Jude Higgins is a writer, writing tutor and events organiser and has stories published or forthcoming in the New Flash Fiction Review, Flash Frontier, FlashBack Fiction, The Blue Fifth Review, The …| Bath Flash Fiction Award
If you want last minute inspiration, on Saturday 27th September and are in or near Bath, Jude’s holding a FREE evening of readings with readings from around 15 flash fiction writers, in St Jame’s Wine Vaults gallery room in Bath, from 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm. Free snacks and raffle with tickets £1.00 each and good prizes of books and other goodies. Proceeds from the raffle are again being donated to Penny Brohn National Cancer Help Centre, based in Bristol. At the in person Flash Fiction Fe...| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Our 31st Award closes 4 weeks today, on October 5th. Our judge is Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, a previous first prize winner of Bath Flash Fiction Award (read her story, selected by the judge of that round, Matt Kendrick here). Double and triple entries are discounted. £1460 in prize money. Results out at the end of October. […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
If you weren’t able to come to the in-person Flash Fiction Festival this July and want a festival vibe, I’ve organised another online Great Flash Fiction Festival Series. This one is se…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Our 2026 Novella in Flash Award, judged by me, Jude Higgins, is now open for entries until 31st October 2025. Results out in January 2026. For novellas-in-flash in between 6000 and 18000 words. First prize: £300 plus publication with Ad Hoc Fiction and five free copies. Two runners-up, £100 each plus five free copies and […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
We’re delighted to publish an interview with our June first prize winner, Alison Powell, just before the end of the Early Bird Period for our next Award this Sunday 10th August. Read judge, Marie Gethins comments about her amazing first prize win and look for a great prompt by Alison to inspire you to write […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
We’re excited that the top three novellas-in-flash from the 2025 Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in -Flash Award are back from the printers, just ready to be brought to the Flash Fiction Festival weekend 18-20 July where they are going to be launched. It’s even more exciting that all three authors will be at the festival, to […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
We’re delighted that Kathryn Aldridge Morris, a first prize and highly commended writer in previous competitions, has agreed to be our 31st Award judge. Kathryn is a Bristol-based writer whose work has been widely published in anthologies and literary journals including Pithead Chapel, Aesthetica, The Four Faced Liar, Fractured Lit, Stanchion Magazine, Flash Frog, Fictive […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Two more novellas-in-flash published by Ad Hoc Fiction are now available for pre-order at a 25% discount until publication day on 6th July! The Lives of the Dead by Fiona McKay and Spin of the Triangle by Stephanie Carty were runners-up in the 2025 Bath Novella in Flash Award. Read more about the authors here […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
We love the results of the June Award coming three weeks before the Flash Fiction Festival where so many flash fiction fans gather to celebrate the short-short form. For this round we received 999 entries from the following 35 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Thank you very much to Marie Gethins, our 30th Award judge, for her dedication to the task and for her great selections and insightful comments. Her comments on the stories are below. All the stories are published on this website and will be included in our 10th anniversary anthology, along with longlisted and shortlisted stories […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
The City of Los Angeles is on Tactical Alert by Alison Powell This is our daughter’s first step. This is a preliminary step. This is her on her feet. This is proactive. This is freedom. This is working to tackle the issues. This is transitional. This is a special force. This is our daughter standing […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Psalm (After the Animals) by Joseph Randolph The dog’s been gone ten winters, bone-vanished, creek-gnawed, myth by now—and still she calls it, not namewise, but gutward, where grief nests in a pit of salt. Not loud. Just in the throat, just enough to reopen the place where language scabs. She descends the hillpath in hush […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Revelation, 1859 by Sharon Telfer All night the roof rattling like Old Nick himself’s dancing hobnailed cross the tiles, thunder crashing loud as doomsday, but us clammed safe in our beds, thanking…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
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Congratulations to the ten authors who have made the short list for the 2024 Novella-in-Flash Award selected by our judge, John Brantingham. (Final results in early January, 2024). Winners are yet …| Bath Flash Fiction Award
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Lots of great news for our short-short fiction press, Ad Hoc Fiction in 2023. Thanks to everyone worldwide who has bought any of our books. We love championing the short short form! First, for the third year running, Ad Hoc Fiction was a regional finalist (South West) in the small publisher category of the British Book Awards. | Bath Flash Fiction Award
We’re very pleased to be able to announce, before the end of 2023, the short list of ten novellas in flash, selected by our judge, John Brantingham for our 2024 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. I…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
We’re delighted to welcome award winning writer, editor and writing tutor, Marie Gethins as judge for our 30th Award opening shortly and closing on Sunday June 8th, 2025. Marie Gethins featu…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
I have selected the longlist for our NIF Award since the inaugural year, 2017, reading over the past nine years, several hundred novellas. We don’t receive a huge number of entries (compared …| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Matt Kendrick is a writer, editor and teacher based in the East Midlands, UK. His work has been featured in various journals and anthologies including Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, Cheap …| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Huge congratulations to the winners and highly commended writers in our 2024 Novella in Flash Award, selected by John Brantingham. Read their bios below. Ad Hoc Fiction is publishing, Hereafter the…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
