About Us

Ad Hoc Fiction is an award winning small independent publisher specialising in short-short fiction since 2015. We are closely associated with the Bath Flash Fiction Award and produce anthologies of flash fiction from their thrice-yearly Awards, novellas-in-flash from their yearly Novella-in-Flash Award and anthologies of stories from participants at Flash Fiction Festival UK.

We also publish individual collections of flash fiction by local and international authors. In addition to the collections of short-short fiction, we also produce the yearly Bath Short Story Award anthology, and have recently launched a new craft book series on all aspects of writing flash fiction.

Buying Our Books

All our books are available for worldwide direct sale to the public in paper back from Amazon. They are also available in paperback for sale at UK events such as the Flash Fiction Festival, UK.

Sponsorships

In association with Bath Flash Fiction Award, we have sponsored Flash Fiction Festival UK since 2017 and fund the production of their yearly festival anthology.

Nominations and Awards

We have nominated authors for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfictions and several individual stories have been included in different editions of those anthologies.

Awards

In 2023 Season of Bright Sorrow the novella-in-flash by David Swann won Book of the Year in the International Rubery Award.
In 2020 Ad Hoc Fiction was shortlisted in the Most Innovative Publisher Category of the Saboteur Awards, and several Ad Hoc Fiction publications were shortlisted in other categories.
In 2019 Ad Hoc Fiction won the Best Publisher Award from the Creative Bath Awards.
In 2019 Finding A Way, the collection of flash fiction by Diane Simmons was short-listed in the Saboteur Awards
In 2019 The anthology Things Left and Found At The Side Of The Road was long listed in the Saboteur Awards, best anthology category.
In 2019, Both Homing the novella-in-flash by writer Johanna Robinson and the everrumble by Michelle Elvy were long-listed in the Guardian ‘Not The Booker Prize’.
In 2018, How To Make A Window Snake the novella-in-flash by Charmaine Wilkerson won the novella category of the Saboteur Awards
In 2018 and 2017, Ad Hoc Fiction was long listed in the Wild Card Category of the Saboteur Awards for its weekly free micro contest.

In recent years, many of our novellas and collections have been shortlisted in both the Saboteur Awards and he Rubery Award. Now You See Him by Tim Craig was long listed Edge Hill Prize. In the craft series, the guides Unlocking the Novella in Flash by Michael Loveday, Going Short by Nancy Stohlman and How to Haibun ed by Roberta Beary and others have won several awards

Ad Hoc Fiction has been a regional finalist for the Book Seller Small Press Awards in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

In 2019 Ad Hoc Fiction won the Best Publisher Award from the Creative Bath Awards and has been shortlisted for the Most Innovative Publisher category in the Saboteur Awards.