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Top Tips For Writing A Novella-in-Flash by Michael Loveday, 2020 Novella judge 16th July 2019
Michael Loveday judged our 2019 Novella in Flash Award and he is pictured here at a panel about this exciting form at the recent Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol, with from left to right, Charmaine Wilkerson, winner of the inaugural Award in 2017, with How To Make A Window Snake, which later won the 2018 […]
Interview with Gaynor Jones, first-prize winner, June 2019 Award 12th July 2019
We're very pleased to interview Gaynor Jones following her win in the June Award judged by Christopher Allen It's fascinating to hear Gaynor's methods of writing, how she can produce marvellous pieces like 'Cleft' in the spaces she finds in day to day life. After her win, we saw her tweet that she had entered […]
Award Round-up June 2019 10th July 2019
Thank you to everyone from around the world who entered the June Award. Our fourth 'Last Minute Club' badge was collected as usual by a large number of intrepid entrants and we ended up with 1062 entries this time. We really do appreciate you all so much for entering the Award. Thirty-six countries were represented. […]
Out Now! ‘Birds With Horse Hearts’, ‘Homing’ and ‘The Roster’ – three winning novellas-in-flash 3rd July 2019
We launched three of the winning novellas-in-flash at the Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol 28th-30th June. Birds with Horse Hearts by Eleanor Walsh Homing By Johanna Robinson and The Roster by Debra A Daniel. You can now buy all these marvellous novellas in paperback from the Ad Hoc Fiction Bookshop. Just click on the book […]
Nancy Stohlman Flash Fiction Award Judge July 2019 – October 2019 2nd July 2019
Nancy Stohlman is the author of Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (finalist for a Colorado Book Award), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, the flash novels The Monster Opera and Searching for Suzi, and three anthologies of flash fiction including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape She is the creator and curator of The Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series, the creator of […]
Judge’s Report 30th June 2019
Choosing 20 stories for the shortlist has been a challenge. My criteria for inclusion, apart from solid and compressed writing, were poignancy and heart. Does this narrative capture the depth of a moment in a way that feels honest and new? Is this narrative emotionally affecting? Does this story have something to say, something the […]
Gaynor Jones June 2019 First Prize 30th June 2019
Cleft by Gaynor Jones noun a fissure or split indentation in the middle of a person’s chin a deep division Cleft. As belonging to me, my father, his father before him, their fathers before them. Runs way back in our men, as my father used to tell me while he shaved. Boy, you could […]
Anita Arlov June 2019 Second Prize 30th June 2019
A God And His Famous Digging Stick Dug This by Anita Arlov Is this the pool? Prie ȁ dieu I cup water. Minnows explode: a mute firework. My fingers glow pond-green, trailing elodia densa. Boy fingers explored my body that day; two squid-shaped clouds bombing a Frisbee sky. Maori fish for eels here. The stream’s […]
Stephanie Hutton June 2019 Third Prize 30th June 2019
Cosmina Counts by Stephanie Hutton Cosmina must measure the room. In this moment, it is all that matters. From her narrow bed, she can just about stretch out her legs before reaching a wall. There’s no ruler to measure the room precisely. Cosmina recalls laughing at her grandmother back in Romania who measured things the […]
Hilary Dean June 2019 Commended 30th June 2019
Arts & Crafts by Hilary Dean Before I was allowed back into Group, I had to apologize to Carl and sign a form that listed all of my personality defects. The form said the whole thing had been my fault. That I had acted out with no provocation and that I was a danger to […]