Ripening: National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology 2018

by Santino Prinzi (Editor), Alison Powell (Editor), Tara Laskowski

This seventh annual instalment of the National Flash-Fiction Day (UK) anthology is overflowing with food-themed flashes. Satiate your hunger for fiction with these delicious stories by new and established flash fiction writers. The authors have cooked up a smorgasbord of entertaining, moving and tantalising flashes for your reading delight. From fudge to oysters, apples to mangoes, gingerbread to (of course!) cake, there’s something in this anthology for everyone to sink their teeth into.

Authors include: Tara Laskowski, Christopher Allen, Nancy Stohlman, Frankie McMillan, Meg Pokrass, Nuala O’Connor, Robert Scotellaro, Alison Powell, Kevlin Henney, Jude Higgins, Tim Stevenson, Angela Readman, Megan Giddings, Joanna Campbell, Diane Simmons, and NFFD co-directors, Calum Kerr and Santino Prinzi.

The editors are Santino Prinzi and Alison Powell.

Genres: Short Stories

156 pages, Paperback

First published June 16, 2018

About the author

Santino Prinzi was a Co-Director of National Flash Fiction Day (UK) for a number of years, and helps organise the Flash Fiction Festival in the UK.

His first full-length collection of flash fiction, This Alone Could Save Us is available now from Ad Hoc Fiction.

His flash fiction pamphlet, There's Something Macrocosmic About All of This was published by V-Press in June 2018. Dots, and other flashes of perception, was his fiction mini-collection/chapbook of flash fiction and was published by The Nottingham Review Press in September 2016.

To find out more, please visit his website: Santino Prinzi

Reviews

[Alan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Got to be 5 stars because I'm in it.

..full of goodies.

[Santino · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m obviously slightly biased because I edited this anthology, but objectively this book of food-themed flash fictions is a buffet of delicious treats! Reading aloud a few stories from the launch last night, and hearing authors read theirs, reminded me of how the authors who submitted their work responded to the theme in a variety of ways. For some, food is the main meal, while for others it’s a tiny crumb of detail. There’s something for everyone in this anthology, and I’m immensely proud to be able to share these stories with everyone.

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a story in this anthology. I have been in a few NFFD but this collection, on the theme of food, is perhaps my favourite. There are some wonderful stories, with my favourite being the opening flash ‘Have Your Cake’ by Alison Powell.