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  • The Tony Bone Stories : Al Kratz
  • A Family of Great Falls : Debra A. Daniel
  • Things I Can’t Tell Amma : Sudha Balagopal
  • The Evolution of Birds : Sara Hills
  • Inside Fictional Minds : Dr Stephanie Carty
  • the other side of better : Michelle Elvy
  • Echoes in a Hollow Space : Ruth Skrine
  • The Yet Unknowing World : Fiona J. Mackintosh
  • Gaps in the Light : Iona Winter
  • Restore to Factory Settings : Bath Flash Fiction Volume Five
  • The Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2020
  • Something Lost : Louise Watts
  • When It’s Not Called Making Love : Karen Jones
  • Stormbred : Eleanor Walsh
  • The House on the Corner : Alison Woodhouse
  • if there is no shelter : Tracey Slaughter
  • Sugar Mountain : Erica Plouffe Lazure
  • Don’t Tell the Bees : Mary-Jane Holmes
  • Going Short: An invitation to Flash Fiction
  • This Alone Could Save Us : Santino Prinzi
  • With One Eye on the Cows : Bath Flash Fiction Volume Four
  • Inland Empire Afternoon : John Brantingham
  • The Way of the Wind : Francine Witte
  • Straight Down The Road : Dan Crawley
  • The Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2019
  • Flash Fiction Festival Three
  • The Roster : Debra A. Daniel
  • Homing : Johanna Robinson
  • Birds with Horse Hearts : Eleanor Walsh
  • All That Is Between Us : K.M. Elkes
  • the everrumble : Michelle Elvy
  • Finding a Way : Diane Simmons
  • Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road : Bath Flash Fiction Volume Three
  • Flash Fiction Festival Two

RSS Bath Flash Award

  • Interview with Sharon Telfer, 19th Award Judge 1st July 2021
    We’re delighted that writer and editor, Sharon Telfer is going to judge our 19th Bath Flash Fiction Award, which is open July 1st and closes October 9th. Sharon, has some brilliant and encouraging flash fiction writing advice here, as well as news about her forthcoming collection from Reflex Fiction, The Map Waits. Do read the […]
  • Round-Up, 18th Award. 30th June 2021
    Thank you to everyone who entered our 18th International Flash Fiction Award, the earlybirds, those in the middle period and the last minute writers. We received 1268 entries from 44 different countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, […]
  • Judge’s report, 18th Award, by K.M. Elkes 30th June 2021
    General Comments Judging a story competition with a high standard of writing is a whole, twist-filled narrative in itself. There are beautiful moments of discovery, difficult decisions, inner wranglings, a love story or two, sadness over loss, and the inevitable questions, mysteries, and ambiguities. Working your way from longlist to shortlist, you encounter risky, raw […]
  • Dara Yen Elerath June 2021 First Prize 30th June 2021
    The Button Wife by Dara Elerath The button wife bends her body across the bed, but the cloth husband is not interested in touching her. Instead, he phones the burlap wife. He likes the way her coarse skin brushes against his body. At night, the button wife cries, recalling how her husband used to clutch […]
  • Emma Phillips June 2021 Second Prize 30th June 2021
    Strong Like Carp by Emma Phillips Aoi-chan was strong like a carp. Even when the bombs fell, she hardly flinched, although her best friend Megumi said she laid upon her futon each night and cried the Edo river. Megumi did not have fighting spirit. Aoi was like the Koi she used to feed before the […]
  • Leonie Rowland June 2021 Third Prize 30th June 2021
    Reasons You Married a Woman Called Rose by Leonie Rowland Please match the following numbers with the correct letter* a. The love story b. The proverb c. The theories d. The joke e. The myth f. The whole 1. Because when you were born, there were tides in the kitchen: boiling water gushing over abandoned […]
  • Debra A Daniel June 2021 Commended 30th June 2021
    Across The Street The Old Man Clears Out His House by Debra A Daniel Late every afternoon, Mr. Anderson unloads a rusty wheelbarrow full of giveaways onto the driveway’s edge, displaying each item as if designing a department store window. Duck decoys. National Geographic magazines. Embroidered Christmas stockings. One day kitchen utensils. Cast iron skillet. […]
  • Catherine Deery June 2021 Commended 30th June 2021
    Where are the Instructions for the Panasonic Full HD 3D Home Theatre Projector? by Catherine Deery When you said we didn’t have a future together because we couldn’t watch the same tv shows I thought is was the saddest and truest thing you’d ever told me — maybe the only true thing — even though […]
  • Sara Hills talks about her new collection, The Evolution of Birds 28th June 2021
    We’re delighted to share an interview below with hugely-talented writer Sara Hills, whose debut flash fiction collection The Evolution of Birds is now available to buy on pre-order at a 25% discount from Ad Hoc Fiction until publication day on 9th July. Jude Higgins is hosting a Zoom launch for Sara’s new book on Saturday […]
  • June 2021 Short List 24th June 2021
    Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list. Eighteenth Bath Flash Fiction Award Short List TITLE AUTHOR Across The Street The Old Man Clears Out His House Debra A Daniel Big Men in Tiny Pants Lucy Lasasso Cold cases Sophie Goldsworthy Fine Lines Melissa Bowers For Love MaxieJane Frazier Genetic Astigmatism […]

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