Thank you all for your FlashFlood submissions. We had an amazing 1650 submissions and choosing the stories to publish was very difficult. Tomorrow, we will publish 218 stories at 5/10 minute intervals. A flood indeed.
So, the flood gates have opened. FlashFlood now open for flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted. You can see details of our guidelines and to see who this year's editors are here:
Very excited to say that we are publishing a whopping 213 flashes in this year's FlashFlood on 24 June. We are also very excited to have received a record number of submissions from debut writers & will publish a debut flash at half past the hour for the 24 hours of the flood.
Very excited to reveal the cover & title of this year's anthology. Many thanks to Jennifer Brutschy for allowing us to use her story title as the title of the anthology & to
@InkLinked
for designing such a wonderful cover. You can pre-order from our bookshop.
NFFD is OPEN for Anthology and Microfiction Competition Submissions! National Flash Fiction Day is celebrating its 10th Anniversary on Saturday, 26 June 2021! To mark the occasion, we’ve upped the prizes for our annual Microfiction Competition and have a…
It can be hard to keep track of all the stories flying by during the FlashFlood, so we've compiled the whole 2023 line-up into one big list so you can more easily find anything you've missed....
Our Editors
@tinoprinzi
and
@nodghosh
have finalised their selections for our anthology on the theme of MAGIC! The list is now up on our website. Thank you so much to everyone for submitting and trusting us with your work:
FlashFlood this year opens on 30 April and runs till 6 May! Stories of up to 300 words. Previously published accepted. A flash will be published on NFFD (24 June) every five or ten minutes. More details soon.
Submissions are now open for our anthology and for our micro competition! This year’s anthology theme is one you’ll really be able to sink your teeth into! See our website for more info, and good luck!
Very excited to announce the theme for this year's anthology, our anthology editors and also the four judges for our micro fiction competition. Subs open on 1 December! You can read all about it here:
We're excited to reveal the cover for our 2023 anthology. Many thanks to
@Collinson26
for allowing us to use the title of her story and to artist-in-residence
@InkLinked
for the beautiful art work. The anthology is now available to pre-order:
Phew, I think we pulled it off! I /think/ that's every story tweeted, technical difficulties and all. If we've missed out your story, let us know. My goodness, what an appropriate flood of an ending to the day! Hooray flash fiction!
Huge thanks to
@judi_walsh
,
@coffeeandpaneer
&
@sarahillswrites
who have been putting in massive amounts of time reading and posting Write-In responses. The team is smaller than usual this year, but the response is turning out to be the biggest we've had so far.... 👏👏👏
Submissions to our anthology and micro fiction competition are now open! Our theme for anthology is EARTH, AIR, FIRE and WATER. Our micro comp (100 words) has no theme. We can't wait to get reading! For more details see below:
Flash Flood closed at 23.59 BST yesterday. We received an amazing 1021 submissions! Thank you to all the editors who worked so hard and to everyone who submitted or supported Flash Flood in any way.
National Flash Fiction Day is tomorrow! Hurrah! FlashFlood starts at 00.01 BST with the spots for debut writers at half past the hour. Flashes will be published every five or ten minutes. Why not take a peek to see what else is happening on the day:
We thrilled to announce to announce the line up for this year's anthology on the theme of air, water, fire and earth. Thank you to everyone who submitted and trusted us with their stories:
Announcing the stories selected for this year's National Flash Fiction Day Anthology! We asked you to send us your best stories on the theme of doors and you did not disappoint!
Congratulations to all of our selected authors! Anthology published in June.
FlashFlood opens for submissions a week today on 21 April). Up to 300 words. Previously published considered. Subs close 28 April! You can read previous year’s stories here:
Submissions for FlashFlood are open from 00.01 BST on 2 May. Up to 300 words. Previously published accepted. We have reserved slots for unpublished fiction writers. All successful flashes will be posted on our blog on NFFD. Details can be found here:
FlashFlood subs are read anonymously & with care. We receive 100s & 100s of subs (thank you), with approx 50 per cent of those previously published. We publish approx 200 throughout NFFD with spots for debut writers every half an hour. Open till 27 April at 23:59 GMT.
Everyone here at NFFD getting excited about FlashFlood subs opening on Sunday 21 April. We welcome flashes up to 300 words (including previously published). We also have spots for debut fiction (for previously unpublished flash writers). We'll be open for a week!
FlashFlood is now closed for this year! We still have a few stories to read, so if you've not heard yet don't panic. Look out for all the stories on NFFD (Saturday 6 June).
I love this banner with an extract of my story ‘Spinning’ selected for 2024
@bestmicrofic
. Published in July. Thanks very much to
#FlashFlood
for nominating and to all the editors of this wonderful anthology, which I am delighted to be part of
This year, everyone is entitled to one free submission to the
@nationalflashfd
anthology. The theme is FAMILY. We ask for donations for second and third submissions, but if this is a struggle financially, please send us up to three anyway. Up to 500 words.
Thank you so much for all the fabulous FlashFlood submissions. As well as the common themes of grief, cognitive decline and murder, we've received a lot of stories on the theme of fishing! We'd love to see more historical, science fiction and funny flashes.
FlashFlood is a joyous thing! On NFFD (Saturday 15 June), we will be posting a flash fiction every five or ten minutes for 24 hours! And every half past the hour we will have a flash from a debut flash writer! For more details, check out our roadmap:
We've collected all of the 2021 Write-In prompts together on one page for you. They're here:
Don't forget: you have until 23:59 BST tonight (27 July 2021) to submit your responses for possible publication at The Write-In.
Thanks to everyone who submitted to FlashFlood. The quality of submissions year was really high and we had to reject stories that we would have accepted in the past. We also received numerous subs on death & fading relationships which resulted in many good stories being rejected.
Submissions for the National Flash Fiction Day anthology and microfiction competition are now open! And despite our name, we welcome entries from anywhere in the world.
Do you have words to send us? We're waiting to read them!
Okay, here we go! Congratulations to our Micro Competition shortlisted authors and to our Anthology authors! Micro competition winners to be announced in a few days! Anthology to be published in June!
#NFFD2018
Wow, you guys! FlashFlood has received well over 1000 subs so far this year, and they're still pouring in...that's as much as we received last year in total, and nearly double what we received in 2018! We're going to have to add more slots this year....
On 15 June, we're bringing back "The Write-In" with an all new format: we'll publish one prompt per hour throughout National Flash Fiction Day from 00:01 to 23:59 BST. Come write with us, wherever you are!
Pleased to announce that National Flash Fiction Day next year will be Saturday 15 June. Watch this space for exciting news of what is happening on the day.
There are lots of exciting things happening on National Flash Fiction Day (and beyond), including FlashFlood, our anthology launch, workshops and the Write-In. AND IT'S ALL FREE!!!!! To find out more, click on the link below:
FlashFlood is open for submissions from Friday 3 May until Thursday 9 May. Five hundred words max. Stories will be posted on National Flash Fiction Day (15 June). More info soon ...
Entries to our micro competition (up to 100 words, no theme), are open until 15 Feb! First prize is £150, second £100 and third prize £50 plus 7 x £20 Highly Commended. More details here:
Announcing the winning and highly commended stories of this year's National Flash Fiction Day Micro Competition!
Congratulations to all of our winning and highly commended authors!
These stories are available to read on our website NOW!
Apologies for the delay in announcing the successful stories for this year's anthology. We are working hard and the results will be out as soon as possible.
The shortlist to our Micro Fiction Competition has now been announced. You can read the shortlisted titles in the link below. Thank you to everyone who entered!
Just one more weekend after to this to polish/write your submissions for this year's anthology on the theme of FREEDOM. One free story sub per person and then we ask for a small donation. Closes 15 Feb.