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Interview with Johanna Robinson, 1st prize winner, BFFA October, 2020 2nd December 2020
We're delighted to share an interview with Johanna Robinson, who won first prize in the October 2020 round, which was judged by Nod Ghosh. The story plus two other listed stories of Johanna's is included with all the other winners and longlisted writers who agreed to publication in Restore to Factory Settings Bath Flash Fiction […]
Nominations: Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions 2021 30th November 2020
It's that time of year again! As always, we are nominating from our winners in the Bath Flash Award over the year - fictions selected by our judges Santino Prinzi, Mary Jane Holmes and Nod Ghosh. We are allowed to nominate six stories for the Pushcart Prize and five for Best Small Fictions. Many congratulations […]
Coming soon! Restore to Factory Settings, Bath Flash Fiction Vol. 5 27th November 2020
We're thrilled to reveal the cover of the fifth anthology from Bath Flash Fiction Award published by Ad Hoc Fiction. The title, Restore to Factory Settings, is from a story by UK writer, J A Keogh and is the last story printed in the book. We thank him very much for the inspiration. Previously, our […]
Launch party for our seven new Novellas-in-Flash! 3rd November 2020
Something fun and interesting to look forward to in the flash fiction world! On Saturday evening, 28th November, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm London time we're holding a Zoom launch party and readings hosted by Jude Higgins for the seven novellas-in-flash which were successful in the 2020 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award judged by Michael Loveday. To […]
Review of Going Short, by Nancy Stohlman by Cath Barton 2nd November 2020
Thank you very much to Cath Barton for this excellent review of Going Short - An invitation to flash fiction by Nancy Stohlman which was published last month by our short-short press, Ad Hoc Fiction and is available for sale from Ad Hoc Fiction, Amazon in print and digital and Kobo. Signed copies are also […]
Q & A with Charmaine Wilkerson, Award judge February, 2021. 1st November 2020
Charmaine Wilkerson is an American writer who has lived in the Caribbean and is based in Italy. Her award-winning flash fiction can be found in the Best Microfiction anthologies from 2020 and 2019 and other anthologies and magazines, including 100-Word Story, Bending Genres, Fiction Southeast, FlashBack Fiction, Litro, Reflex Fiction, Spelk and elsewhere. Her story […]
16th Award Round Up, October 2020 31st October 2020
A big thank you to everyone who entered our 16th Award judged by Nod Ghosh from New Zealand. Once more we received a huge number of entries, 1457 from 37 different countries listed here: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, […]
Nod Ghosh’s Judge’s report October 2020 31st October 2020
I would like to thank Jude Higgins and the team at BFFA for inviting me to judge this sixteenth award. I'd also like to acknowledge the hard work early readers do, presenting independent judges with fifty long listed stories within a tight timeframe. It has been a pleasure reading these pieces. The quality indicates how […]
Johanna Robinson Oct 2020 First Prize 31st October 2020
Blessings, 1849 by Johanna Robinson You remember how you counted your steps as you planted: one step, one potato. The years God gave you babies, the steps were smaller with the weight in your belly, on your back. The years He took them away before you could count a single breath, the steps were smaller […]
Tara Isabel Zambrano Oct 2020 Second Prize 31st October 2020
Mother, Before by Tara Isabel Zambrano Before, my mother settled my twin sister and me every morning in a neighbor’s front yard and boarded a bus to a local bottling plant, in her powder blue uniform, her hair pulled back so hard her veins showed. We read comics with missing pages, stripped our dolls to […]