National Flash Fiction Day

2024 NFFD Competition Winners

FIRST

Brother Savage, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

 

SECOND

Rainbow Mary Francis, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

 

THIRD

The landlord Zita Rose Featherstone, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED

A femur, a rib and two claws Alex Reece Abbott, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Danilo’s Grandad is Weird Sue Kingham, Ōtautahi Christchurch

 

SHORT LIST

Collecting Taxes – Hayden Pyke, Kirikiriroa Hamilton

Dath a’ bhàis – Bethany Rogers, Tahuna Queenstown

synesthesia summer camp and back-to-nature couples’ retreat have a baby – Janean Cherkun, Ōtepoti Dunedin

 

LONG LIST 

And we know – Rebecca Ball, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Fana and the manumea: a fable – Vivienne Bailey, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington Wellington

Fresh Ideas on Office Etiquette – Gerard O’Brien, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Fridge Magnet – Lisa Onland, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington

Incommunicado – Lorraine Carmody, Ōtautahi Christchurch

The Weeping Woman (Exhibit: TAL5662) – Heather McQuillan, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Uppity Little Terrorists – Hayden Pyke, Kirikiriroa Hamilton

 

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

This year’s stories will be published at the end of the month, with judges’ comments, at Flash Frontier and fingers comma toes.

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.