National Flash Fiction Day

2018 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges: Tracey Slaughter, Sue Wootton

 

FIRST

He She It They

Anita Arlov, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

 

SECOND

The Lanterns

Anna Granger, Whanganui, Central Districts

 

THIRD

Thud-Thud-Thud

Semira Davis, Porirua, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

 


 

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Flight

Catherine Trundle, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

The Chef

Jill Varani, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

You Too

Catherine Trundle, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

 


 

SHORT LIST

Bivouac – Andrea Ewing, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Ming the Other – Anita Arlov, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Never Taken Photograph – Semira Davis, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Pufferfish – Sue Kingham, Ōtautahi Christchurch

The Hollow – Anna Granger, Whanganui, Central Districts

White Lies – Vivian Thonger, Kerikeri

 


 

REGIONAL AWARDS

Sponsored by New Zealand Society of Authors regional branches

 

TĀMAKI MAKAURAU AUCKLAND

Anita Arlov

WAITAHA CANTERBURY

Sue Kingham

ŌTĀKOU OTAGO

Robyn Pickens

TE WHANGANUI A TARA WELLINGTON

 Semira Davis

CENTRAL DISTRICTS

Anna Granger

TE TAI TOKERAU NORTHLAND

Vivian Thonger

 


 

LONG LIST

After You Had Gone – Rose Collins, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Bivouac – Andrea Ewing, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Black Cat – Patricia Hanifin, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Boxing the Fox – Kate Mahony, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Can I See? – Bethany Rogers, Queenstown

Country Living – Sarndra Smith, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Driving to Pakistan – Maggie Rainey-Smith, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Farm Holiday – Gay Buckingham, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Flight – Catherine Trundle, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

From His Eyes – Dana Christiansen, Lawrence

Going Going Gone – Anna Mackenzie, Hastings, Hawkes Bay

Gulls – Isabelle McNeur, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

He She It They – Anita Arlov, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

He’ll Be One of the Ones That Make It Home – Liz Breslin, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Hooks and Sinkers – Becky Manawatu, Waimangaroa, Buller

In the Field – Linda Collins, Kakanui

Karajan – Robyn Pickens, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Lawrie Shrapnel – Jan FitzGerald, Napier, Hawkes Bay

Layers of Dust – Gretchen Carroll, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Lovely Clear Line – Michael Botur, Whangārei

Magpie – Kim Beatrice, Pahiatua, Central Districts

Mine – Anne Hollier Ruddy, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Ming the Other – Anita Arlov, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Mothers of Miners – Heather McQuillan, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Never Taken Photograph – Semira Davis, Porirua, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Old Friends – Himali McInnes, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Pufferfish – Sue Kingham, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Short Talk on Cezanne, Switzerland and Lemonade – Michael Harlow, Alexandra

Stepdad Stan – Michael Botur, Whangārei

Storm – Jan FitzGerald, Napier, Hawkes Bay

Tea, Rice, Rubbish Bags – Harry Watson, Masterton, Wairarapa

The Bestest Prizes – Michael Botur, Whangārei

The Chef – Jill Varani, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

The End of Summer – Annette Edwards-Hill, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

The Hollow – Anna Granger, Whanganui, Central Districts

The Lanterns – Anna Granger, Whanganui, Central Districts

The Tat – Tim Saunders, Papaioea Palmerston North, Central Districts

Thud-Thud-Thud – Semira Davis, Porirua, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Uncontainable – Phoebe Wright, Ōtautahi Christchurch

White Lies – Vivian Thonger, Kerikeri

Yolk Folk – Zoë Meager, Ōtautahi Christchurch

You Too – Catherine Trundle, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

 

The 2018 NFFD Youth Competition winners can be found here.


 

NFFD Competition Winners

2023 NFFD Competition Winners

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2022 NFFD Competition Winners

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2021 NFFD Competition Winners

Judge Diana Brown: It’s been a privilege and a pleasure to be a judge in National Flash Fiction Day 2021, working alongside Paula Morris.

2020 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges Sandra Arnold and Helen Heath: The variety of stories was wide-ranging, from those with a distinct narrative arc to those that were close to prose poems.

2019 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges Siobhan Harvey and Lloyd Jones: We kept returning to this one particular story because as much as it lets the reader in, it keeps us out.

2018 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges: Tracey Slaughter, Sue Wootton. Discover the winning stories for 2018.

2017 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges: Michael Harlow, Emma Neale. Discover the winning stories for 2017.

2016 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges: James Norcliffe, Elizabeth Smither. Discover the winning stories for 2016.

2015 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges: Fiona Kidman, Owen Marshall. Discover the winning stories for 2015.

2014 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges: Mary McCallum, Frankie McMillan. Discover the winning stories for 2014.

2013 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges: David Lyndon Brown, Vivienne Plumb. Discover the winning stories for 2013.

2012 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges: Graeme Lay, Tina Shaw, Stephen Stratford. Discover the winning stories for 2012.