Thank you very much to our judges, Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold for selecting the five wonderful winning stories from our shortlist and for their general comments about the list and their insightful comments on the winners. Judges’ Overall Thoughts We were delighted by the quality and diversity of the stories shortlisted for BSSA 2025. […]| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Many congratulations to all the writers shortlisted in our 2025 Award. They reached the final seventeen out of 915 entries. Authors are listed alphabetically by surname. You can read our judges’ general report on all the stories here. All these brilliant stories will be published in paperback in our 2025 anthology later this year. We’re […]| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Huge congratulations to the winners and highly commended stories from our 2025 International Story Award. The bios and photos of all the authors are below and you can read the comments of our judges, Lucy Luck, Liv Bignold and the senior BSSA team in their report. The stories will be published in paperback in our […]| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Many congratulations to the seventeen writers shortlisted in our 2025 Award. Winners will be selected by our judges Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold by the end of this month. Best wishes to all!| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Many congratulations to the writers longlisted in our 2025 Award and big thanks to all those from around the world who entered. We receive many similar titles among our entries. If your story is on…| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Patrick Holloway won first prize with his wonderful short story,’The Language of Remembering’ in our 2023 Award, judged by Farhana Shaikh. We’re very excited to announce that his …| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
With two weeks to go until the £1750 prize fund 2025 Bath Short Story Award, judged by Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from C & W Literary Agency, closes at midnight on Monday March 31st, try these ten tiny tweaks to your story before you enter. 1. Find and remove all your favourite ‘tic’ filler […]| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Jude is a well-known face in the short story and flash fiction world. In addition to being a prolific writer, she is a tutor, runs online Flash Fiction Festival Days three times a year, is the founder of Bath Flash Fiction Awards, directs the small press, Ad Hoc Fiction and also Flash Fiction Festivals UK, […]| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Our 2025 Award closes on 31st March. In FOUR weeks. Maybe if you are entering, you are at the stage where you are thinking about a title. Maybe you began your short story with a title in mind? Mayb…| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
We’d like to welcome Sarah Hegarty, who’s joined our team of readers for the 2025 Bath Short Story Award. Sarah recently published her debut collection of short stories https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/poetry-short-stories-and-plays/magpie with Troubador and has agreed to answer a few questions. 1. I thoroughly enjoyed all the stories in this collection (and that isn’t always a given!). […]| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Karen Jones is a flash and short fiction writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and her story “Small Mercies” is included in Best…| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
The International Bath Short Story Award, is currently organised by Jude Higgins, Jane Riekemann and Alison Woodhouse. who are in 2025, joined by new team members, Tracy Fells and Karen Jones. Laun…| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
Huge congratulations to all our BSSA 2024 winners! Such wonderful and varied stories selected from a very strong field in the shortlist. You can read Sophie Haydock’s comments on the winners&…| THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD