Winner of the National Flash Fiction Day 2025 Sunday the 22nd of June was the shortest day of the year, and as is tradition, the winner of National Flash Fiction Day was also announced. The competition has been running since 2012 and it celebrate...

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Congratulations to all our winners 🥳

Congratulations to all our winners 🥳

Micro Madness 2025 FIRST PLACE: Joani Reese, At the Crossroads Bar YouTube video by Flash Frontier

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Joani Reese is a writer and poet living in Texas, USA. Her most recent hybrid collection is called Night Chorus. Reese curates the AWP offsite reading series Hot Pillow.

🎉 Congrats 🎉 to our June 22 Micro Madness First place 🥇 winner Joani Reese – Texas, USA
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Zoë Deans lives in Ōtautahi. Their poems have been published in places like takahē, The Spinoff and Overcom. They have a lot of respect for anyone who writes flash fiction!

🎉 Congrats 🎉 to our June 21 Micro Madness Second place 🥈winner Zoë Deans – Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Micro Madness 2025 THIRD PLACE: Sue Barker, Mānawa, breathing in the mangroves YouTube video by Flash Frontier

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Sue Barker lives in Waipu, rural Te Tai Tokelau Northland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She writes short form fiction and some poetry. She’s been published in Fast Fibres Poetry, Flash Frontier and two anthologies of Northland flash and in 2025 in Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages.

🎉 Congrats 🎉 to our June 20 Micro Madness Third place 🥉 winner Sue Barker – Waipu, Te Tai Tokelau Northland, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Micro Madness 2025 SHORT LIST: Slawka G. Scarso, When he comes home from work... YouTube video by Flash Frontier

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Micro Madness 2025: Marie Gethins, Anomaly YouTube video by Flash Frontier

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Marie Gethins featured in Winter Papers, Bristol Short Story Prize, Australian Book Review, REED, NFFD Anthologies, Fictive Dream and others. Selected for Best Microfictions, BIFFY50, Best Small Fictions, she is a Hawthornden Fellow, the Banshee flash fiction editor, and co-edits for Splonk.

🎉 Congrats 🎉 to our June 19 Micro Madness shortlist winner Marie Gethins – Cork, Ireland
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Based in Italy, Slawka G. Scarso has published flash and micros in numerous anthologies and magazines including Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit, Mslexia and Flash Frontier. Her debut novella in flash “All Their Favourite Stories” is available from Ad Hoc Fiction. More words on Bluesky

Congrats 🥳 🥳 to our June 18 Micro Madness shortlist winner Slawka G. Scarso – Castel Gandolfo (Rome), Italy
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Kat Ziesler shares her time between her native Norway and New Zealand – and is currently enjoying summer in Oslo. She graduated from Hagley Writers’ Institute in Ōtautahi-Christchurch last year, and was shortlisted for the Margaret Mahy Award. Her stories have appeared in Flash Frontier.

Congrats 🥳 🥳 to our June 17 Micro Madness shortlist winner Kat Ziesler, Oslo, Norway and Aotearoa New Zealand
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Kat Ziesler shares her time between her native Norway & New Zealand, & is currently enjoying summer in Oslo. She graduated from Hagley Writers’ Institute in Ōtautahi-Christchurch last year, & was shortlisted for the Margaret Mahy Award. Her stories have appeared in Flash Frontier & Quick Brown Dog.

Check out National Flash Fiction Day NZ events happening all across Aotearoa on Sunday, 22 June
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