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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

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. To preserve judging anonymity, author names are yet to be announced. We understand finding you have made the long list is exciting news, so while we are happy for authors to share that they are on […]
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 […]
Charmaine Wilkerson – Judge’s report February 2021 27th February 2021
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Bath Flash Fiction Award, in part, because I published my very first piece of flash fiction in an anthology produced through this series. It was an honour to serve as an independent judge for the seventeenth award and, really, a joy to read for this. […]
Geeta Sanker Feb 2021 First Prize 27th February 2021
Let Them Eat First by Geeta Sanker I’m in the short queue. The slow queue. The women’s queue. Along with the few remaining girls, and Noor to whom I cling as if she were my mother. Noor was a mother; she might still be one. For now, she has my trembling arms around her waist […]
K.S. Lokensgard Feb 2021 Second Prize 27th February 2021
Car Trouble, Spartanburg, August 2002 by K.S. Lokensgard There on the asphalt, in the sweat-sticky shade of the car hood, cicadas grinding, I ask her to try it again. The engine trips over itself, struggling up and up before guttering out, and that was the last idea I had. “Thea,” I say. Her name on […]
Tim Craig Feb 2021 Third Prize 27th February 2021
Now You See Him by Tim Craig My father could slip through keyholes, and similar small openings. Sure, other kids’ Dads could do some impressive things, like fix car engines, build sheds or start campfires with a piece of broken glass. But none of them could disappear without trace from a room where an argument […]
Sara Hills Feb 2021 Commended 27th February 2021
Always Down a Dirt Road, I’m Walking by Sara Hills my two daughters with me. There are trees to the right of us and a field on our left. The field is cropped, oven-crisped at midday. It’s hot. Bright. Then it isn’t. A car whizzes past in a pall of dust, and I pull my […]
Regan Puckett Feb 2021 Commended 27th February 2021
1902 by Regan Puckett When their silk skins shrivel and wither, the corn stalks are ready to be stripped, so you’re sent into the field with the metal bucket they bathed your brother in before your father stowed it in the barn and buried your brother in a hole in the yard, a barren spot […]
February 2021 Short List 24th February 2021
Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list and huge thanks to all who entered. Seventeenth Bath Flash Fiction Award Short List Title Author 1902 Regan Puckett Always Down a Dirt Road, I’m Walking Sara Hills Astronomy for Beginners Sam Payne Car Trouble Spartanburg, August 2002 K.S. Lokensgard Closed captions at […]