Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Update -- National Flash Fiction Day - 22 June 2012

This year marks the inaugural celebration of National Flash Fiction Day in New Zealand.

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.



National Flash Fiction Day 2012.
Because life is short. And so is some of the best fiction.

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