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
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Interviews
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...
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.’
Art, light and community: Michelle Elvy talks with featured visual artist Manu Berry
Michelle Elvy talks with featured visual artist Manu Berry.
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.
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.
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.
The Novella-in-Flash: A conversation with Michael Loveday
Flash Frontier: To start: What's the fuss? What's so special about the novella-in-flash? Michael Loveday: For me it’s...
Kōrero: Vaughan Rapatahana and Iona Winter
This month, Iona Winter joins the Flash Frontier team of editors. As Guest Editor for the AWA issue, she selected this...
Book interview: Erik Kennedy
Flash Frontier: This is your second collection – congratulations! To start: how do you know when you have a set of...
Art feature interview: Noa Noa Von Bassewitz
On seeing and feeling Flash Frontier: You have noted before: ‘For me art is about ‘feeling’, poetic descriptions and...
Then and now: Kathy Derrick
First published in our January 2012: FRONTIERS issue
Interview: Vera Hua Dong, 2022 NFFD Winner
Congratulations! You’ve just won the 2022 NFFD competition with your story ‘Golden phoenix, grey hen’. Can you tell us something about this story?
Then and now: Tim Jones
First published in our January 2012: FRONTIERS issue
Then and now: Nod Ghosh
First published in our April 2013: HIGH TIDE issue
Then and now: Teoti Jardine
First published in our April 2013: HIGH TIDE issue
Then and now: Eileen Merriman
First published in our August 2013: SNOW issue
Then and now: Mike Crowl
First published in our February 2012: HEAT issue
Then and now: Jane Swan
First published in our August 2013: SNOW issue
Then and now: Jac Jenkins
First published in our January 2012: FRONTIERS issue
Then and now: Heather McQuillan
First published in our June 2014: NFFD issue
Then and now: Abha Iyengar
First published in our October 2012: FLIGHT issue
Keri Hulme at Flash Frontier: An interview and a tribute
In November 2012, during our first year of publication, we published an interview with the literary hero of many, Keri Hulme. We were honoured she decided to speak with us.