National Flash Fiction Day is volunteer-run. A huge number of people are involved every year in making NFFD what it is; here are just a few of them.
Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Co-Director.
Ingrid received a BFA in Creative Writing and BA in English Literature at the University of Evansville before going on to earn a BA and MSci in Natural Sciences (Physics) at the University of Cambridge. At the University of Evansville, she served as non-fiction editor, then editor-in-chief of the Evansville Review. Since graduating, she has worked as everything from researcher, copy-editor, arts administrator, producer, researcher and game content developer for a popular mmorpg, where millions of players interacted with the content she wrote and coded.
Ingrid has published over 100 shortform pieces and has won multiple flash fiction competitions, including the Bath Flash Fiction Award and the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize for Flash Fiction. Her short collection Things I Dream About When I'm Not Sleeping was a runner up for BFFA’s first Novella-in-Flash competition. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Vestal Review’s VERA Award, and multiple times for Best Small Fictions.
Diane Simmons, Co-Director.
Diane has been widely published in magazines such as New Flash Fiction Review, Mslexia, Splonk and FlashBack Fiction and placed in numerous writing competitions. She is the author of four published novellas-in-flash: Finding a Way (Ad Hoc Fiction), An Inheritance (V.Press), A Tricky Dance (Alien Buddha 
Press) and William Prichard & Co (Arroyo Seco Press). Both Finding a Way and An Inheritance were shortlisted in the UK Saboteur Awards. She has been a co-director of National Flash Fiction Day since 2018 and is a former director of Flash Fiction Festivals (UK) and reader for the international Bath Short Story Award. An editor for FlashFlood, Diane has judged flash fiction contests such as Micro Madness NZ, Flash 500, NFFD Micro Competition and the online Flash Fiction Festival, and has co-edited all seven Flash Fiction Festival anthologies. You can read more about Diane on her website: www.dianesimmons.co.uk and connect with her on X @scooterwriter and Bluesky @scooterwriter.bsky.social
Copies of Diane’s novellas-in-flash are available to buy from her website and can also be ordered from Amazon.
Karen Jones, Anthology Editor
Karen Jones is a flash and short fiction writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and her story Small Mercies was included in Best Small Fictions 2019. She has won first prize in the Cambridge Flash Prize, Flash 500 and Reflex Fiction and second prize in Fractured Lit’s Micro Fiction Competition. Her work has been Highly Commended/shortlisted for To Hull and Back, Bath Flash Fiction, Bath Short Story Award and many others. Her first novella-in-flash When It’s Not Called Making Love is published by Ad Hoc Fiction, and her second, Burn It All Down, is published by Arroyo Seco Press. She is an editor for National Flash Fiction Day anthology.
Jeanette Sheppard, Artist-in-Residence
Jeanette Sheppard is an artist and writer of flash fiction. Her collection Seventy Percent Water won the 2020 Ellipsis Zine Flash Collection Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Saboteur Awards. In her role as artist-in-residence at National Flash Fiction Day she’s created the annual anthology cover for the last six years.
Jeanette also creates cover images for individual writers. You’ll find her most recent work on Jude Higgins’s collection, Clearly Defined Clouds and Jan Kaneen’s, A Learning Curve. In 2021 she was one of fifty wild cards in an episode of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.
NFFD art prints are now available to buy on Jeanette’s website, along with greeting cards and giclée prints from her personal art. You can also find out about commissioning a book cover image jeanettesheppard.com
Connect with Jeanette on Instagram as she works towards creating a collection of original art @sheppardjeanette and on Bluesky @jeanettesheppard.bsky.social, where she posts about writing, art and learning how to throw pots.
Previous Directors
Calum Kerr founded National Flash Fiction day in 2012 and served as Director until 2018 when he passed the baton on to Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Santino Prinzi, and Diane Simmons. Calum is a writer, lecturer, editor, typesetter, book designer, and generally someone who spends a lot of time with words. He has written over a thousand flash fiction and lives in Southampton with his wife, stepson, and two cats.
Santino Prinzi served as a Co-Director of National Flash Fiction Day in the UK and one of the founding organisers of the annual Flash Fiction Festival. His debut, full-length flash fiction collection, This Alone Could Save Us (2020), is available from Ad Hoc Fiction. His flash fiction pamphlet, There’s Something Macrocosmic About All of This (2018), is available from V. Press. His writing has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Best Small Fictions 2019, Best Microfiction 2020, SmokeLong Quarterly, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Jellyfish Review, and many more. To find out more follow him on Twitter (@tinoprinzi) or visit his website: santinoprinzi.com