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Bath Flash Award

Interview with K M Elkes, June 2018 Flash Fiction First Prize 10th August 2018
Read KM Elkes first prize winning story, 'Extremities' selected by David Gaffney in the June round of the Award for an example of great flash fiction. Ken's a writing tutor as well as a writer, and he ran an excellent workshop on 'voice', an aspect of writing he refers in this interview, at the recent […]
Interview with Jack Remiel Cottrell — Runner-up, Novella-in-Flash Award, 2018 8th August 2018
Jack Remiel Cottrell is one of two runners-up chosen in the 2018 Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash award judged by Meg Pokrass Here he describes how his novella 'Latter Day Saints', published in our trio of winning novellas-in-flash In the Debris Field emerged from one single line which sparked his imagination and how he gets inspired […]
Interview with Victoria Melekian, runner-up, Novella-in-Flash Award, 2018 28th July 2018
Victoria Melekian's novella-in-flash A Slow Boat to Finland was a runner-up in the 2018 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award judged by Meg Pokrass. Meg said of the novella, "We are not sure how a bereaved mother will recover after losing her toddler daughter in a car accident. Especially when the little girl's heart saves another child. The […]
New Collection by Meg Pokrass 6th July 2018
We're thrilled that Ad Hoc Fiction has published Meg Pokrass's new collection, Alligators at Night, the first book of hers published in the UK. Acclaimed US author Stuart Dybek says of her new collection: The nuanced tonal complexity, which can go from the whimisical to a darker irony in the turn of a phrase, has […]
Interview with Nuala O’Connor Flash Fiction Award Judge July 2018 – October 2018 1st July 2018
Nuala O’Connor lives in Galway, Ireland. Her fifth short story collection Joyride to Jupiter was published by New Island in 2017; her story ‘Consolata’ from that collection was shortlisted for Short Story of the Year at the 2017 Irish Book Awards. Nuala’s fourth novel, Becoming Belle, is published in 2018. Nuala has won many flash […]
Award Round Up June 2018 29th June 2018
It's always exciting when we reach the end of the latest Award – and this one was no exception. Nine hundred and three entries from twenty-nine different countries. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, […]
June 2018 Judge’s Report David Gaffney 29th June 2018
First of all, I'd like to say a big thank you to Jude and her team for asking me to be the judge of this round of the Bath Flash Fiction Award. I judge a lot of flash fiction competitions, and I used to write a lot of flash fiction too (not so much now […]
KM Elkes June 2018 First Prize 29th June 2018
Extremities by KM Elkes The way Bobby told it, one minute he was working the chainsaw and the next he was on the forest floor, wondering why there was nothing on the end of his arm. The rest of the crew reckoned his hand got spun into a ravine. Nobody wanted to waste time searching […]
Conor Houghton June 2018 Second Prize 29th June 2018
The Undertakers’ Jolly by Conor Houghton On the first weekend of every May, just as the whitethorn makes the hedgerows so beautiful that it is an agony to know you could never count every petal, all the undertakers in Limerick go on their annual trip. They don’t go far, usually Lahinch, once as far as […]
Tim Craig June 2018 Third Prize 29th June 2018
Northern Lights by Tim Craig After an hour or so, I decided to ask him about the tooth. It was dangling from the sun visor on a piece of cotton, and it had a gold filling that occasionally glinted as we passed under the lights. The lorry driver reached up and flicked it with his […]