Edward Barnfield

Present tense.

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

@punk_magazine Congratulations!

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

Ho ho horror. Really pleased to have my “Quantum Christmas” story here, featuring… me (and a special guest).

[Weird Christmas @weird_christmas]

The 2025 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology Show exists in the wild! Listen on your favorite podcast app or at the link below. I'm still adding the text of the stories to the site, but they will all be there asap.

https://t.co/px3YPJgwXP

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

Boom. Really pleased to have a short short in amongst all these one-line-wonders. Big thanks, @punk_magazine

[Punk Noir Press @punk_magazine]

One Shot Kill — Issue 3 — Featuring: Zachary Wilhide, Terena Elizabeth Bell, Nathan Pettigrew, Dr. John A. Tures, William Draycott, David M. Simon, Keith Roysdon, Scott MacLeod, Lawrence Kithcart, and Edward Barnfield https://t.co/8KhuUCiRrD

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

@JoyceCarolOates Martin Amis wrote that the ghost of Dolores Hayes haunts the book, and that many readers miss her death. That helped define it as a tragedy.

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

Find the beef, the beer, the bread, then look behind. 

RIP Tony Harrison.

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

My story was posted at 9am this morning, and they already made a film about it….
#flashflood #nffd2025
@nationalflashfd

https://t.co/QIaBTrqBIf

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Boston Dynamics just stole the show on America’s Got Talent with this insane dance performance.

[National Flash Fiction Day @nationalflashfd]

FlashFlood: 'Today is the New Tomorrow' by Edward Barnfield https://t.co/Er4yPx3pw3 #nffd2025

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

@farhanashaikh Congratulations!

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

@James_W_Wood Thanks James. And congrats on the Strands win.

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

So, if you ever lose faith in the power of the short story, the speech below - which Ken Leung knocks out the park - borrows from a Denis Johnson story, “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden”.

Eric Tao "Money is Peace" speech https://t.co/7wTP046pOF via @YouTube

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

You never know, is my point. You put the words out there, and you never know who they impact and who they move. Denis Johnson, in the same collection, writes: “It’s plain to you that at the time I write this, I’m not dead, but may be by the time you read it.”

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

Written around 2013, a couple of years before he was diagnosed with the liver cancer that killed him, it gets revived as part of a hit HBO / BBC series and speaks to a new generation a decade later.

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

Man. I have a story in this book, which will be wrapped inside this masterpiece.

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

@ihussainwriter Thank you so much! Really appreciate the feedback and glad you enjoyed it.

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

Really pleased to be longlisted and published - again! - in the @LeicesterWrites short story competition. Big thanks to judges @AbiFAHynes, @ihussainwriter and @lauravcoleman,  and to the indefatigable @dahliabooks for organising.

[Iqbal Hussain #NorthernBoy @ihussainwriter]

Many congrats to everyone who entered this year’s @LeicesterWrites short story competition. My fellow judges @AbiFAHynes and @lauravcoleman and I had the impossible task of whittling down the final three. Somehow, we got there, but with much deliberation.

https://t.co/EWrVt0nseH

[Third Flatiron @TFlatiron]

Don’t be so judgy: See how it feels to be genetically engineered, in "A Kid with Six Arms Wants to Kick My Ass" #story by Edward Barnfield. “Offshoots: Humanity Twigged" #SFF #anthology from Third Flatiron. https://t.co/ZQ8rOiKzWp #books

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

Jazzed to have my story, “A Kid with Six Arms wants to Kick my Ass,” in Third Flatiron's new #SFF #anthology, "Offshoots: Humanity Twigged.” Fantastic to see it in print - thanks @TFlatiron and @julirew!

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

@thegulfblog I’m so sorry to read this, David. My deepest condolences to you and your family. He looks a lovely kid.

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

@NastasyaParker @nationalflashfd Thank you!

[Edward Barnfield @edbarnfield]

Splash. Pleased to have a story wash up in this year’s #flashflood.

Big thanks to the @nationalflashfd team for all their hard work.

[National Flash Fiction Day @nationalflashfd]

FlashFlood: 'Observing the Speed Limit in Liminal Space' by Edward Barnfield https://t.co/7DGLKFk5YS #nffd2024