Michael Loveday is an editor, creativity coach, and Visiting Lecturer in Higher Education. He has provided editing and mentoring support on over 30 published novellas-in-flash across a variety of leading publishers (including Ad Hoc Fiction, V. Press, Flash: the International Short-Short Story Press, Bottlecap Press, Ellipsis Zine, Reflex Press, Alien Buddha Press, above/ground Press, WTAW Press, and Hamish Hamilton).
Michael’s book Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022), the first ever complete craft guide to the form, won an Arts Council England Award, a Best Indie Book Award, a Cadmus Book Award, the 2024 Independent Press Award for Writing and Publishing, and was a Finalist or Runner Up in four other international book awards.
Michael was the judge for the 2019 and 2020 Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash Awards, and has given talks, workshops, interviews and chaired panel discussions on the novella-in-flash – including for the Flash Fiction Festival (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024), the National Association of Writers in Education (2019), Novel Nights (2019), National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand (2021), London LitLab (2022 and 2023), and Sheffield Hallam University (2023). He has also hosted the free-to-join Novella-in-Flash Writers & Readers Facebook Group since 2021.
He has written numerous articles about the novella-in-flash / novel-in-flash, including a series about the history of the form for SmokeLong Quarterly magazine. Read Michael’s articles here.
Michael’s main website as an author/facilitator can be found here: https://michaelloveday.com/
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