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The Shapes in the Yarrow – Tim Stevenson
The Countdown has Begun…
We now have only just over a week to go until this year's National Flash-Fiction Day. Can you feel the excitement in the air? We can almost taste it...
Once more, we are running the FlashFlood journal and submissions are now open over at http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.co.uk/.
We also have events listed on our website that you can get involved with: http://host2021.temp.domains/~nationo0/events.html.
To whet your appetite for the day, (and, frankly, to ramp up the tension), over the next week we're going to be posting a series of articles about flash-fiction from a variety of different writers. We'll also feature one of their stories, just to give you some relief from that horrible non-fictiony stuff.
If you would like to contribute an article and story, please get in touch at nationalflashfictionday@gmail.com.
But, with no further ado, let's on with the first one, from this year's Micro-Fiction competition winner, Tim Stevenson.
NFFD – Edinburgh Event announced, submissions open
Micro-Fiction Competition 2013 – Results Announcement
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!
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
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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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!