This new book launched in September; we’re glad to sit down with frequent contributor and flash fiction writer Kate...
Book feature: Kate Mahony, Secrets of the Land
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Books
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...
Book: Nancy Stohlman, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction
About Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction Once you go short... you don’t come back! Flash fiction is changing...
Book: Seventy Percent Water by Jeanette Sheppard
About the book Someone or something is missing from their lives. The manuscript for Seventy Percent Water won the 2020...
Book: Tina Shaw’s Ephemera
Tina Shaw’s new novel was released March 24 – one day before New Zealand went to Level 4 Alert Lockdown. It’s an...
Book: Eleanor Walsh, Birds with Horse Hearts
Eleanor Walsh won the 2019 Ad Hoc Novella-In-Flash Competition. The winning book, Birds with Horse Hearts, is set in...
Book Extract: Diane Brown, writing in Berlin
An extract from Here Comes Another Vital Moment (Godwit 2006), written when Diane accompanied her husband, Philip...
Book: James Norcliffe, Deadpan
About Deadpan The title of James Norcliffe’s tenth poetry collection points deftly to the way it conveys big emotions...
Book: Tim Jones, Where We Land
About the book A New Zealand Navy frigate torpedoes a boat full of refugees fleeing a drowning country and Nasimul...
Book: Eileen Merriman, Invisibly Breathing
Author commentary Invisibly Breathing is told from the point of view of two sixteen-year-old protagonists: Felix...
Book: Heather McQuillan, Where Oceans Meet
About the book Where Oceans Meet is a collection of stories in which characters yearn for connection but sometimes...
Book: Michelle Elvy’s the everrumble launched in June
the everrumble – a small novel in small forms A poetic imagining of intense focus and sweeping ideas. About the book...