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Our Books

  • Small Things : Hannah Sutherland
  • The Death and Life of Mrs Parker : Jupiter Jones
  • Hairy on the Inside : Tracy Fells
  • 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

RSS Bath Flash Award

  • Double book launch for novellas-in-flash by Tracy Fells and Jupiter Jones 31st August 2021
    Come to this joint launch on Zoom, hosted by Jude Higgins on Wednesday 15th September 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm BST of two excellent and innovative novellas in flash, Hairy on The Inside by Tracy Fells and TThe Death And Life Of Mrs Parker by Jupiter Jones. At the launch they’ll talk more about their […]
  • Interview with Dara Yen Elerath, first prize winner in our 18th Award 13th August 2021
    This Sunday, 15th August is the last day to buy discounted entries for our 19th Award to be submitted by the deadline of 10th October. To get some inspiration for your own writing, read what poet, prose writer and artist, Dara Yen Elerath has to say about her first prize winning story The Button Wife, […]
  • Interview with Michelle Elvy about her hybrid collection, the other side of better 8th August 2021
    Ad Hoc Fiction, our short short fiction press, published the other side of better, by Michelle Elvy in June this year, exactly two years after publishing her innovative small novel in small forms, the everrumble, launched at the Flash Fiction Festival, held in Bristol in 2019. This new book is equally innovative, traversing the line […]
  • Triple Novella-in-Flash Launch! 2nd August 2021
    We’re delighted to host a joint launch on Zoom of the three novellas-in-flash by North American writers, recently published or about to be published by by Ad Hoc Fiction Hope you can come on Saturday,14th August, 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm BST to hear about three very different examples of the form and listen to […]
  • 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 […]

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