{"id":32597,"date":"2016-06-24T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32597"},"modified":"2016-06-23T20:15:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T08:15:06","slug":"national-flash-fiction-day-flash-in-the-pan-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/06\/24\/national-flash-fiction-day-flash-in-the-pan-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"National Flash Fiction Day &#038; &#8216;Flash In The Pan&#8217; Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/06\/14\/events-coming-up-a-haarth-qa-plus-national-flash-fiction-day\/flash-2016\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-32510\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Flash-2016-117x150.jpg\" alt=\"Flash 2016\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Flash-2016-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Flash-2016-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Flash-2016-797x1024.jpg 797w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Flash-2016.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday night I was honored to be a guest reader at Christchurch&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1707850749457023\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flash In The Pan<\/a> event, celebrating National Flash Fiction Day.<\/p>\n<p>The event was lively and it was a privilege to hear so much great flash fiction read.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights included six guest readers:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_32608\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/06\/24\/national-flash-fiction-day-flash-in-the-pan-fun\/nffd2016_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32608\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32608\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32608\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NFFD2016_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gathering of the &quot;Flash&quot; crowd\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NFFD2016_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NFFD2016_1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NFFD2016_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NFFD2016_1.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gathering of the &#8220;Flash&#8221; crowd<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Alice Andersen<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Doc Drumheller<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Jane Higgins<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ciaran Fox<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Helen Lowe<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Frankie McMillan<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The evening also focused on hearing finalists and winners from three competitions: for Micro fiction (&lt; 100 words), the SIWA and NZ Flash Fiction competitions.<\/p>\n<p>I thought all the short (short!) fiction read was of a very high standard and that the overall NFFD winner, Heather McQuillan&#8217;s <em>Trampolining in the Matukituki<\/em>, was a worthy winner.<\/p>\n<p>To see the full list of winners for the NFFD competition, click on:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalflash.org\/winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Winners<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I apologise for the paucity of photographic evidence, which may be due to either technical error or user failure. However, I do hope more will be available via the event site soon:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1707850749457023\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flash In The Pan<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night I was honored to be a guest reader at Christchurch&#8217;s Flash In The Pan event, celebrating National Flash Fiction Day. The event was lively and it was a privilege to hear so much great flash fiction read. Highlights included six guest readers: . Alice Andersen Doc Drumheller Jane Higgins Ciaran Fox Helen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32597"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32611,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597\/revisions\/32611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}