National Flash Fiction Day

So it turns out that June 22 is National Flash Fiction Day (flash fiction is very short fiction, e.g. Shorter Stories) . Catalyst is a group that organises monthly live poetry events and is organising a flash fiction performance event on the 22nd (the next poetry open mic night should be June 5 at the Pegasus Arms). Details for the upcoming Christchurch event are here.

Also, there is a national competition for flash fiction, which closes very soon! Here are the details:

Competition Rules for 2012

• competition open to all NZ citizens and residents
• open competition; no theme or prompt
• only previously unpublished* work may be submitted
• deadline for submissions: 1 June 2012
• word limit: 300 excluding title
• maximum three stories per person
• electronic submissions only
• submissions must be received  no later than midnight, 1 June 2012
• submissions must be sent as attachments to nationalflash@gmail.com
  
  *Published means anything that has already appeared anywhere in print or online, including personal websites or blogs.
  
  
  More details here
  
  
  
  I have emailed the organisers and confirmed that the deadline is 11.59pm June 1, meaning stories must be in by that time Friday night.
  
  Unfortunately none of the stories already published on this blog can be submitted but I would think that if the original authors wanted to edit them further that would be okay, or you could always just go for three rounds of Shorter Stories to get three sweet submissions. Good luck!