2025 Prompts
- NFFD 2025 Prompt #1: Two Seasons
- NFFD 2025 Prompt #2: Hunting Season
- NFFD 2025 Prompt #3: Seasons of Love
- NFFD 2025 Prompt #4: Off Season
- NFFD 2025 Prompt #5: Open Season
2025 Responses
- 'A Misunderstanding' by Liz Barclay
- 'The Season of Balsam Flower Dyeing' by Heain Joung
- 'Riches' by Emily Macdonald
- 'If it Ain't Right, it Must Be Left' by Lisa H. Owens
- 'Diary Entries from 2025' by Mina Otsuka
- 'Seven-Foot Bicentenarian Yearns for his Ticker' by David Lewis
- 'The Price of Bread' by Jane Claire Jackson
- 'Mr September through December. Mr January to March' by Karen Walker
- 'Finding Fire' by Alice Monro
- 'Old Spice' by Rachel Burrows
- 'Cocktails at the end of the world hotel' by Jack Morris
- 'All The Warm Things' by Chloe Paige
- 'From way back in 1970' by Karen Walker
- 'One Resort, Two Seasons' by Jane Claire Jackson
- 'Maze' by Abida Akram
- 'Lonely No More' by Jean Feingold
- 'A nimble light' by Mizuki Yamagen
- 'Bright, Stubborn Things' by Cate McGowan
- 'Big Game Hunter' by Scott MacLeod
- 'Skin Flicks, Voted Best Tattoo Parlor in Town' by Debra A. Daniel
- 'A pocketful of quiet' by Alice Monro
- 'Scar Tissue' by Melissa Flores Anderson
- 'Yes Yes Yes' by Sarah Freligh
- 'Time flies' by Scott MacLeod
- 'Dressed for the weather' by Melissa Flores Anderson
- 'Two seasons' by Maria Sanger
- 'The day of the cats' by Jules Goodlet-Rowley
- 'All the way' by Jeremy Boyce
- 'Isaac Newton saw an apple fall' by Jack Morris
- 'Gower Street Bookshop closes at 9pm' by Judy Darley
- 'Wisdom in a Teacup' by Faye Brinsmead
- 'Papas and Beers' by Melissa Flores Anderson
- 'A Huckster’s How-To of Hustling Gulls' by Jude Potts
- 'Skipped' by Bailey Scroggins
- 'To The Person Who Kept My Amazon Package' by Suzanne Hicks
- 'Sealed Envelopes' by Allison Renner
- 'Not Based on a True Story' by Lucienne Cummings
- 'Down and Up' by Michael Pettit
- 'A Nimby Fails to Console Himself with Fake Flowers from Ikea' by D. X. Lewis
- 'Scuppered' by Emily Macdonald
- 'Purchase Partners with One Year Warranty' by Marzia Rahman
- 'She Was No Wellspring of Ideas' by Sravanthi Challapalli
- 'Cake Walk' by Scott MacLeod
- 'Home' by Jackie Hales
- 'Calida and Frigida' by Lucienne Cummings
- 'Tis the season of not asking him his name' by Roopa Raveendra
- 'Claude' by Cate McGowan
- 'Fiat Lux' by Willow Woo
- 'A Hunt Reaches a Climax' by Sravanthi Challapalli
- 'The Last Poppy' by Jackie Hales
- 'Rainbow Road' by Alice Monro
- 'You, Change, Me' by Madeleine Armstrong
- 'Protection' by Patricia Bender
- 'The Fifth Son' by Birgit K. Gaiser
- 'My Wife Saw Santa' by Mileva Anastasiadou
- 'Unlevel Playing Field' by Jim Parisi
- 'Bert’s Bus' by Joyce Bingham
- 'One Day, I will Climb a Mountain' by Marzia Rahman
- 'Offerings' by Karin Hedetniemi
- 'The Mystery of the Missing Last Nerve' by Athena Law
- 'Summer of T.V. Dinners for One' by Lisa H. Owens
- 'Pressing Clouds' by Cate McGowan
- 'Thirty seconds after you get on the train' by Philippa Bowe
- 'Dust to Dust' by Emily MacDonald
- 'Crystal Healing' by Julie Cunningham
- 'Fred Number Three' by Bronwen Griffiths
- 'Scattering' by Cate McGowan
- 'Holding Harry' by Jane Claire Jackson
- 'A Trace Of Her' by Abida Akram
- 'Hallowe’en Ball' by Birgit K. Gaiser
- 'It’s My Destiny' by Allison Renner
- 'The Waterpark in Winter' by Jane Claire Jackson
- ‘Laughter Between the Lines’ by Alice Monro
- 'Perditus' by Lynda McMahon
- 'Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)' by Chloe Paige
- 'Captain Molasses' by Athena Law
- 'Playing the Boy Scout Outside Aldi in 1975' by D. X. Lewis
- 'Angel wings, boxed. As new.' by Jack Morris
- 'The Empty Slot' by Ida Keogh
- ‘Minus One and Beautiful’ by Alice Monro
- 'Sheila’s Mysterious Gap' by Jane Claire Jackson
- 'What would you do?' by Madeleine Armstrong
- 'When Agatha rediscovered her own love story' by D. X. Lewis
- 'The Perfect Season' by Abida Akram
- 'Fall and Spring Semesters' by Jean Feingold
- 'Sudden Season Change' by Meshv Patel
- 'Mrs Murdoch' by Madeleine Armstrong
- 'Homing instinct' by Jeremy Boyce
- 'Street art of a fox catching a bus at sunrise' by Ida Keogh
- 'When They Walked Out One Winter’s Morning' by Lynda McMahon
- 'Lost, Maybe Forever' by Jean Feingold
- 'The Vixen' by Abida Akram
- 'The Moon in June' by Madeleine Armstrong
- 'The Deepest Part' by Cate McGowan
- 'Joey’s looking for a table' by Katie Willow
- 'When Life Gives You Bitter Hellas Planitia Fruit...' by Lisa H. Owens
- 'A Visit to St Nick' by Lucienne Cummings
- 'Monsoon Season' by Abida Akram
- 'Unknown Overdressed Man Discovered' by Jean Feingold
- 'Let’s Pretend We Didn’t See Each Other' by Gargi Mehra
- 'Drive' by Michele Catalano
- 'An intervention' by Birgit K. Gaiser
- 'Resignation' by Chloe Cook
- 'Four Years' by Allison Renner
- 'Bianca is Happy All the Time' by Jean Feingold
- 'Unclear Cache' by Scaramanga Silk
- 'Never ignore a flashing light' by Alison Wassell
- 'No one sings carols any more' by Chloe Cook
- 'Seasons of sound and silence' by Sarah Oakes
- 'Lost and Found' by Jack Morris
- 'Amusement Parked' by John F King
- 'Meditating about a Carp' by Anne Howkins
- 'Lost' by Michele Catalano
- 'Amanita Sapientia' by Birgit K. Gaiser
- 'Got Lucky' by Michael Pettit
- 'A Day In The Life' by Suzanne Hicks
- 'What’s For Dinner?' by Lucienne Cummings
- 'Time Killer' by Dimitra Fimi
- 'On the Bench Nearest the Disabled Parking' by Rachel Burrows
- 'Persephone in the Forest' by Birgit K. Gaiser
- 'Fresh Canvas' by Lenny Eusebi
- 'The Last Hunt Before Winter' by Noah McWilliam
- 'Seasonal Defiance Reorder' by Adele Gallogly
- 'Home for Christmas' by Allison Renner
- 'Bitter and Sweet' by Suzanne Hicks
- 'Teddy Bear Picnic' by Melissa Flores Anderson
- 'The Gift of Gab' by Lisa H. Owens
- 'Ria, Ria, Ria' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
- 'Would You Rather…?' by Scaramanga Silk
- 'Man’s Best Friend' by Allison Renner
- 'Long Gone, Living On' by Scaramanga Silk
- 'Elapse' by Willow Woo
- 'They Need to Clack' by Philippa Bowe
- 'The News Anchor Read the News, but No One Watched it' by Marzia Rahman
- 'Behind you!' by Jeremy Boyce
- 'Shantay, You Stay' by Elisa Dominique Rivera
- 'Missing Note: Wanted' by Kate Axeford
- 'August' by Angela James
- 'Check Mate' by Scott MacLeod
- 'Suds for Duds' by Lenny Eusebi
- 'P.E.' by Melissa Flores Anderson
- 'Cleopatra' by Madeleine Armstrong