National Flash Fiction Day

Announcing the 2023 MICRO MADNESS LONG LIST!

Congratulations to the writers of these micros! These are listed alphabetically by title.
If your work is here, please refrain from announcing which title is yours, as the judges are still deliberating.

Watch for the short list as those micros will be shared here, one each day June 1 – 22.

 

A Composition that Breaks Out of the Confines of the Canvas

A Darker Shade of Red

As the hearse pulls away

But Our Bodies Are Ours

Console

Curriculum

Driving to Dunedin

Each person starts with a full deck

Family Traditions

From Dreams to Bits of Me

House Clearance

It is

It Skipped Like a Stone Casually Flung

Monday Night in Montreal City

Naturally

On a beach that looks like the Maldives but really is ‘only’ Sicily

On the Inaccurate Interpretation of night-time noises

Only Time Will Tell

Paper Doll

Playing Pickle

Re-entry

Saturday at the Reclamation Yard

Slight

Splitting Birch Logs For The Woodstove

Stellium

Still time

Taken

Taking Heed

The Bee and the Sun

The long way home

The Park

The World Upside Down

Toxic

Unfranked, Sender to Return

Wall Space

When the Train Rattles Past, At The Street

Corner

Wildfire

Nau mai haere mai

22 JUNE 2023 – National Flash Fiction Day

Welcome to Micro Madness 2023!

A free international competition — all welcome.

The competition is open!

Please send your stories, up to 100 words, along with a bio up to 50 words, to: flashfrontier@gmail.com

Up to two micros per writer.
Submit by May 15.

We look forward to reading your micros!

2023 Judges

Mikaela NymanMikaela Nyman was born in the autonomous, demilitarised Åland Islands in Finland and lives in Taranaki. Her latest poetry can be found in World Literature Today, Landfall 244The Spinoff Friday poem, the climate change anthology No Other Place to Stand (AUP, 2022), and Trasdemar (in Spanish translation). Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2020 for her first Swedish-language poetry collection När vändkrets läggs mot vändkrets (Ellips, 2019).

Her poem ‘Fem år senare’ was set to music by Finnish composer Peter Hägerstrand as part of the Åland Islands’ centenary celebrations 2022 and will be released as an album in February 2023. Co-editor of Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women’s Anthology (THWUP, 2021). Her first novel Sado was published by THWUP in 2020. Her second poetry collection in Swedish is forthcoming in 2023.

Kathy FishKathy Fish’s short stories, flash fiction, and prose poems have recently appeared in Ploughshares, Washington Square Review, Waxwing Magazine, Copper Nickel, the Norton Reader, and Best Small Fictions. Her fifth collection, Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018, is now in its 2nd print run with Matter Press.

She is a recipient of the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize and a 2020 Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. Her highly sought after Fast Flash© workshops, begun in 2015, have resulted in numerous publications and awards for the hundreds of writers who have taken part.

She publishes a free monthly newsletter, The Art of Flash Fiction, which includes craft articles and writing prompts. She is currently seeking representation for her craft book of the same name.

More Micro Madness

2024 Micro Madness

22 micros will be selected by the judges and published, a micro a day, starting June 1, with the top 3 published on June 20, 21 and 22.

2023 Micro Madness

Welcome to Micro Madness 2023! A free international competition of short stories, up to 100 words.

2022 Micro Madness

Because each story on the Micro Madness long list had something compelling and original, it was challenging to select just 3 winners, but eventually, after many readings, our top three emerged.