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.
Interview: Jack Remiel Cottrell, NFFD 2022 Youth Judge
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
The National Flash Fiction Day competition is open! Details are on the website. Flash Frontier Editor Gail Ingram...
Interview: Emma Neale
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!
Interview: Sophia Wilson and Jenna Heller, 2021 Caselberg Trust Poetry Competition winners
Interview with the first and second place winners of the 2021 Caselberg Trust Poetry Competition Flash Frontier:...
Book interview: Poetry Live! anthology, with editors Sam Clements and Jamie Trower
Flash Frontier: Congratulations on compiling a collection that celebrates forty years of Poetry Live! It must have...
Interview: Kathryn van Beek on writing for adults and writing for children
Flash Frontier: How did you come to creative writing in the first place? What is the first thing you wrote? Kathryn...
Interview: Robert Scotellaro on his new book, What Are the Chances?
Flash Frontier: What is at the heart of this new collection? Does the cover give away the contents – or is it meant to...
Interview: Catherine McNamara, Love Stories for Hectic People
A conversation with Catherine McNamara, with her new book, Love Stories for Hectic People. Flash Frontier: Let's talk...
Interview: Kerry Lane, NFFD 2021 Youth Judge
Flash Frontier Editor Gail Ingram talked this month with the 2021 NFFD youth judge about their content and form, inspirations behind reading and writing, and tips for writing small fictions.
Interview: NFFD 2021 Judges Paula Morris & Diane Brown
This month, Flash Frontier Editor Rachel Smith talked with the 2021 NFFD judges about their new books, the art of...
Interview: Adrienne Jansen on the new poetry anthology, Somewhere a cleaner
Eds. Adrienne Jansen, Te Rongomai Tipene-Matua, Joan Begg, Wesley Hollis, Nicky Subono During the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Interview: Mark Crimmins on his new book and COVID-19 in Chiang Mai
Capturing the moment: Mark Crimmins on his new book, the tactile experience of writing and his response to the COVID...