Alex Reece Abbott (www.alexreeceabbott.info) is New Zealand-Irish writer published in Best Small Fictions, Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand among numerous others. A Penguin Random House WriteNow finalist, and London Independent Prize Rising Star, she works across genres and forms. She can be found this month talking with Iona Winter [link to feature]. Antipodean Pepper Tree was published in the anthology A Cluster of Lights (here).
Vivienne Bailey is a Wellington-based freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster. She has a Diploma of Creative Writing, Whitireia NZ and her award-winning short stories have been published in online literary journals and in anthologies including Fresh Ink: A Collection of Voices from Aotearoa NZ (2019). Her flash fiction has appeared online in Flash Fiction: An Adventure in Short Fiction and her children’s novel Cricket Crazy was published in 2021 by The Cuba Press. Fana and the manumea: a fable first appeared on the Long List of the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day competition.
Heather McQuillan is a writer and teacher based in Ōtautahi. She has been featured in Flash Frontier regularly since her first story was published in 2014. In 2016 she was placed first in both the NZ National Flash Fiction Day prize and the Micro Madness prize. Her work has been selected for publication in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Meniscus, Bonsai, takahē, Reflex Fiction, Blue Fifth Review and the UK National Flash Fiction Day and the Bath Flash Fiction anthologies. She has a Master of Creative Writing with Distinction from Massey University. Heather writes novels for young people as well as short stories flash fiction and poetry. The weeping woman (Exhibit: TAL5662) first appeared on the Long List of the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day competition.
Bethany Rogers is a short story writer and poet running (and swimming) wild in Queenstown (NZ). Her work has been published internationally, shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize and longlisted for the New Zealand Flash Fiction Day competition. Kaleidoscopes in the Dark (2023) is her first short story collection. Dath a’ bhàis first appeared on the Short List of the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day competition.
Alex Reece Abbott (www.alexreeceabbott.info) is New Zealand-Irish writer published in Best Small Fictions, Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand among numerous others. A Penguin Random House WriteNow finalist, and London Independent Prize Rising Star, she works across genres and forms. She can be found this month talking with Iona Winter [link to feature]. Antipodean Pepper Tree was published in the anthology A Cluster of Lights (here).
Vivienne Bailey is a Wellington-based freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster. She has a Diploma of Creative Writing, Whitireia NZ and her award-winning short stories have been published in online literary journals and in anthologies including Fresh Ink: A Collection of Voices from Aotearoa NZ (2019). Her flash fiction has appeared online in Flash Fiction: An Adventure in Short Fiction and her children’s novel Cricket Crazy was published in 2021 by The Cuba Press.
Heather McQuillan is a writer and teacher based in Ōtautahi. She has been featured in Flash Frontier regularly since her first story was published in 2014. In 2016 she was placed first in both the NZ National Flash Fiction Day prize and the Micro Madness prize. Her work has been selected for publication in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Meniscus, Bonsai, takahē, Reflex Fiction, Blue Fifth Review and the UK National Flash Fiction Day and the Bath Flash Fiction anthologies. She has a Master of Creative Writing with Distinction from Massey University. Heather writes novels for young people as well as short stories flash fiction and poetry.
Bethany Rogers is a short story writer and poet running (and swimming) wild in Queenstown (NZ). Her work has been published internationally, shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize and longlisted for the New Zealand Flash Fiction Day competition. Kaleidoscopes in the Dark (2023) is her first short story collection.