Category: Interviews and Features

Judges’ Report Eirlys Hunter and Gail Ingram There were 63 youth entries this year, some straightforward, others strange; some stark and others baroquely embellished. We…

Siobhan Harvey and Lloyd Jones   Highly Commended The Visitors This is an entry we kept returning to. It is like one of those pictures…

This month, we asked the 2019 NFFD youth short-listed writers to illustrate their stories in colour… Simon Brown, What Charlie Left and Psycho Steve If…

the everrumble – a small novel in small forms A poetic imagining of intense focus and sweeping ideas. About the book Zettie’s story is fluid…

This year, Simon Brown entered the youth competition for the last time; in 2020 he’ll enter the adult competition for the first time. Each year…

This month, we talk with first place winner Hannah Daniell about her winning story and her writing. Flash Frontier: When did you first start writing…

We are pleased to talk with Cybella Maffitt, whose stories won second and third place in the 2019 youth competition – and whose third submission…

Flash Frontier: Congratulations on winning the 2019 NFFD competition with your story ‘The Boat People‘. What of the title? It’s simple and declarative, yet it…

Regional Prizes sponsored by New Zealand Society of Authors branches Auckland – Leeanne O’Brien (‘Washing-up’) Canterbury – Rose Collins (‘Over the Fields from Ballyturin House,…