Assembly of the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day anthology is well underway. The theme for this year's anthology is Life As You Know It.
We're thrilled to announce that this year's anthology will be called Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour, taken from a brilliant and funny story by Helen Rye.
We've also managed to include a series of commissioned stories from a range of wonderful writers. We're sure you'll recognise some of these writers, and that you'll be as excited as we are about their appearance in this year's anthology! The full 'line-up' is below, with all the incredible stories you'll be able to read.
We will be launching Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour on National Flash Fiction Day (June 24th) at the UK's first Flash Fiction Festival taking place in Bath. If you are organising a flash fiction event for National Flash Fiction Day, please get in contact with us so we can promote your event!
Without further ado, welcome to life as we know it...
Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour
| Robert Scotellaro | A Sky Full of Ghosts |
| Catherine Edmunds | Molly and the Toe-rag |
| Simon Sylvester | Soup Stone |
| Sandra Arnold | The Quick and the Dead |
| Heather McQuillan | Iridescence |
| James Coffey | Close Encounters |
| Victoria Richards | Aino Yehudi |
| Kevlin Henney | DIY |
| Sophia Holme | Rehabilitation |
| Joy Manné | Stabbed |
| Robert Lopez | Into My Own Parade |
| Mary Lynn Reed | The Thieves Are Coming. They Are Taking It All |
| Jonathan Taylor | Not a Horror Story |
| Jenny Woodhouse | Stepping Out |
| Steven Moss | Gabriel |
| Peter Wortsman | Bliss Street |
| Sharon Telfer | Never Going to Fall for Modern Love |
| Marie Gethins | Unseen |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | The Girl in Purple |
| Conor Houghton | The Great Forgotten Language |
| Rupert Dastur | It All Ends |
| Tim Stevenson | A Thousand Years |
| Miranda Kate | Friends |
| Nuala Ní Chonchúir | Bunnahabhain |
| Michael Loveday | Let Them Know Me By My Teeth |
| Lex Williford | Horsewhip |
| Sophie Rosenblum | A Terrier’s Limits |
| Mark Connors Gary Duncan |
Communication Free Hugs |
| Steve Tuffin | The Sun on the Dash |
| Diane Simmons | Dancing Partners |
| Gary Powell | Missing |
| Rachael Dunlop | Teeter, Totter, Tattle-Tale |
| Gay Degani | Anamnesis |
| Helen Rye | Sleep Is A Beautiful Colour |
| Christopher M Drew | The Fisher King |
| David O’Neill | Tin Can Phones |
| Stuart Dybek | Fog |
| David Steward | Twenty-Five Seconds |
| Nod Ghosh | Exactly the Way You Are |
| Matthew Thorpe-Coles | It’s M.E., Not You |
| Megan Crosbie | Big Responsibilities |
| Joanna Campbell | Breathing |
| Danielle McLaughlin | Let Robot Lawnmower Work. Enjoy Your Life! |
| Sophie van Llewyn | The Skirt |
| Erica Plouffe Lazure | On The Way Out |
| Pamela Painter | Vacation Dog |
| Clare Polders | Swing State |
| Paul Currion | Happiness |
| Calum Kerr | Who Came? |
| Zoe Murdock | Living Alone with Derrida |
| Meg Pokrass | Tenders |
| Anne Summerfield | On the Track You Tasted Blue |
| Etgar Keret | The Most |
| Judy Darley | Fascinate |
| Angela Readman | Legs in the Air, We Think about Spring |
| Anna Nazarova-Evans | The Boy at a London Bus Stop Who Took |
| My Photograph in the Summer of 1999 | |
| Santino Prinzi | They Keep Calling My Ex-Husband Brave |
| Judi Walsh | Carousel |
| Lindsay Fisher | How Traveller Boys Love |
| Ingrid Jendrzejewski | The Complete and Incomplete Works of Lydia Davis |
| Jason Jackson | Ana and Jose-Ramon |
| Robert Shapard | Weather Girl |
| KM Elkes | The Way We Lie |
| Jane Dugdale | Milk and Money |
| Claudia Smith | Startled |
| Kirsty Cowan | Mrs Livingstone’s Artist |
| Adam Trodd | I Am My Own David Attenborough |
| Jude Higgins | There’s No Such Thing as a Fish |
| 2017 National Flash-Fiction Day Micro Competion Winners | |
| Brianna Snow | Fifth Grade |
| Stephanie Hutton | Geology of a Girl |
| Sherry Morris | As Liquid is Poured |
| Catherine Edmunds | Brave |
| Sally Syson | Mermaids |
| Kayla Pongrac | Fireflies in the Backyard |
| Sacha Waldron | Fawn |
| Jennifer Harvey | Mango |
| Christina Taylor | The In-Between Hour |
| Alison Wassell | The Smoking Circle |
Looks like a great line-up! I notice several names of former contributors to Cafe Aphra, the blog I am curating at the moment... very nice to see. Well done everybody. 🙂