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Features
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...
Interview: NFFD 2023 Judges David Eggleton and Airini Beautrais
Flash Frontier Editor Gail Ingram talked this month with the 2023 NFFD judges about their experience as poets and storytellers, including a few tips for writing small fictions.
James Norcliffe: We’re not all bad. We just can’t help ourselves.
In December 2022, we celebrated James Norcliffe’s new novel for young people, The Crate (see that interview here)....
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...
Kōrero: Vaughan Rapatahana with Gina Cole
This month's Flash Frontier featured author is Gina Cole. I asked Gina several questions and I am sure that you will...
Art feature: Digby Webster
Digby Webster is a visual and performing artist. He works across a range of disciplines with extensive and varied dance and performance experience.
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.
Language feature: Helen Heath and Mikaela Nyman
Michelle Elvy talks with Helen Heath and Mikaela Nyman. Mikaela translated a set of Helen’s poetry in 2022, and it was included in the Helsinki Bookfair in October.
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.