We’d like to close the week with a celebration of our latest award nominees. Congratulations and good luck to our winter and spring nominees for the Best British and Irish Flash Fiction award: A Falling from the Sky by Aileen…
2019 Summer Microfiction Competition: Moon Landing
20 July 2019 marks fifty years since the Apollo Moon Landing. To celebrate that small step and giant leap, FlashBack is holding our second historical microfiction competition. We are looking for flash fiction, prose poetry and hybrid work of up…
BackStory: Five Questions with Riham Adly
BackStory: Six Questions with Riham Adly Author of Why I Left You That Day in a Pawnshop What inspired you to write ‘Why I Left You That Day in a Pawnshop’? There is a deep-rooted longing in me to the…
Why I Left You That Day in a Pawnshop
Why I Left You That Day in a Pawnshop by Riham Adly I pawned you for cheap, for real cheap on the bitter-cold, July night of 1952, amidst the changing face of our city. I went to the pawn-shop on…
BackStory: Five Questions with K. Noel Moore
BackStory: Five Questions with K. Noel Moore Author of Homecoming Who are your favourite historical fiction writers and why? A: Emma Donoghue, hands down. I loved Room as much as anybody, but it’s her historical work I really can’t get…
Homecoming
Homecoming by K. Noel Moore Someone’s bound to recognize me among the influx of new arrivals to Richmond Barracks. Someone’s bound to realize that as court-martials begin and a steady trickle of prisoners are set free, I remain inside. I’m…
BackStory: Five Questions with Adachioma Ezeano
BackStory: Five Questions with Adachioma Ezeano Author of Of Chinwoke What inspired you to write ‘Of Chinwoke’? I grew up surrounded by stories about the Biafra war. Stories about families that stayed together, loved, were almost unbroken, until a child…
Of Chinwoke
Of Chinwoke by Adachioma Ezeano Papa didn’t drink the pap I passed him. Papa just picked six pieces of the bean-cakes, and pushed over his plates. Chinwoke would have run to Papa. He would have taken the remaining bean-cakes, carried…
BackStory: Five Questions with C. G. Thompson
BackStory: Five Questions with C. G. Thompson Author of Sixteen Time Zones from Home What inspired you to write ‘Sixteen Time Zones from Home’? Several of my relatives served in World War II, though in some cases I didn’t know…