Save the Date: we're celebrating the next National Flash Fiction Day on 14 June 2025!
Thank you to everyone involved in the Scratching the Sands: 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology launch. If you weren't able to make it, or if you'd like to revisit the fantastic readers from some of the authors appearing in the anthology, hop on over to YouTube where you can watch a recording. Here's the link:
And, of course, if you'd like to see these beautiful words in print, you can purchase a copy at the NFFD Bookshop.
Happy listening!
Huge thanks to Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique for their fantastic workshop yesterday. If you missed out, then you're in luck:
Click here for a recording of today's session.
You'll need to enter the password 4jHM&2rN to access the workshop.
We are truly grateful to Anita and Farhana for offering their annual National Flash Fiction Day workshop free of charge for several years running. All NFFD projects are volunteer run, this included. If you enjoy these free workshops, do follow Anita and Farhana to keep up with the workshops they run throughout the year. A little bird tells me they have an exciting one planned for October, though details haven't yet been announced.
You can follow Anita and Farhana on Twitter at @coffeeandpaneer & @HanaKhalique.
Thank you again to Anita and Farhana for volunteering their time and expertise to the flash community this weekend!
This year, The Write-In is adding in a little spice to its prompt writing challenge. Over the course of National Flash Fiction Day, we're publishing one prompt per hour for a total of 25 prompts.
You have until Sunday 25 June at 23:59 BST to submit them for possible publication at The Write-In, and for the first time this year you can also claim a virtual badge for each prompt you finish, as well as for a few other tasks. You have a week to do so, until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 2 July. You can see the full list of badges here and claim you prompt badges using our badgifier. It's all on the honour-system, but bad publication will most certainly befall anyone who tries to fool our badgifier....
Finally, if you are here looking for the special National Flash Fiction Day 2023 badge from this website, you can find it by clicking here.... Congratulations -- you're one step closer to being able to legitimately claim the Complete Set badge of 2023!
For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 24 June, FlashFlood, NFFD's curated online journal, will be publishing one flash every 5 to 10 minutes over at NFFD. Check in at half past the hour every hour from start to finish for our Debut Flash Series — new stories written by previously unpublished flash writers.
Then, on Sunday, we'll post the latest in our Community Flash Series. This year, we catch up with the Writers Group from Wandsworth Carers Centre, a charity that provides support to unpaid carers.
Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique are returning this year with a free, online workshop where they'll be offering even more flash fiction inspiration. This event is free but spaces are limited and you must register in advance here to get the link. For those who can't make it, we plan to publish a video of the workshop after the event.
Over at NFFD’s The Write-In, we’ll be posting a flash prompt every hour on the hour from 00:00 – 24:00 BST on National Flash Fiction Day. You'll then have 24 hours to submit your responses for a chance of publication. Publication of responses begins on 25 June 2023 and doesn't finish until the team is done reading through all the wondrous things you send us!
If you'd like to write with others, the folks at Propelling Pencil are independently running a free one-hour workshop based around the prompts at The Write-In. It's free, but you'll need to sign up with them here.
Join us from 7pm BST on Zoom for the virtual launch of Scratching the Sands, the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. We'll celebrate with live readings from many of this year's authors, hosted by National Flash Fiction Day's own Diane Simmons with help from anthology editor Karen Jones. The event is free to attend, but you'll need to book in advance here. For those who can't make it, we'll post the event on our YouTube channel in due course.
As usual, we'll be posting all our prompts and FlashFlood stories on Twitter @nationalflashfd and will be around on Facebook at facebook.com/nationalflashfictionday
Happy writing!
For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST on Saturday, 24 June, FlashFlood, NFFD's curated online journal, will be publishing one flash every 5 to 10 minutes over at NFFD. Check in at half past the hour every hour from start to finish for our Debut Flash Series — new stories written by previously unpublished flash writers.
Then, on Sunday, we'll post the latest in our Community Flash Series. This year, we catch up with the Writers Group from Wandsworth Carers Centre, a charity that provides support to unpaid carers.
Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique are returning this year with a free, online workshop where they'll be offering even more flash fiction inspiration. This event is free but spaces are limited and you must register in advance here to get the link. For those who can't make it, we plan to publish a video of the workshop after the event.
Over at NFFD’s The Write-In, we’ll be posting a flash prompt every hour on the hour from 00:00 – 24:00 BST on National Flash Fiction Day. You'll then have 24 hours to submit your responses for a chance of publication. Publication of responses begins on 25 June 2023 and doesn't finish until the team is done reading through all the wondrous things you send us!
If you'd like to write with others, the folks at Propelling Pencil are independently running a free one-hour workshop based around the prompts at The Write-In. It's free, but you'll need to sign up with them here.
Join us from 7pm BST on Zoom for the virtual launch of Scratching the Sands, the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. We'll celebrate with live readings from many of this year's authors, hosted by National Flash Fiction Day's own Diane Simmons with help from anthology editor Karen Jones. The event is free to attend, but you'll need to book in advance here. For those who can't make it, we'll post the event on our YouTube channel in due course.
As usual, we'll be posting all our prompts and FlashFlood stories on Twitter @nationalflashfd and will be around on Facebook at facebook.com/nationalflashfictionday
We're delighted to introduce the title and cover of our newest anthology, Scratching the Sands: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023. It will launch on 24 June 2023, but you can pre-order here.
Thanks to Christine Collinson, author of the eponymous story and to our artist-in-residence Jeanette Sheppard who provided the cover image.
We're excited to share the anthology itself with you later this month....
To celebrate National Flash Fiction Day 2023, the brilliant Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique are offering a FREE flash prompt workshop on Saturday, 24 June 2023 from 09:30 - 10:30 BST. The workshop is free, but you'll need to sign up in advance as places are limited. Details and the sign-up form can be found here:
If you miss it or can't make the time, we'll post a link to the session on our website so you can enjoy in your own time.
You can follow Anita and Farhana on Twitter at @coffeeandpaneer & @HanaKhalique. HUGE thanks to both for their generosity and expertise!
