The 2023 National Flash Fiction Day anthology will be edited by NFFD's Karen Jones and Guest Editor Damhnait Monaghan.
The 2023 theme is TIME.
Submissions are open from 1 December 2022 to 15 February 2023.
We are delighted to welcome Damhnait Monaghan to the National Flash Fiction Day team as this year's guest editor for the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day anthology.
She'll be joining NFFD's Anthology Editor Karen Jones in putting together this year's anthology of flash fiction from around the world.
Karen Jones is a flash and short story writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Micro Fiction and The Pushcart Prize, and her story Small Mercies was included in Best Small Fictions 2019 and BIFFY50 2019. In 2021 she won first prize in the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize, Flash 500, Reflex Fiction and Retreat West Monthly Micro and was shortlisted for To Hull and Back, Bath Flash Fiction, Bath Short Story Award and longlisted for Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. Her novella-in-flash, When It’s Not Called Making Love is published by Ad Hoc Fiction. She is Special Features Editor at New Flash Fiction Review.
Damhnait Monaghan's flash fiction is widely published and has won or placed in various competitions. Her novella in flash The Neverlands (V Press) won best novella in the 2020 Saboteur Awards. Her debut novel New Girl in Little Cove (Harper Collins) won the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the Romance category. A former editor and founding member of FlashBack Fiction, Damhnait has previously been a judge for the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology micro competition, the inaugural Retreat West novelette in flash competition and F(r)iction’s flash fiction competition.