Let’s begin with your new exhibition, ‘Rod Eales: Art of the Flower – currently featured at the Eastern Southland Gallery. Gardens and flowers.

Flash around Aotearoa: Queenstown Lakes
Flash writer and local from Queenstown Lakes, Bethany Rogers, tells us about flash in the region and shares some flash...
Flash around Aotearoa: Waikato
Tracey Slaughter, writer, teacher and editor, tells us about flash in the Waikato region and shares some flash from...
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...
Celebrating Mansfield 2023: a Phantom Billstickers series
A set of micros and creative nonfiction works written for a special Katherine Mansfield Phantom Billstickers series...
Celebrating Mansfield 2023: Redmer Yska, on getting to know KM
We are delighted to welcome Redmer Yska, who shares his adventure Katherine Mansfield and his new book Katherine...
Kōrero: Vaughan Rapatahana and Ben Brown
This month’s Flash Frontier featured author is Ben Brown, award-winning children’s author, poet and storyteller – and,...
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...
Kōrero: Vaughan Rapatahana and Brian Potiki
This month's Flash Frontier featured author is Brian Potiki, who is a poet, playwright, scriptwriter, songwriter and...
Feature: The 2023 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition
from AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU A new story competition for writers of short stories, hybrid works and flash fiction....
New story collection: Catherine McNamara, Carnal Fugues
Catherine McNamara launches her new collection at the Australian Short Story Festival in Adelaide, South Australia, in...
Nature at the centre of everything: Rachel Smith talks with featured artist Dr Tabatha Forbes
Nature at the centre of everything: Rachel Smith talks with featured artist Dr Tabatha Forbes.
Across oceans: Ashley Johnson on releasing the taniwha and shifting perspectives
In 2022 I was invited to participate, with Pip Adam, in a kōrero for a project called ‘ĀPŌPŌ / TOMORROW’, edited by Michelle Elvy and Witi Ihimaera.
Across oceans: Ghazaleh Golbakhsh & Catherine McNamara
Two writers talk of what motherhood may or may not mean – rebelling against norms, expectations and boundaries....
Best Small Fictions 2023 sampler
Following June’s Festival of Flash, we asked several more BSF contributors to share their story. Below we include a...
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...
Kōrero: Vaughan Rapatahana with Jenna Heller
This month’s Flash Frontier featured author is Jenna Heller, winner of the inaugural AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU...
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:...
Interview: John Brantingam on the novella-in-flash, poetry and being Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate
Flash Frontier: Welcome, John! You wear many hats, and most recently you are the current judge of the Bath...
NFFD 2023: New writing from the judges
In this special feature, we share work from our NFFD 2023 judges: David Eggleton and Airini Beautrais, who judged the NFFD adult competition, and Mikaela Nyman, who co-judged the Micro Madness competition.
NFFD 2023: Festival of Flash
Each year, we celebrate National Flash Fiction Day online with a set of panels, readings and discussions.
Interview: Margaret Moores, 2023 NFFD winner
Judges Airini Beautrais and David Eggleton note this about the story: ‘Its mysterious poetry, its elegiac and poignant qualities, are neatly combined with humour.’
NFFD 2023: Events around Aotearoa
This year, we celebrated June 22’s National Flash Fiction Day with events around the country, from North to South.
Micro Madness 2023 – The Long List
From hundreds of submissions, the long list of 37 stories was selected by judges Kathy Fish and Mikaela Nyman. We hope you enjoy the startling nature of the micro with these stories!
Art, light and community: Michelle Elvy talks with featured visual artist Manu Berry
Michelle Elvy talks with featured visual artist Manu Berry.
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...
Shine: Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch on dance, light and transformation through movement
Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch, originally from the UK, is the creative director and owner of ZeoT dance studio in Zürich,...
Micro Madness 2023 Judges: Rachel Smith talks with Kathy Fish and Mikaela Nyman
On Ideas and Themes Rachel Smith: In your own writing, both of you have created work that reaches across cultural...