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With many thanks to the editors of @atriumpoetry.bsky.social

The amazing Sarah Freligh, always spot-on...

Great news! I'm in the flood again this year - fourth or fifth year running! Many thanks to the tireless editors for all the work they put into this! ✍️

FlashFlood: 'Waxing' by Lucienne Cummings #nffd2026

In honor of the great @mattkendrick.bsky.social's 40th birthday, read this ridiculously joyful and weird flash from 2024 in @moonparkreview.bsky.social. I have thought about this story so many times since I first read it. moonparkreview.com/issue-29-fal...

A flash journal interview with Brian Mihok, matchbook's editor. It is an open and generous look into the journal's editorial process. more here: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/100224...

Oh, my tiny little piece is up... Huge thanks to the editors for including me again this year! I can't wait to read some of the other tiny jewels✍️💎💎#nffd2026

WHAT A STORY!!!! If you read nothing else today, read this 👌It had me smiling, laughing, crying all at the same time. Huge congrats, Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social

National Flash Fiction Day

By Matt Kendrick It was the first painting we looked at on our visit to the gallery. I said it was kind of beautiful. The tongue had a sensual quality. But Hadley didn’t see it. She said the painti…

I want to slice the moon like a cake. One of those endless nights, when you’re away on another of your myriad work trips, I’ll reach out of the bedroom window with a sharp knife – the one I use for cutting sinews and bone – and I’ll carve through the rippled surface, to the marbled layer beneath. The house will protest as I squeeze the slice indoors, dragging tangled stars behind it. Luna, our cat, will hiss, but then she’ll sniff, and lick, until her rough pink tongue smoothes old boot prints, and excavates a new Sea of Tranquillity. I will shut her out onto the landing and ignore her cries, because it’s my moon cake, and I can no longer resist its coconut-cream scent. The first bite will make my teeth chatter, but the second will make me glow - lips, teeth, and mouth first, then my head, hair, and neck. When I eat through the moon’s crunchy meringue topping to its creamy centre, my belly will be quicksilver, and the tiny hairs on my arms will sparkle. I’ll have no more use for lanterns, or candles, or fires; no more use for a weapon by the bed, or holding my breath at every floorboard’s creak. Come the last bite, I’ll be weightless as a dandelion seed, hollow as a hag-stone, gravity-free. I will never be afraid of night again. --- Lucienne Cummings writes tiny things in north-east England. Her flash/micro-fiction has appeared in National Flash Fiction Day’s Anthology, FlashFlood, Mslexia’s Best Women's Short Fiction Anthology, Trash Cat Lit, Funny Pearls, and others. Her comedy writing has been broadcast on TV and radio by the BBC. Find out more at https://luciennecummings.com/

The Village with All of the Flash Writers

FlashFlood: 'Lipstick' by Sarah Freligh #nffd2026

Morning After – Nora Nadjarian @noranadj.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/31/m...

Gonna have to do a new thread! Stories received from the following so far:Netherlands, Japan, Ireland, Cambodia, Spain, UAE, Australia, France, USA, Turkey, Nigeria, UK, Canada, India. Greece, New Zealand, Cyprus & South Korea! Subs close 25/4! flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

FlashFlood: 'Still Life' by Nora Nadjarian #nffd2026

And the winner is 'Something About My Father Who I Never Really Knew' by Zoë Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Congratulations & welcome to the Pride. We're so grateful to @saloneurope.bsky.social for gifting our winner with a one-year membership.♥️ theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/03/flas...

'A Snow Globe on and Iceberg' sounds amazing. Check out more amazing workshops by the inimitable Matt Kendrick!

"and it was hoarse as if she’d been crying, and flat and toneless, as if she’d given up on herself" Brilliant writing from @noranadj.bsky.social; the way this builds and build and builds theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/03/flas...

National Flash Fiction Day

We learned to paint our mouths kissable, but were taught not to. By the parish priest, by our mothers, by Seventeen magazine. Never on the first date, never more than one boy at a time, never below the neck. We practiced on the mirror and at slumber parties. When boys scratched on the window, we giggled and shivered. Only Lana slipped out, came back smeared and tight-lipped, full up with stories she wouldn’t tell us. At school on Monday, we lipsticked the mirror in the third-floor girl’s room: LANA SUCKS. Later we all learned. Later we all did it. --- Sarah Freligh is the author of eight books, including HEREAFTER, winner of the 2024 Bath Novella-in-Flash contest, and OTHER EMERGENCIES (Moon City Press, 2025). 'Lipstick' was first published in 100-Word Story in 2021.

National Flash Fiction Day

ALT: a globe with a map of the world showing the middle east

Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

Mum has ketchup on her finger, she’s been painting on empty plates again. Bobbi and I, elbows on the table, wait for her promises to sizzle, to pop. The kitchen smells of fried and crispy nothing balls and in the TV ad some kids are licking colours, chewing Gummy Bears, their tongues all rainbowy. It’s all an illusion, this life thing, Mum says. But still. Bobbi’s eyes water, my mouth too. The plate is a pizza is a plate. The plate is a pizza and it breaks when Dad kicks the table. Mum has ketchup on her finger. --- Nora Nadjarian is a poet and writer from Cyprus. Her short fiction has been published in journals including Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit and was chosen for Wigleaf‘s Top 50 (selected by Kathy Fish). She placed third in the Welkin Writing Prize in 2025.

My summer workshop series is now open for bookings. Two in-depth workshops full of writing craft tips and techniques, and exercises to get you embedding new skills. "A Snow Globe on an Iceberg" and "What is Learnt in the Cradle" Full details below...