We received nearly 450 entries for our competition this year, and the standard was amazingly high. Choosing just 10 winners was incredibly difficult, but the judges managed it in the end.
So, without any further fanfare, the winners - and their stories - are...
First Prize: 'A Handful' by Tim Stevenson
Second Prize: 'Spinning' by Oliver Barton
Third Prize: 'X' by Amy Mackelden
Highly Commended:
'Lost For Words' by Andrea Mullaney
'My Grandad was Roy Rogers' by Anouska Huggins
'Dot to Dot man' by Alison Wells
'Slather' by Clare Kirwan
'The Gradual Discovery of Loss' by Eva Holland
'All Light' by Alan Beard
'India' by Joanna Campbell
Congratulations to all of them!
Author: Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Funding Thanks!
Hello everyone,
Well, our crowd-sourced fundraising experiment ended yesterday and, while we didn't hit out target, we're still really pleased and grateful to everyone who helped out by either donating directly or simply spreading the word and helping others with spare cash to find us.
Our specific thanks need to go to our sponsors who were, in no particular order:
Micro-Fiction Competition 2013 – The Longlist
Hello all,
Pleased to announce that we now have our longlist for the Micro-Fiction competition. The judges are whittling it down to the winners and so I don't want to reveal who wrote which story, but here is a list of the authors who made it to the top. Congratulations to them all!
Oliver Barton
Alan Beard
Joanna Campbell
Stephen Carragher
Donald Chegwin
Amber Dodd
Lindsay Fisher
Glenys Grey
Kit Haggard
Eva Holland
Susan Howe
Anouska Huggins
Clare Kirwan
Debbie Kinsey
Chelsea Covington Maass
Amy Mackelden
Pauline Masurel
Andrea Mullaney
Jo Norris
Tim Stevenson,
Pete Walsh
Barbara Weeks
Alison Wells
Selina Siak Chin Yoke
NFFD2013 Bulletin 12/03/13
Bulletin – 6th February 2013
Dear All,
Bulletin – 3rd October 2012
Well, hello there, and how are you?
- There's a flash-slam in Warwick tomorrow (4th October) so do go along if you can: http://warwickwords.co.
uk/index.php/whats-on/events/ 444-flash-slam
- A display of flash-fiction books is working its way around South Glos libraries as part of the Discover festival: www.southglos.gov.
uk/discover.
- Spry is a new journal in the USA with a flash-fiction only section is looking for your stories: http://sprylit.
submittable.com/submit
- The successors to my flash365 project, Mrs Flash365 (Kath Kerr) and Son of Flash365 (Chris Bissette) are over the 150-story mark and will hit the halfway point at the end of the month. Please have a read, leave some comments, follow, share, like the Facebook page or follow them on Twitter. Your support is what keeps them going.
- The NFFD anthologies, Jawbreakers and Kissing Frankenstein are still available, and if you haven't got them already, why not? They're great!
- NFFD projects 1000 words and Flashpoints are still up and running, and looking for your work.
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Bulletin – 22/08/2012
Dear All,
- The people at CAKE are holding a write-in today and there's still time to join in. Details over at http://cakeshortandsweet.
wordpress.com/2012/08/22/ wednesday-write-in-1/. - The 2012 NFFD anthology, Jawbreakers, is still available in print from http://www.
nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/ anthology.html or in Kindle format from your local Amazon. - Jawbreakers co-editor, Valerie O'Riordan's collection, Enough, released to coincide with NFFD is also still available at http://gumbopress.co.uk/
books.html or, again, on Kindle from Amazon. - Flashpoints, the site specific writing project created for NFFD is still up, running, and looking for your photos and stories. Check it out and submit at http://nffdflashpoints.
blogspot.co.uk/. - The multi-user, Twitter-driven graphic novel 3 Hundred and 65 is still going, and well worth a daily look at http://www.3hundredand65.
co.uk/. - Brighton's upcoming Digital Festival have loads of great events, including a Flash Slam on the 16th Sept (including yours truly and Manchester-based flasher Sarah Clare-Conlon) http://2012.
brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/ event/flash-lit-fiction/ and also an evening of flash from the Quick Fictions people on the 24th (http://2012. brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/ event/quick-fictions/). - And finally, in a blowing-your-own-trumpet kind of way, I will shortly be running some online courses, including one in flash-fiction (short stories, life writing and editing being the others). If you're interested (or just kind enough to encourage others who might be) the details are at http://www.calumkerr.co.uk/
pp006.shtml.
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NFFD NZ and Write-In 2
Hello everyone,
NFFD Report
I just had to write a roundup of the day for the Arts Council. I was amazed to re-explore all that went on, and thought you might like a read. So here it is!
NFFD New Zealand
Did you know that 22nd June (next Friday for those not paying attention) is National Flash-Fiction Day in New Zealand? We thought it was far too good an opportunity to pass up, so we're going to hold an online writing event to celebrate.
At midnight on the 22nd, NZ time (1pm on the 21st here in the UK), we shall release a prompt to inspire you to write a flash-fiction. You will then have 35 hours, (until the end of 22nd here in the UK) to write something and submit it for us to publish on a special blog.
And, we hope, this global write-in will be just the first of many as we start to look forward to next year's INTERnational Flash-Fiction Day!!
(PS. If anyone wants to help out with administering this, please drop me a line through the usual ways... Thank you!)