National Flash Fiction Day

2023 NFFD Competition Winners

FIRST

Moon landing – Margaret Moores / Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

 

SECOND

Wayfinding – Annabel Wilson, Ohinehou Lyttelton

 

THIRD

Revelations – Annette Edwards-Hill, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shell game – P K Granger, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Uncle – Linda Collins, Ōtepoti Dunedin

 

The youth Winners, Short List and Long Lists can be found at fingers comma toes.

Congratulations to all! We look forward to reading all the top stories in a special edition of Flash Frontier and fingers comma toes at the end of June.

 


THE 2023 SHORT LIST 

 

Because / Some days – Annabel Wilson, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Moon landing – Margaret Moores / Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Revelations – Annette Edwards-Hill, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Shell game – P K Granger, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Shotgun – Mary Francis, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

The kina girl – June Pitman-Hayes, Whangārei

The rocky shore – Janis Freegard, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Uncle – Linda Collins, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Wayfinding – Annabel Wilson, Ohinehou Lyttelton

Wishful thinking – Amber O’Sullivan, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

 


LONG LIST 

 

All hung out: Washing Lines of my Life – Deb Jowitt, Whangārei

Because / Some days – Annabel Wilson, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Eel – Lou Annabell, Te Tara-O-Te-Ika-A-Māui The Coromandel Peninsula

Gymkhana meets Madonna – Sue Barker, Waipū

Lines – Rebecca Ball, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Miss Katherine Mansfield dreams of Menton and the many benefits of Heliotherapy – Alex Reece Abbott, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Moon landing – Margaret Moores / Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

No. 6 and No. 8 – Benjamin Jardine, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Now with 40% less carbs – Liz Breslin, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Once upon a time in West Auckland – Hayden Pyke, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Parietal eye – Janis Freegard, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Revelations – Annette Edwards-Hill, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Rural bliss – Sue Barker, Waipū

Shell game – P K Granger, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Shotgun – Mary Francis, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Talking electricity, my name – Michael Harlow, Manuherikia Alexandra

The harvest – Susan Wardell, Ōtepoti Dunedin

The kina girl – June Pitman-Hayes, Whangārei

The resurrectionist’s apprentice – Atom Gush, Ōtepoti Dunedin

The rocky shore – Janis Freegard, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Took the dog – Visited the sea – Madeleine Child, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Uncle – Linda Collins, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Wayfinding – Annabel Wilson, Ohinehou Lyttelton

Wishful thinking – Amber O’Sullivan, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Woman of letters – Barbara Strang, Ōtautahi Christchurch

NFFD Competition Winners

2023 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges Mikaela Nyman and Kathy Fish: Reading the entries for the NFFD competition was a rich and rewarding experience.

2022 NFFD Competition Winners

Judges Anne Kennedy and Kiri Piahana-Wong: Reading the entries for the NFFD competition was a rich and rewarding experience.

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.