We’re very pleased to announce our much delayed Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Vol seven has now been posted out to contributors. There are 88 stories within the anthology from participants and presenters who attended our online festivals in late 2023 and early 2024 and our July 2024 inperson festival. Vol Seven will also be available for sale at Adhocfiction.com (one of our festival sponsors) soon.

This violet-coloured anthology is the last of the ‘Rainbow Series’ of Festival anthologies. The red one was published in 2017 after the first Flash Fiction Festival and Volume five contains stories from the monthly online festivals that Jude hosted during the pandemic years in 2020 and 2021. We’re proud to show all seven covers together in the picture above.

If you are coming or would like to book for the 2025 in person festival, you have another opportunity to be published in our 2025 anthology. There are currently 8 places with accommodation left and ten without accommodation. We’re not sure of the colour for this year’s yet! We already have some stories to be published by the winners of the online festival days in late 2024 and January this year. (Read those in other blog posts on this site). Everyone who comes to the inperson festival can submit stories for consideration by Festival Director Jude Higgins and writer and Director of National Flash Fiction Day UK, Diane Simmons, who has helped compiled all of the seven anthologies

If you are a winner of the Pokrass Prize, the festival contest, you will also be published in the anthology

Hope to see you at the 2025 Festival! We have participants and presenters coming from all parts of the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Switzerland Cyprus, the US, Canada and India. It is very friendly and fun and there are so many excellent and inspiring workshops and panels to choose from as well as a bookshop devoted to the short form, the bar with Karaoke entertainment if you want, beautiful grounds and a quiet lounge to chat in with flash fiction friends.