23 Jun 2023

National Flash Fiction Day celebrated

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 23 June 2023

Yesterday was the shortest day of the year and with that comes the annual National Flash Fiction Day.

The competition has been running since 2012 and it celebrates short stories in all their glory.

The winners were announces last night with Auckland's Margaret Moores came out on top of the adults category with her story 'Moon Landing'.

Judges David Eggleton and Airini Beautrais compare it to "mysterious poetry" and said it had "elegiac and poignant qualities, neatly combined with humour".

Margaret speaks to Jesse about her work.

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