Save the Date: we're celebrating the next National Flash Fiction Day on 14 June 2025!
Introducing...
This year we're bringing spellbinding tales on the theme of 'magic' by authors from all over the world! From fortune tellers to ghosts, performance shenanigans to the magic of science, there's something for everyone in this year's anthology!
Available for pre-order very soon!
Artwork by our artist-in-residence Jeanette Sheppard.
After reading so many stunning stories on the theme of MAGIC, Nod Ghosh and I have finalised our selections!
Congratulations to all the authors listed below!
We would like to thank everybody who submitted their stories for consideration for this year's anthology. Times continue to be very challenging for us all, and I personally found it an absolute joy to be able to immerse myself in the wonderful stories and worlds you all created. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
To celebrate our tenth National Flash Fiction Day we will also be featuring stories from past anthology editors. These stories will either be on the theme of magic, or throwbacks to stories from past anthologies, or, as luck may have it, a combination of both!
We'll also be including the winning stories from this year's micro fiction competition, and judging is well under way!
We hope that you will all join us for the launch of the anthology on National Flash Fiction Day later this year!
| Janine Kovac | A Night at the Nutcracker |
| Marie Gethins | All That is Earthly |
| Claire Carroll | Deference Ritual |
| Jolene McIlwain | Few Things are More [Stressful] Magical Than Building a House |
| Sarah Salway | Knitting |
| Jennifer Brutschy | Life After the Sun Doesn't Blind Us |
| Chris Barkley | Lumbar-sick |
| Linda McMullen | Magic Act |
| Gaynor Jones | Me and Joe and the Rainbow |
| Epiphany Ferrell | Renaissance |
| Jacqueline Doyle | Spelling Lachlan |
| Sam Payne | The Acrobats are Talking About Love |
| Rebecca Field | The White Rabbit |
| Garry Cox | Tinder |
| Faye Brinsmead | What She's Trying to Tell Me |
| Edward Barnfield | Magic Box |
| Audrey Niven | Jesus of Barnet |
| Farhana Khalique | Everybody |
| Chrissy Sturt | Womb Tombs |
| Karen Jones | Teeth and Claws |
| Keely O’Shaughnessy | What If We Breathed Through Our Skin? |
| A.B. Kyazze | Edmundo's Predicament |
| Nan Wigington | Beneath Smoke, Mirrors |
| Iona Rule | Bad Blood |
| Catherine Ogston | An Orkney Wise Woman Tells It As It Is |
| Lisa Ferranti | Disappearing Act |
| Cheryl Markosky | Everyday Magic |
| Morgan Quinn | Not Every Missing Thing is Lost |
| Rachael Dunlop | The Poet |
| Stephanie Carty | The Science of Self |
| Emily Devane | This is How They Meet |
| Natalie Reilly-Johnson | Turning to Glass |
| Valerie Griffin | Whispers to the Moon |
| Debra A. Daniel | Ann tells Me to Burn Sage in the House Where I Live With My Fiance |
| Katie Piper | Bath Man |
| Michael Loveday | Be More Cup |
| Claire Polders | If You Think Stars Can't Clap You're Not Listening |
| Susie Morgan | Your own kind of magic |
| Laurie Babcock | al fresco |
| Dawn Siofra North | Frozen Child |
| Martha Lane | Mammy's theme tune is played by violins |
| Morgan Quinn | String Theory |
| Jo Ward | The Change |
| Caroline Gonda | The End of Magic |
| Robert Carroll | The Getaway Car |
| E. E. Rhodes | The Magic Circles |
| Mark Stewart | Tunnel of Love |
| Sherri Turner | Wallface |
| Kinneson Lalor | Winter |
| Charlie Swailes | Without and Within |
| Claire Carroll | To be cut cleanly in half like a geode |
| Jenny Woodhouse | To see the world in a Chelsea Bun |
| Diane Simmons | Support |
| Jeanette Sheppard | Searching for Sky Lights |