATER AND FIRE, editors Karen Jones and Sara Hills have finalised their selections for the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the third annual Editors' Choice Awards. Below is the list of the stories that will appear in this year's anthology, alongside the 2024 Microfiction Competition winners (yet to be announced).  We will be contacting everyone on the list via email, so you should hear from us soon if you haven't already, but in the meantime, congratulations to all the authors listed below. Special cong ..read more

This year, we were thrilled to receive 419 entries to the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition. Our judges, Sara Chansarkar, Jan Kaneen, David Rhymes and Alison Wassell had the difficult job of whittling down the stories to a shortlist of 30. This was no easy task and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for their hard work and for the speed and conscientiousness with which they carried out the judging. It isn’t easy to tell a story in a 100 words, yet we were blown away by the variety of themes, subjects and styles we saw in the submissions. Thank you to everyone w ..read more

There's still time to submit to the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and the 2024 Microfiction Competition, but be quick — our submission window closes tonight at 11:59pm GMT! For the 2024 Anthology, we're looking for flash up to 500 words on the theme is – AIR, EARTH, WATER AND FIRE.  Your work will be read by editors Karen Jones and Sara Hills.  Selected work will be published in our 2024 print/ebook anthology and be considered for our Editors' Choice Awards which come with a £50 prize.  You can read our submission details here. For our Microfiction Competition, we're ..read more

This is just a friendly reminder that National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and the 2024 Microfiction Competition projects are only open for submissions for one more day.   Submissions close at 23:59 GMT on 15 February 2024. For the 2024 Anthology, we're looking for flash up to 500 words on the theme is – AIR, EARTH, WATER AND FIRE.  Your work will be read by editors Karen Jones and Sara Hills.  Selected work will be published in our 2024 print/ebook anthology and be considered for our Editors' Choice Awards which come with a £50 prize.  You can read our submission deta ..read more

Welcome to the seventh and final of our 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 2024. This week, NFFD's Ingrid Jendrzejewski chats with NFFD's Diane Simmons, the person responsible for administrating the Microfiction Competition year in and year out, about novellas-in-flash, reading techniques, travel, and her experience administrating the competition. IJ: For years, you’ve been the mastermind behind the NFFD interview series, com ..read more

We are delighted to announce our Best Small Fictions nominations for the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day season. Congratulations and good luck to the following: 'Cuttlefish' by Patricia Q. Bidar 'Grapefruit in June' by Kik Lodge 'Then, Now' by Marie Gethins 'Time Takes' by Anne Summerfield 'You Die First' by Andy Lavender You can read all these stories and more in print or via ebook in Scratching the Sands: 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, available from the National Flash Fiction Day Bookshop. Congratulations as well to the Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction nominees of our ..read more

Welcome to the sixth in our 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 2024. This week, NFFD's Diane Simmons chats with Alison Wassell, one of this year's NFFD Microfiction Competition Judges, about everything from titles to short story writing to her advice for those entering the Microfiction Competition....   DS: Thank you for agreeing to be one of the micro fiction judges. Do you have any advice for anyone who has never writt ..read more