Books and Beyond: Flash Fiction

Books and Beyond is Auckland Libraries’ new radio show! Every Sunday at 9.35pm on Planet FM104.6, we explore the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central Library basement and… beyond.

And every Monday we’ll follow up with a recap of the featured titles here on the blog. You can also listen to us on demand via the Auckland Libraries podcast.

This week’s show featured Leanne Radojkovich, author of the short-story collection First Fox (The Emma Press, 2017) and newly-named winner of the 2018 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition. Leanne writes both short stories and short short stories, or flash fiction, an exciting form of highly compressed narratives which is being celebrated around New Zealand this Friday 22 June for National Flash Fiction Day.

Listen to this Books and Beyond episode on the Auckland Libraries podcast.

Books and authors mentioned:

• Short story authors Aimee Bender, Kelly Link and Camilla Grudova  
• Flash fiction writer Frankie McMillan’s  collection My mother and the Hungarians and other small fictions touching on family relationships and the refugee experience,  which was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
• Janet Frame’s  short story 'The birds began to sing', from the book The lagoon and other stories
• Flash Frontier, a New Zealand online journal of short fiction writing

If you’d like to read more flash fiction, Leanne recommends you do a google search for “Flash fiction” to turn up a plethora of journals and websites from around the world and start reading!

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm. Listen to recent shows via the Auckland Libraries podcast.