An excerpt from her recently published book about walking Te Araroa A dewy frost coats the ground and tunnel webs spun...

Stars around the world
This month, in addition to the stories from Aotearoa New Zealand for Matariki, we also introduce stories and poems...
The Harry Ransom Center’s Flash Fiction Library
An interview with founding collectors Robert Shapard, Tara Lynn Masih, Robert Scotellaro, Pamela Painter and Tom...
The Art of Writing Small: A Roundtable with Journal Editors Around the World
Panelists Christopher Allen, SmokeLong Quarterly (Germany), is the author of the flash fiction collection Other...
Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction: an international reading
Contributors Best Microfiction 2020 Steven John’s writing has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, Spelk,...
2020 NFFD competition judges’ notes
This year’s judges for the adult competition were Sandra Arnold and Helen Heath. Thank you for sharing comments on the...
Fiction and reality: Sandra Arnold on writing The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell
After the second major earthquake in Christchurch in 2011, I wrote a short story to capture some of the horror through...
Jeremy Roberts: On character, language and telling a Kiwi story
This month, we caught up with Napier poet Jeremy Roberts to talk about character-building (in story and real life / in...
In Conversation: Guest Editors Zana Bell and Gill Stewart
Zana Bell: Gill, I was surprised when I first learnt you were writing romance - I'd never thought of you as a romance...
Book Interview: Sandra Arnold, Soul Etchings
A look at guest editor Sandra Arnold's new collection and a conversation with James Norcliffe. Interview James...
NFFD 2019 Judges’ Notes – Youth
Judges' Report Eirlys Hunter and Gail Ingram There were 63 youth entries this year, some straightforward, others...
NFFD 2019 Judges’ Notes – Adult
Siobhan Harvey and Lloyd Jones Highly Commended The Visitors This is an entry we kept returning to. It...
NFFD Youth: If your story were a colour…
This month, we asked the 2019 NFFD youth short-listed writers to illustrate their stories in colour... Simon Brown,...
Artist Commentary: Claire Beynon, Many as one
This growing honeycomb is a whole of many parts whose purpose is to stitch together a cross-section of life as...
Gaylene Barnes: Compassion Expansion
This is the symbol of the Breath of the Compassionate – "An-Nafas ar-rahmani”. Of the ninety-nine knowable names of...
Linda Edeiken: On Slow Art
I make spectacular one-of-a-kind beaded art necklaces and bracelets. Many people have remarked that they look like...
April 2019: LOVE – Authors’ Commentaries
Contents Mark Crimmins on 'Saint Jean' Emma Neale on 'Turn' Kari Nguyen on 'Bloom' Renee Liang on 'Puku' Simon Chun...
Story: Steven Gowin, Rwanda Suite: Concubines – Rwanda
Our Québécois neighbor kept a concubine next door in one of the university apartments called The Motel. Fifty-six...
Art: Tingatinga Painting – Tanzania
Tingatinga paintings are part of the Ndonde mural art tradition. The Ndonde people decorate their huts with various...
Art: Lionel Smit – Cape Town, South Africa
An introduction to the artist, from his official biography Lionel Smit is considered one of South Africa’s most...
Story: Andrew Salomon, Where the Wild Things Are – Cape Town, South Africa
This was back in ninety-six, a mere two years after democracy. Struggling to find work in archaeology (that’s what you...
NFFD 2018 Youth Round Table
This month, we asked five talented youth writers to share their worlds and their writing. Four of these young writers...
Artist Feature: Kristin Fouquet
Kristin Fouquet attempts to convey a story with each photograph. New Orleans, with its rich culture, music, and...
People in our Pages: Zoë Meager
Writer Zoë Meager in converations with Flash Frontier editor Sam Averis. Sam Averis: Early in your flash ‘Plaster...
Liz Breslin: Small Talk – Short Short Stories in Cosmopolitan
a short short essay about the short short stories found in Cosmo A magazine is the holder of short sharp objects,...
Brindi Joy: New Orleans Stories
floodwaters, tinderboxes and a bear In 2004, hurricane Ivan hurtled toward New Orleans. We evacuated. My family and I...
Charlotte Hamrick: Writing in New Orleans
How can I explain the many ways living in New Orleans has influenced my writing? To say it’s a city steeped in...
Sue Wootton: The Yield
I love words that lean in more than one direction at once. ‘Yield’ is one of those excellent, very old English...
Elizabeth Smither: Night Horse
Flora and fauna? I flicked through the contents of ‘Night Horse’ to see what I could find. There were plenty of...
South Island Writers’ Association Flash Fiction
Contents Interview: Rata Ingram, SIWA flash fiction competition winner Verus Amicus Cognoscitur – Rata Ingram That’s...