Save the Date: we're celebrating the next National Flash Fiction Day on 14 June 2025!
To celebrate National Flash Fiction Day 2025, we're hosting a live event in Bath on Saturday, 14 June 2024, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. BST.
Join us for two flash workshops, a panel presentation and the launch of the 2025 NFFD Anthology, complete with readings from some of this year's authors.
You can read more on our events page and you can book your ticket here (on EventBrite), but hurry — space is limited and we expect to sell out.
Tickets are free, but donations are very gratefully received.
And the results are in!
Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title):
The winning and highly commended stories can be read here and will appear in the 2025 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.
Thank you again to our four judges: Sudha Balagopal, Rebecca Field, James Montgomery and Sherry Morris.
Congratulations again to all our prize-winning and highly commended authors, and to all those who were shortlisted. And, a big thank you to everyone who entered this year’s competition and trusted us with their stories.
After reading scads of brilliant stories on the theme of SEASONS, editors Karen Jones and Cheryl Markosky have finalised their selections for the 2025 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the third annual Editors' Choice Awards.
Below is the list of the stories that will appear in this year's anthology, alongside the 2025 Microfiction Competition winners (yet to be announced). We will be contacting everyone on the list via email, so you should hear from us soon if you haven't already, but in the meantime, congratulations to all the authors listed below.
Special congratulations to our two Editors' Choice Award Winners:
Thank you so much to everybody who submitted their stories for consideration for this year's anthology. It was an honour to read each and every piece. Thank you for sharing your work with us! If you didn't make the anthology this time, don't forget that there are still opportunities to join us in celebrating National Flash Fiction Day, including FlashFlood and The Write-In.
We hope that you will all join us for the launch of the anthology on National Flash Fiction Day later this year!
2025 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Line Up
This year, we were thrilled to receive 551 entries to the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition.
Our judges, Sudha Balagopal, Rebecca Field, James Montogomery and Sherry Morris had the difficult job of whittling down the stories to a shortlist of 26. This was no easy task and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for their hard work and for the speed and conscientiousness with which they carried out the judging.
It isn’t easy to tell a story in a 100 words, yet we were blown away by the variety of themes, subjects and styles we saw in the submissions. Thank you to everyone who sent in their work; we appreciated the chance to read your flash.
If you see your flash below, feel free to tell everyone, but as judging is still in place please do not reveal your title.
Now, without further delay, our 26 shortlisted stories are: