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Our Books

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
The Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2018
Alligators at Night : Meg Pokrass
In the Debris Field : Three Novellas-In-Flash
The Lobsters Run Free : Bath Flash Fiction Volume Two
Flash Fiction Festival One
How to Make a Window Snake : Three Novellas-In-Flash
To Carry Her Home : Bath Flash Fiction Volume One

Bath Flash Award

Round- Up, 2021 Novella in Flash Award 12th April 2021
Thank you to all those who entered our fifth yearly Novella-in-Flash Award. We received just over one hundred entries from around the world, about the same number as last year. It’s a difficult genre to write in, and we very much appreciated the range and variety within the entries both in style, setting and subject […]
Novella-in-flash 2021, shortlist 12th April 2021
Congratulations to all our shortlisted writers. As well as the 2021 winners and highly commended, Ad Hoc Fiction will be publishing these five wonderful novellas-in-flash by the authors below. Kipris by Michelle Christophorou Michelle Christophorou was born in Lancashire, UK to a Liverpudlian mother and Greek-Cypriot father. Her stories have won and been placed in […]
Novella-in-Flash 2021 Judge’s report, Michelle Elvy 12th April 2021
What a very fine set of flash novellas! And what a daunting task – perhaps the most difficult reading I’ve done. A huge congratulations to every writer who completed a novella-in-flash and submitted, and then a further round of applause to the writers whose work is in the Long List. Wow. Many thanks also to […]
Novella-in-Flash 2021, Winners 12th April 2021
Many congratulations to the winners in our 5th yearly Novella-in-Flash Award. Do read our judge Michelle Elvy’s excellent report and comments on these fantastic novellas in flash. All of them will be published by Ad Hoc Fiction and we’re privileged to add them to the Ad Hoc novella-in-flash series. First Prize Season of Bright Sorrow […]
Novella-in-flash 2021 Short List 31st March 2021
Many congratulations to all the authors who sdfd selected for our Award shortlist. Novella-in-Flash 2021 Award ShortList Title Author A Family Of Great Falls Debra Daniel Hairy On The Inside Tracy Fells Kipris Michelle Christophorou One For The River Tom O’Brien Season Of Bright Sorrow David Swann Small Things Hannah Sutherland The Death And Life […]
Saboteur Awards 2021. Cast Your Votes! 30th March 2021
The Saboteur Awards 2021 are open now for voting until April 7th. During the late summer and Autumn of 2020, our tiny short-short fiction press (just two people running it), Ad Hoc Fiction. published eleven more books and if you have read and enjoyed any that fit into the Saboteur categories, the authors, I am […]
Q & A with Geeta Sanker, first prize winner, Feb. 2021 8th March 2021
We’re delighted to post this Q & A with Geeta, who won the 17th Bath Flash Fiction Award, judged by Charmaine Wilkerson. Charmaine’s comments about ‘Let Them Eat First‘ are posted in her judge’s report. We’re always interested in what inspires a story, whether it is memory, meetings with others, the written or spoken word, […]
Novella-in-Flash 2021 Award Long List 3rd March 2021
Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered. Novella-in-Flash 2021 Award Long List Title Author A Family Of Great Falls Debra Daniel A Further Education Steven John A Good Match Diane Simmons Blue Jeanette Sheppard Brotherhood Fatherhood Marianne Rogoff Couplet Victoria Richards Fishing Lines […]
Interview with K M Elkes, Judge, 18th Award 28th February 2021
K.M. Elkes is based in the West Country, UK. His flash fiction collection All That Is Between Us (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2019) was shortlisted for a 2020 Saboteur Award. He is a previous winner of the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and the Fish Publishing Flash Prize, as well as being published in more than 40 […]
17th Bath Flash Fiction Award Round Up 27th February 2021
Thanks very much to everyone who entered the 17th Round of Bath Flash Fiction Award. We very much appreciate your support for the Award. We received 1447 entries (almost exactly the same number as in the previous round). It is a great privilege to organise an Award that attracts so many writers from all around […]