National Flash Fiction day is here!

Details of events and links to "pouring stories" can be found on the National Flash Fiction Day blog, and here are a few selected flashes in celebration at The Guardian.

David Gaffney on Flash Fiction

David Gaffney has a splendid piece in The Guardian on how he got into writing flash fiction, concluding with six pointers for writing your own.

Wigleaf's 50 Top Flash Fictions of 2012

make for splendid reading, with work from Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Stuart Dybek, Kristine Ong Muslim, and another writer with the surname Etter!

Thanks to Andrew Bailey for directing me to the treasure!

Twisted flash fiction, anyone?

Raging Aardvark Publications seeks twisted flash fictions of 350-600 words by 10 May. For further details, see this page.

The National Flash Fiction Day anthology, Jawbreakers,

will include my own short-short story, "Mauve." I'm delighted, in part because of the great company--it will included commissioned stories by Ian Rankin and Ali Smith, as well as Bath Spa alum Tania Hershman and NFFD director Calum Kerr. Full details are on the National Flash Fiction Day site here.

Congrats to Sudden Prose student Natalia Spencer

Hurrah for second-year Sudden Prose student Natalia Spencer, whose flash fiction, "Arrivals and Departures," has made the longlist for the Flash Fiction South West Prize! Good luck to her for the final round!

Super power flash fiction!

This blog, SuperPowered Flash, publishes flash fictions up to 500 words where the protagonist has the super power of her choice. What will yours be?