In June, we celebrated flash fiction in Aotearoa and around the world. Online, we held our annual Festival of Flash, with panels, readings and conversations with prize-winning writers, artists and editors.
This year’s festival included the following topics and readers.
All video recordings can be found here.
VIEW FROM HERE: AN EDITOR ROUNDTABLE
Christopher Allen, SmokeLong Quarterly
Robert Barrett, Splonk
Lola Elvy, fingers comma toes
Ingrid Jendrzejewski, FlashBack Fiction
Tracey Slaughter, Mayhem & Poetry NZ
Rachel Smith, Flash Frontier
Moderator: Catherine McNamara, Litro
YOUTH AND EMERGING VOICES
Jack Flanagan (Christchurch, NZ)
Hannah Jay (Dunedin, NZ)
Ashley Malkin (Connecticut, US)
Alin Sengjaroen (Bangkok, Thailand)
Bianca Zou (New York, US)
Moderator: Thomas Charles Cairncross (Dunedin, NZ)
CREATIVE (NON)FICTION: IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH?
Renee Liang
Siobhan Harvey
Bill Nelson
Michelle Elvy
Claire Beynon
Moderator: Mikaela Nyman
WANT AND WHIMSY: BRINGING IMAGINATION TO THE PAGE
Alex Reece Abbott
Janean Cherkun
Jordan Hamel
Erik Kennedy
Kerry Lane
Clare MacQueen
Moderator: Nod Ghosh
READING: AUTHORS SHARE NEW BOOKS
Janis Freegard, Wild, Wild Women (short stories)
Jenna Heller, The End of the Beginning (flash fictions)
Madeleine Slavick, Town (poems, creative nonfictions)
Penelope Todd, Nell (novel)
Moderator: Gail Ingram, anthology (n.) a collection of flowers
READING: BEST SMALL FICTIONS
Sudha Balagopal
Lucie Bonvalet
Jessica Denzer
Insha Hamdani
Lorette C Luzajic
Moata McNamara
Pam Painter
David James Poissant
Emmanuel Nwafor
Eric Scot Tryon
Addie Tsai
Find the book here!