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.
New book: Sharni Wilson’s One to many and other experiments
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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 Auckland!...
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 her...
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...
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.
New book: Robert Scotellaro’s Quick Adjustments
Flash Frontier Editor Michelle Elvy talks with Robert Scotellaro about writing micros –from the precision of the form...
Book feature: Pav Deconstructed
About the book Pav Deconstructed: Pavlova through the eyes of everyday Kiwis is a luscious, hard-cover,...
Book feature: Nod Ghosh and two new novellas
This month we talk with former associate editor of Flash Frontier and frequent flash writer Nod Ghosh and hear about...
Book feature: Kate Mahony, Secrets of the Land
This new book launched in September; we’re glad to sit down with frequent contributor and flash fiction writer Kate...
New book: Gail Ingram and Some Bird
Flash Frontier editor Rachel Smith talks with Gail Ingram about navigating female roles, inspiration and identity in...
New story collection: Catherine McNamara, Carnal Fugues
Catherine McNamara launches her new collection at the Australian Short Story Festival in Adelaide, South Australia, in...
New Book: Haibun: A Writers’ Guide by Roberta Beary, Lew Watts and Rich Youmans
This new book celebrates all things haibun – the form, craft and fun in writing and reading these small pieces of...
New book: Sandra Arnold on multiple viewpoints, suspense and knowing what to leave out, in The Bones of the Story
Flash Frontier: Congratulations on your new book! You have written various forms in your long writing career:...
New book: Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories
These deeply original stories create a mesmerising kaleidoscope of experience. –Booklist It has been more than thirty...
Dynamics and energy of a place: Piet Nieuwland’s new collection
Piet Nieuwland has been a frequent contributor to Flash Frontier. Here we talk with him about his new collection, We...
New books: Vaughan Rapatahana and Sophia Wilson
We celebrate two new pocket poetry paperbacks, published in 2023 by flying island books / Cerberus Press. te...
Feature writer: James Norcliffe
This month, we celebrate Flash Frontier editor and multi-talented writer James Norcliffe, who enjoyed a standout year in 2022 with the publication of his new YA book, The Crate.
Flash Feature: Tara L Masih, with her new collection
This month Flash Frontier interviews Tara L. Masih about her new collection ‘How We Disappear!’ We ask what themes connect the novella and the stories and how it came about.
Book feature: Elizabeth Morton
This month Flash Frontier interviews Elizabeth Morton, author of the terrific new collection ‘Naming the Beasts’ and how it’s different to two earlier collections.
2022 John O’Connor Award: Rose Collins, My Thoughts Are All Of Swimming
In conversation with editor Gail Ingram we ask Rose Collins about her debut poetry collection My Thoughts Are All of Swimming, which won the inaugural John O’Connor Award.
Book feature: Tim Saunders, Under a Big Sky
Under a Big Sky is tethered specifically to 2020, and follows the ups and downs of producing food in the face of a debilitating drought, Covid lockdowns, and family illness.
Book feature: Bethany Rogers, Kaleidoscopes in the Dark
Launching at the Queenstown Literary Festival mid-November, these are dark stories. Flash Frontier asks Bethany Rogers about where the inspirations come from.
Breach of All Size: Small stories on Ulysses, love and Venice
This year, on June 16, a new anthology of flash fictions launched in Wellington. We celebrated Bloomsday with voices...
Jerks by Sara Lippmann
This month we congratulate New York writer Sara Lippmann on her new story collection called ‘daring and fearless’ by Steve Almond, and a novel coming later this year.
Book: Love is Make-Believe by Riham Adley
Princess, priestess, runaway, slave-girl, heiress, aquatic siren: women live thousands of lives in the flash fiction of Riham Adly, sometimes in the course of one story.
Iona Winter: On the road with her new book, Gaps in the Light
April 2021 Āe a new pukapuka, and after a slight hitch involving an ambulance and surgery, we headed off on the road...
Piet Nieuwland, with a new book and art exhibit
Flash Frontier: Your work, both poetry and art, carries an environmental kaupapa. Has this been a theme through your...
Book: Philip Brady, The Elsewhere: Poems & Poetics
About The Elsewhere The Elsewhere, Philip Brady’s magnum opus of line and sentence, gathers the before and beyond to...