Tuesday, April 08, 2014

The 2014 National Flash Fiction Day competition is now open for submissions!

Back for its third year, New Zealand’s national competition for flash is looking for the best 300-word stories in Aotearoa. Submissions are open April 7 – May 23. This year’s judges are Frankie McMillan and Mary McCallum, both experienced poets and flash fiction writers and wonderful supporters of such literary events.
“One of the great things about flash fiction,” Frankie McMillan tells us, “is that it takes only a moment to read and savour the work. Because of word economy needed in the form, association, imagery and symbolism are often used to suggest rather than describe. Language is really put under pressure the same way as in poetry.”
Mary McCallum echoes McMillan’s views. “Flash fiction is a wonderful amalgam of poetry (every word matters) and fiction (plot/character), and therefore a great test of a writer's skills. It is both fun and addictive, and becomes especially so when there's a competition in the offing.” 
Winning stories from this year’s competition will be published in Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction, and $300 prize will be awarded the winner plus cash and book vouchers will go to the other top entrants.
This year for the first time NFFD will charge a fee for story submissions. The NFFD competition ran in 2012 and 2013 as a free event, but in 2014 your small entry fee will help sustain the high quality we've come to expect. Specifically, the entry fees will help support payment for our esteemed judges and the prizes that will go to the top winners.  
All administrative tasks in association with NFFD are accomplished by the devoted Committee members who dedicate time and effort freely to the cause. It’s with heartfelt thanks that NFFD acknowledges members of the NFFD Committee: Katherine Honeyman (Auckland), Margaret Cahill (Kerikeri), Rebecca Styles (Wellington) and James Norcliffe (Christchurch). More here.
To enter the 2014 National Flash Fiction Day competition, please go to the National Flash Fiction Day website for details and submission guidelines.


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