Well, that about wraps it up for this, the first ever National Flash-Fiction Day. I'm back from a wonderful launch at the Southampton Central Library where we had brilliant readings from Vanessa Gebbie, Sara Crowley, Tim Stevenson, Natalie Bowers, Gail Aldwin, Holly Howitt and, at the last minute, Bob Jacobs and Brendan Way. Massive thanks to them and everyone who helped out and who turned up!
I've seen on Facebook and Twitter that you have all been having great flash-fun today at various events up and down the country (and around the world!) and I look forward to catching up with them over the next few days. If you ran an event and would like to send us a blog post about it, maybe with piccies, we'd love to run it!
Thank you to everyone who has done anything for National Flash-Fiction Day. It has been truly amazing and you are all, individually and collectively, wonderful people.And thank you to the Arts Council who allowed us to do Jawbreakers and those wonderful cards and posters.
And a personal thank you to my fiancée Kath, for all her help and support. It wouldn't have been possible without her.
I will be adding new content to the site in coming days and weeks, updating blogs and generally catching up on the things that have gone by the by in recent days. Oh, and shipping out copies of Jawbreakers (still available to buy!) And we will be back with competitions, events and all kinds of flash-goodies throughout the year. Because, of course, we're building towards NFFD 2013 now!!
So, well done everyone, thank you again for all you have done. I'm off to sleep for a week now, but I'll see you soon.
All the very best
Calum Kerr
Director, National Flash-Fiction Day 2012.
And thank you to you, Calum, for making this amazing thing happen. I hope you have a well-earned rest scheduled now...
Well done Calum, an inspired idea, incredibly well executed
Thank you so much for arranging all of this, Calum. Yesterday was a lot of fun and the Oxford event was superb.
I hope you get a nice break now.
You guys deserve a margarita and a 10 day nap! Thanks for working so hard. I loved reading so many great stories in one day.
It went amazingly - don't ya think?! *pats back*