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Ad Hoc Fiction author, Diane Simmons, on Radio Bristol 16th November 2018
We are delighted that our publisher, Ad Hoc Fiction is publishing Diane Simmons' collection, Finding A Way, fifty one linked flash fictions which show one family's grieving journey over the three years following a devastating loss. Diane is widely published in anthologies and magazines and has been successful in many writing competitions. She is a […]
Meg Pokrass: Writing From the Inside Out 9th November 2018
Writer, writing tutor and editor Meg Pokrass is well-known for her amazingly inventive prompts. And she uses them herself in her own writing. This is what she says about it -- When people ask me: how did you do that? How did you incorporate that prompt idea? (as though it is a magic trick) this […]
Interview with Vanessa Gebbie Flash Fiction Award Judge November 2018 – February 2019 1st November 2018
Vanessa has won multiple awards for both prose and poetry, including a Bridport Prize and the Troubadour. Her flash publications include Ed’s Wife and Other Creatures (Liquorice Fish Books) and the weird/irreal collection Nothing to Worry About (Flash: The International Short Short Story Press at Chester University) as well as many individual publications online and […]
Award Round Up October 2018 30th October 2018
This was our tenth award and we thank everyone who entered. Nine hundred and thirty four fictions from thirty-two different countries: Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, […]
October 2018 Judge’s Report Nuala O’Connor 30th October 2018
It’s always a privilege to judge a literary competition, as judge you’re seeing what’s white hot, what writers are writing about now and the way they’re writing about those things. If the long list is representative, popular occupations in 2018 include predatory stepfathers, lost love, childhood traumas, and more benign childhood memories featuring, particularly, the […]
Fiona J. Mackintosh October 2018 First Prize 30th October 2018
Siren by Fiona J. Mackintosh In the wet slap of the haar, the lassies slit the herring mouth to tail and pack them into briny barrels. I see her head move among the rest, brown curls escaping from her shawl. She has the juice of silver fishes in her veins - it’s in the raised […]
Zahid Gamieldien October 2018 Second Prize 30th October 2018
The Coast by Zahid Gamieldien Bita, drenched, shaking—her bones are shortbreads soaked in mother’s milk, her knuckles white, red, gripping, numb. She’s crouched against the gunwale of a boat that’s not much more than a skiff. A wave whumps her crown, skittles those on deck. Recovering, they shuffle crab-like in their orange vests and latch […]
Emma Neale October 2018 Third Prize 30th October 2018
The Local Pool by Emma Neale Turn a corner, into air tangy with chlorine. The smell removes memory’s stopper and an anxious genie swims out. What about the turquoise of a small town pool? What about concrete, dark with Rorschach marks that wet bodies left behind after boys egged on and watched? Police, phoned by […]
Simon Cowdroy October 2018 Commended 30th October 2018
Particularly Complicated When The Snakes Show Up by Simon Cowdroy The mice slow them down. During dry spells, I never spot the tiger or brown snakes as they slide away, slaloming through the sinewy grass of the paddock, keen to see the back of me. Give us heavy spring rains, like this year, and the […]
Rosie Garland October 2018 Commended 30th October 2018
How can a woman sleep when the Master is in pain? by Rosie Garland In her room beneath the eaves, she listens. Laughter twists up the screw of the back stairs. The Master struggles to be heard above his wife’s shrill squeal. She knows how men are trapped in marriages; how women entice and steal […]