National Flash Fiction Day Celebrations
22 June 2018
in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and Kawakawa
Guest speakers include Sue Wootton, Vaughan Rapatahana, Patrick Pink, Tim Jones, Jac Jenkins, Jennifer Lane and Wellington Mayor, Justin Lester
Flash fiction and micros
NFFD Awards – Regional Awards
Spot prizes
Listen to the winning stories from the 2018 NFFD competitions.
All welcome.
Find an event near you: https://nationalflash.org/events/
22 JUNE 2018 – National Flash Fiction Day
June 22, 2018 is our shortest day of the year — and the day we know and love as National Flash Fiction Day.
The competition this year will open February 15 – April 30. The 2017 judges are acclaimed short story writers, novelists and poets Tracey Slaughter and Sue Wootton.
The youth category will be judged in 2018 by acclaimed short story writer and poet Tim Jones and NFFD 2017 winner Patrick Pink.
This year, we are also adding a te reo M?ori prize in both youth and adult categories, judged by Vaughan Rapatahana.
More about the judges on the Competition page. Guidelines for the 2018 competition will be posted early February.
Winners will be announced this year at our main events in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Northland. National awards, regional awards, micro awards, guest readers and more!
This year, we will also run the fourth annual Micro Madness series, in which 22 micros will be selected for inclusion, and three winners will be selected from the 22 finalists. Previous Micro Madness winners can be found here; the 2016 Tiny Tales series is here.
Last year’s winning stories were published in a special issue of Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction.
More news and updates, including other publications and competitions involving New Zealand writers of compressed fiction, can be found on our Flash News page.
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COMPETITION
National Flash Fiction Day is New Zealand’s celebration of the shortest form of fiction writing, on the shortest day of the year. See the Competition page for details about the 2018 competition. See interviews with the 2017 winners here: Patrick Pink (adult), Joy Tong (youth).
The 2012-15 competitions saw approximately 300 entries; 2016 and 2017 were banner times for flash fiction, with over 500 submissions each year.
You can find the winners from previous years by clicking on the tabs at the top of the page. And you can read them, published at Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction. See the Archives page for links.
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EVENTS
National Flash Fiction Day celebrates each year with prize-giving ceremonies and presentations by the judges as well as readings key flash all across Aotearoa. Our main events will take place take place simultaneously in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Northland, on June 22. Details about the 2017 events will be posted on our Events page.