We're absolutely thrilled to be able to share the title of this year's National Flash Fiction Day anthology, along with our full line-up!
This year's title is borrowed from a stunning and moving flash fiction by Alicia Bakewell.
The cover will be revealed in the near future, and below you can read the full line-up of authors who'll feature in this year's anthology! We can't wait to share all of these stories with you!
Ripening: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2018
| Alison Powell | Have Your Cake |
| Joanna Campbell | Gingerbread |
| Abi Hynes | How to Eat a Grape |
| Helen Rye | Me ‘N’ Claudz Of A Friday Night Down The Chippy And The Oasis Bar |
| Kymm Coveny | Popcorn |
| Anna Rymer | Eight Weeks Old |
| Tim Stevenson | Not for the Body |
| Sharon Telfer | Caramel Baby |
| Damhnait Monaghan | Habits |
| Nan Wigington | Famous Last Meals |
| Leonora Desar | The Hot Fudge Lady |
| Deborah Meltvedt | Farmer's Market |
| Sara Chansarkar | Mango Pulp |
| E. P. Chiew | For the Love of a Bagel |
| Emily Devane | The Apple Seekers |
| Kevlin Henney | No Carbonara |
| Olga Wojtas | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art |
| Emma Harding | Say It with a Cake |
| Sarah Evans | The Word Eater |
| Sylvia Petter | Oysters |
| H Anthony Hildebrand | Ewei |
| Megan Giddings | Milk and Eggs |
| FJ Morris | The Root of It |
| A. E. Weisgerber | Knoxville |
| Sophie van Llewyn | Hi, Dad, How've You Been? |
| Philip Charter | The Change |
| Claire Polders | A Tasting of European Chefs |
| Jude Higgins | The Ways of the Flesh |
| Nancy Stohlman | The Pilgrimage |
| Christopher M Drew | A Turn of the Tide |
| Erica Plouffe Lazure | The Italic |
| Alicia Bakewell | Ripening |
| Judy Darley | Cornish Gold |
| Laura Pearson | Not Love, Not Carbohydrates |
| Gay Degani | Troy Mills |
| Calum Kerr | Cooking on Gas |
| Anne Summerfield | Only Now Can I Think of All The Things I Should Have Said |
| Sal Page | A Fifteen Stone Woman, with a Six Stone Daughter Who Will Not Eat, Writes Shopping Lists |
| Rachael Dunlop | Border Line |
| J. E. Kennedy | An Offering |
| Angela Readman | Attack of the Robot Grannies |
| TM Upchurch | Plum Skin |
| Nuala O'Connor | Sponge |
| Diane Simmons | A Picnic in the Park |
| Stephanie Hutton | Nourishment |
| Robert Scotellaro | The Polygamist's Three Wives |
| Ros Woolner | Make a Wish |
| Gemma Govier | Bass Drums and Trumpets for Tea |
| Ingrid Jendrzejewski | On the Wabash |
| Frankie McMillan | The Happy Eggs from Podomosky |
| Meg Pokrass | Culinary |
| Nadia Stone | Yaya's Pips |
| David Cook | The Shock Of The New Breakfasts |
| Jacqueline Saville | It's Not Her |
| Jan Kaneen | Sour |
| Santino Prinzi | Nonni |
| Charlotte Wührer | Shipwreck Feast |
| KM Elkes | Late Blackberries |
| Poppy O'Neill | The Creator is Disturbed at Her Vanity by the Cries of Mankind |
| Christopher Allen | Samuel is Mango |
| Ioanna Mavrou | Weekends in Waianae |
| Jennifer Harvey | Thirteen |
| Tara Laskowski | Goodnight Mush |
| Micro Competition Winners | |
| Fiona J. Mackintosh | The Birth of the Baptist |
| Charmaine Wilkerson | Pull |
| Rachael Dunlop | A Nice Bit of Linoleum |
| Lisa Ferranti | Fifth Grade |
| Amanda O'Callaghan | Death of a Friend |
| Catherine Edmunds | Forgetting, Remembering |
| Rebecca Field | Things I Never Saw Again After You Dumped Me By Text Message |
| Alan Beard | 1990 |
| Elaine Dillon | Louise |
| Anita Goveas | White Lies |