Competition
Submissions are rolling in for the national competition – please note
the deadline is 1 June 2012. Send in your stories, up to 3 per writer, 300
words excluding title. The competition will be judged anonymously by Graeme
Lay, Tina Shaw and Stephen Stratford.
National Flash Fiction Day hopes to recognise both established authors
as well as newcomers to the genre. We welcome all submissions to the inaugural
competition.
Details about the competition can be found on the NFFD website.
Flash in NZ
New Zealand writers have an excellent record in the genre of short short
fiction. It’s a challenge and a pleasure in the most immediate sense, as Graeme
Lay points out in the introduction to The
Third Century: "Short short story
writing is the literary equivalent of one-day cricket or sevens rugby -- though
the skills are the same as for the longer game, in the shortened form the
action is immediate, the pace fast and a resolution always in
sight."
For more about flash fiction in general, and the genesis of National
Flash Fiction Day in New Zealand, listen to the interview with the NFFD
organisers on Radio New Zealand’s
Arts on Sunday programme – aired Sunday, 6 May 2012.
June 22 Event
Winners of the competition will be notified in early June, and on
National Flash Fiction Day -- June 22 – prizes will be awarded at an event
taking place in the Whare Wānanga, Level 2, Auckland Central City
Library,
44-46 Lorne Street. This will be an evening for writers and readers alike. All
are welcome.
Special thanks to the Auckland Central City Library and New Zealand Society of Authors for their generous
support. In addition to the national prizes,
there will be regional awards offered by NZSA branches.
If your group would like to host a local activity in
honour of National Flash Fiction Day, please let us know and we’ll be glad to
publicise your event on our website and elsewhere.
Email: nationalflash@gmail.com
NFFD website: http://nationalflash.wordpress.com
National Flash Fiction Day 2012.
Because life is short. And so is some
of the best fiction.
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