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Bath Flash Award

Interview with Luke Whisnant Novella-in-Flash 2018 Winner 9th April 2018
It’s so interesting to see how Luke Whisnant, first prize winner in our 2018 Award created his novella-in-flash. His method has to be encouraging to other writers when he suggests how flexible this form is and that you can ‘find’ a novella-in-flash out of flash fictions you have already written. We’re interested that language, more […]
Ad Hoc Fiction Three Years Old this April Come to Our Ad Hoc Birthday Event! 4th April 2018
We’re having a birthday evening of readings 4th May, 7.30-9.30 pm at St James Wine Vaults, Bath... free entry, free wine and free cake. About nine of our winners, including three of our mulit-winners, are reading their fictions. Do come and support them. More details about this on our events page. If you don’t already […]
Michael Loveday Novella-in-Flash 2019 Judge 28th March 2018
Michael Loveday's flash fiction novella Three Men on the Edge, is published by V. Press in summer 2018, and his poetry pamphlet He Said / She Said by HappenStance Press (2011). His writing has appeared in The Spectator; Flash: the International Short-Short Story Magazine; Funny Bone: Flashing for Comic Relief; and the National Flash Fiction […]
Interview with Molia Dumbleton February 2018 Flash Fiction Third Prize 27th March 2018
Molia Dumbleton won third prize with 'Why Shit is Still Like This Around Here and Probably Always Will Be' Our judge Tara L. Masih said it was ‘a precise and perfect’ micro and we agree. Kathy Fish, who judged our February 2017 Bath Flash Fiction Award is renowned for sparking stories that get published and […]
Novella-in-Flash 2018 About the Winners 25th March 2018
Luke Whisnant Winner In the Debris Field Luke Whisnant's fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have been published in over 50 different journals and anthologies in the USA, the UK, France, and Portugal. He is the author of four books: two poetry chapbooks, Street and Above Floodstage; the story collection Down in the Flood; and a novel, […]
Interview with Lee Nash February 2018 Flash Fiction Second Prize 22nd March 2018
Our judge Tara L Masih, was struck by the tight writing style of ‘When the rubber hits the road’ by Lee Nash and the way so much is covered. Many decades are traversed in the one long paragraph and like Tara, we love the way the elements shape the piece, and show how the events […]
Novella-in-Flash 2018 Award Round Up by Jude Higgins 19th March 2018
Thank you very much to everyone who entered our second novella in flash fiction award. We received 111 entries, a few more than last year from fourteen different countries. The twenty six writers on the long list represent Austria, Australia, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Switzerland the UK and the US. Our thanks also go to our […]
Novella-in-Flash 2018 Award Winners and Judge’s Report by Meg Pokrass 19th March 2018
The Novella-in-Flash Fiction is one of my favorite forms in the genre and it is truly exciting that more flash fiction writers are experimenting with it. Thank you to Bath Flash Fiction for creating this opportunity and providing the impetus. This is my second year of judging the Award and it’s been an honor to […]
Novella-in-Flash 2018 Award Short List 12th March 2018
Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list. Novella-in-Flash 2018 Award Short List Title Author Apprehension Marianne Rogoff A Slow Boat To Finland Victoria Melekian For Those About To Rock Al Kratz In The Debris Field Luke Whisnant Latter Day Saints Jack Cottrell Luminance Iona Winter Sam And Lydia Christie Wilson […]
Interview with Jo Gatford February 2018 Flash Fiction First Prize 8th March 2018
Jo tells us how she moved from writing her prize winning story in her head while driving, repeating the words out loud and then shaping the story on the page later. A busy writer, with all sorts of projects on the go, she is drafting a second novel with an interesting theme about survival in […]