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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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On seeing and feeling Flash Frontier: You have noted before: ‘For me art is about ‘feeling’, poetic descriptions and...

Then and now: Kathy Derrick

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First published in our January 2012: FRONTIERS issue

Interview: Vera Hua Dong, 2022 NFFD Winner

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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

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First published in our January 2012: FRONTIERS issue

Then and now: Nod Ghosh

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First published in our April 2013: HIGH TIDE issue

Then and now: Teoti Jardine

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First published in our April 2013: HIGH TIDE issue

Then and now: Eileen Merriman

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First published in our August 2013: SNOW issue

Then and now: Mike Crowl

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First published in our February 2012: HEAT issue

Then and now: Jane Swan

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First published in our August 2013: SNOW issue

Then and now: Jac Jenkins

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First published in our January 2012: FRONTIERS issue

Then and now: Heather McQuillan

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First published in our June 2014: NFFD issue

Then and now: Abha Iyengar

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First published in our October 2012: FLIGHT issue

Keri Hulme at Flash Frontier: An interview and a tribute

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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.

Interview: Jack Remiel Cottrell, NFFD 2022 Youth Judge

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Flash Frontier Editor Rachel Smith talked this month with the 2022 NFFD youth judge about process and scratching out, on taking risks, and tips for writing small fictions.

Interview: NFFD 2022 Judges Anne Kennedy and Kiri Piahana-Wong

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The National Flash Fiction Day competition is open! Details are on the website. Flash Frontier Editor Gail Ingram...

Interview: Emma Neale

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This month we chat with Emma Neale, author of The Pink Jumpsuit, a collection of short stories and we are glad to celebrate it here at Flash Frontier!