National Flash Fiction Day 2021: Here We Come!

Happy New Year from all of us at National Flash Fiction Day!

This year's National Flash Fiction Day will be celebrated on Saturday, 26 June 2021 when we'll be marking our tenth anniversary with an online celebration of all things flash.  We hope you'll join us then, but to start the year off right, we've got some exciting things to share with you....

1.  Today we're launching our new banner for 2021, featuring artwork created by National Flash Fiction Day's talented Artist-in-Residence, Jeanette Sheppard.  She says, "I wanted the banner to look like a virtual outdoor party, an invitation for you to join in the celebrations, to read some flash, or to write some flash, or hopefully do both of those things." You can read more about Jeanette's artistic process and the inspiration behind the new image in her most recent NFFD artistic statement.
2. Today also marks the launch of our interview series with our 2021 NFFD Anthology editors and Microfiction Competition judges.  The first is an interview with National Flash Fiction Day's own Santino Prinzi in which he discusses his new collection, his history with National Flash Fiction Day, and what he's looking for in the anthology submission queue.  We are currently open for our submissions and will be posting one interview every Monday until submissions close on 15 February 2021.  Check out our Anthology Guidelines and Microfiction Guidelines and then send these wonderful people something to read...they can't wait to read your work!
3. Last but certainly not least, here's a little advanced notice that we've got something special up our sleeves for later this year.  National Flash Fiction Day is excited to announce that we will be opening our doors from 1 February to 31 October 2021 for novella-in-flash manuscripts between 6,000 and 12,000 words, with a maximum 1,000 word limit per flash. The judge is Sophie van Llewyn and yes, there will be prizes. We'll post full details on the 1st of February, but we thought we'd let you know early so you can start the new year with a great excuse to write and edit.

Again, Happy New Year from all of us at National Flash Fiction Day.  We wish you a creative and productive year of writing and reading, and hope you'll join us for all the fun on and around our tenth anniversary, National Flash Fiction Day 2021 on 26 June 2021.