Flash Frontier
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Art feature: Mataaho Ōpure – Stained glass windows

Moata McNamara talks with Suzanne and Ben Hanly      In St. Faith’s Anglican Church, Ohinemutu, a Māori Christ in ...

New book: Michelle Elvy talks with Robert Shapard about his award-winning collection Bare Ana and other stories – plus flash around the world

This month, Michelle Elvy talked with the 2025 Best Small Fictions Guest Editor Robert Shapard, whose new ...

Introducing our new editors, Moata McNamara & Neema Singh

We are thrilled to welcome Moata McNamara and Neema Singh to our editing team. As Features Editor, Neema will ...

Interview: Neema Singh talks with NFFD Youth Judge Shilo Kino

The National Flash Fiction Day youth competition is open! Details are on the NFFD website. Flash Frontier Editor ...

TE MOANA O REO | OCEAN OF LANGUAGES

Edited by Michelle Elvy and Vaughan Rapatahanapublished by The Cuba Press Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of ...

Micro Madness: Introducing the 2025 judges Renee Liang and Nuala O’Connor

We are thrilled to speak with the judges for the 2025 Micro Madness competition, award-winning writers Renee Liang ...

Interview: Rachel Smith talks with NFFD judges Brannavan Gnanalingam and Vana Manasiadis

The National Flash Fiction Day competition is open! Details are on the NFFD website. Flash Frontier Editor Rachel ...

Author interview: Jeff Friedman – ‘the world we live in is comic and absurd’

Michelle Elvy: You are the author of several collections. How do you go about pulling together a set of stories ...

Art feature: Moata McNamara’s circles cycles

Moata McNamara, TwiningCircles on the screensaver of my phoneOutside on a wild wind circling seagulls soarA circle ...

Feature interview: Rachel Smith and the ‘non-linear process’ of writing for screen

Here at Flash Frontier, we know Rachel Smith as one of our careful and insightful editors – and of course writer ...

Kōrero since 2019

For the last five years, we’ve been running the Kōrero series. Vaughan Rapatahana has interviewed leading ...

Sins of omission: Alex Reece Abbott in conversation with Iona Winter

Alex Reece Abbott is an award-winning NZ-Irish writer, who currently resides in the UK, with work that has been ...

New book: Sharni Wilson’s One to many and other experiments

Launched in August 2024, Sharni Wilson’s hybrid collection, One to many and other experiments, won the At The Bay 2023 flash manuscript award for hybrid writing.

‘Stifled by the truth’: Tina Barry in conversation with Michelle Elvy

‘Stifled by the truth’: Tina Barry in conversation with Michelle Elvy about her imaginative new collection, I Tell ...

Out of time: myth, mystery, story

Four writers sharing flash fictions that operate outside of the bounds of time, with audio for your listening ...

Tiny stories: Vanuatu’s love of storytelling

Mikaela Nyman introduces us to the Sot Sot Storian / Microfiction competition and talks with Anna Naupa and ...

Sot Sot Storian: Vanuatu’s microfiction competition winners

With an interview with joint winner Leina Isno VANUATU SOT SOT STORIAN 2024 FINALISTS JOINT FIRST PLACE – ...

Kōrero: Vaughan Rapatahana and Ruby Solly

Vaughan Rapatahana: Ngā pātai. Can you please tell us your tribal affiliation(s)? Ruby Solly: Ko Kāi Tahu rātou ...

Kōrero: Vaughan Rapatahana and Arihia Latham


In this issue's Kōrero, Vaughan Rapatahana talks with Arihia Latham, author of poetry collection Birdspeak, which was published last year by Anahera Press.

Art feature: Nod Ghosh and rock art

We invited former Flash Frontier editor Nod Ghosh to tell us about her recent adventures in rock art.

Ekphrastic micros: emerging voices from Ōtepoti

In June, the Dunedin National Flash Fiction Day community contributed to the year-long UNESCO City of Literature ...

August launch: One to many and other experiments by Sharni Wilson

Winner of the ATB | ITK 2023 award for a hybrid collection. Launching August 17 at Time Out Books in ...

Gail Ingram: anthology (n.) a collection of flowers

On July 25, former Flash Frontier editor Gail Ingram launched her third poetry collection. We had a long chat with ...

New book: Sandra Arnold’s Below Ground

Sandra Arnold’s new flash fiction collection, Below Ground, was released in the UK on 24 June and launched on the ...

2024 Festival of Flash

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.

New book: Madeleine Slavick’s Town

This month, we are pleased to feature Town, a beautiful, subtly powerful collection from Madeleine Slavick.

New Book: Jenna Heller’s The End of the Beginning

Heather McQuillan launched Jenna Heller’s new book, The End of the Beginning, at Scorpio Books on 13 June in Ōtautahi, a flash fiction collection.

New Book: Janis Freegard’s Wild, Wild Women

Maggie Rainey-Smith launched Janis Freegard’s new book, Wild, Wild Women, at Unity Books on 19 June in Wellington, with a view to what makes this book special.

NFFD 2024: Judges’ writing

Discover the works of NFFD 2024 judges from Aotearoa: Lynn Jenner, Rachel O’Neill, James Norcliffe, and Ya-Wen Ho, in this special feature.

Feature: Savage, and the NFFD 2024 winning story

‘Brother’ is the 2024 winner of the National Flash Fiction Day competition. We asked the author to share a bit about background, inspiration and writing techniques and flow.