FUEL anthology publication day!

 

It's publication day for the anthology I edited, FUEL: 75 prizewinning flash fictions by authors around the globe raising funds to fight #FuelPoverty! Buy the book here: https://taniahershman.com/wp/fuelflash/—all proceeds donated to

National Energy Action, The Centre for Sustainable Energy,Energy Action Scotland and the Fuel Bank Foundation. #NationalHousewarmingDay  And please do join us at the launch TONIGHT (Wed Feb 15th), hosted by Writers HQ, book here!

 

Authors: Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Gail Anderson, Jack Barker-Clark, Zoe Barkham, Laurie Bolger, Andrew Boulton, Melissa Bowers, Sharon Boyle, Jude Brewer, Peter Burns, Claire Carroll, Matthew Castle, Kim Catanzarite, Kevin Cheeseman, Tim Craig, Kit de Waal, Emily Devane, Monica Dickson, Dara Yen Elerath, Abby Feden, Jeremy Galgut, Frances Gapper, Jo Gatford, Rosie Garland, Vanessa Gebbie, Lucy Goldring, Tania Hershman, Sarah Hilary, Sara Hills, Marissa Hoffmann, Patrick Holloway, Mary-Jane Holmes, Barbara Kuessner Hughes, Vicki Jarrett, Gaynor Jones, Louise J Jones, Taria Karillion, Ida Keogh, Brenden Layte, Cathy Lennon, D. Brody Lipton, Michael Logan, Rosaleen Lynch, Fiona McKay, Pauline Masurel, Sherry Morris, Rachel O’Cleary, Valerie O’Riordan, Gillian O’Shaughnessy, Phil Olsen, Sam Payne, Doug Ramspeck, Angela Readman, Electra Rhodes, Jane Roberts, Iain Rowan, Nicholas Ruddock, Iona Rule, Helen Rye, Bean Sawyer, Seamus Scanlon, Bernadette M Smyth, Brianna Snow, David Swann, Dri Chiu Tattersfield, Sharon Telfer, Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, Rob Walton, Terry Warren, Rowena Warwick, Mandy Wheeler, Joanna Will, Jo Withers, Alison Woodhouse

 

Their amazing stories won first prize in competitions including:

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& more!

 

FUEL: An Anthology of 75 Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty

 

I made a book! FUEL is an anthology of 75 flash fictions from authors around the globe that have all won first prize in a competition - with all proceeds donated to fuel poverty charities here in the UK! Publication date is Feb 15th, you can find out more and pre-order here - and please do join us at the online launch party, hosted by Writers HQ, also on Feb 15th, tickets pay-what-you-can, all proceeds donated to fuel poverty charities.

Copies are already out in the world - this photo is by one of the 75 brilliant anthology contributors, Sara Hills!

Happy National Flash Fiction Day - And A Giveaway!

It's National Flash Fiction Day!! Here's hoping you all have a good one... head over to the official website to find out what's going on around the country! A huge round of applause for founder and organizer Calum Kerr, what a job this man has done. Wow. Check out his Flash Flood journal, with a veritable cascade of fantastic flash fiction posted since midnight last night, and ongoing! The Thresholds short story forum has a great article celebrating the day, and Twitter-length flash fiction that has been submitted.Also: the amazing anthology he has produced, Jawbreakers, which includes stories by Ali Smith, Ian Rankin, and more (including me) is FREE to download just today for the Kindle. Get it here. And the Flash Fiction South West's gorgeous anthology, Kissing Frankenstein and Other Stories, is available here.

And me? Well, I'm heading off shortly to Oxford to the gorgeous Albion Beatnik bookstore (see the pic) for Eight Cuts' Flash Fiction Slam which starts at 6.30pm tonight, a feast of flash fiction slammers going head to head (not me, I'm too cowardly). I shall be offering gentle comments on the proceedings and some stern words about the joys of flash fiction. Come join us!

If you can't make any of the events, not sure what this is all about, a great place to start are the anthologies that first inspired my love for the short short story:

This is a pic of them on my desk... they were published from the 1980s onwards (no flash fiction was not invented in the 21st century), all edited by the indominitable Robert Shaphard and James Thomas, and include luminaries such as Grace Paley, Aimee Bender, Barry Yourgrau, and many many more.

The eagle-eyed amongst you many notice that I actually have TWO copies of Sudden Fiction: American Short Short Stories, and so to honour this day I am going to give away a copy to one lucky blog reader. No need to do anything, just express interest in the comments section and one person will be picked out of a hat later in the week. I will send it anywhere in the world...

Happy happy flash fiction day!