We’re delighted to share Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’s really interesting answers to Jude’s questions. Learn more about how she wrote her first prize winning story, selected by judge …| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Visiting Lenin’s Tomb by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris Tiyshe! No talking! The soldiers put fingers purple with cold to their cracked lips. You are here to pay homage! Da zdravstvuyet Leninizm! But…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Riptide by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris When the nurse returns, he’s in a wetsuit, an oxygen tank strapped to his back, clipboard in his hands, says he’s a mental health nurse and you think ‘Sure!’ as t…| 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. | Bath Flash Fiction Award
Our 31st BFFA Award closes at midnight tomorrow, Sunday 5th October. The Last Minute Club opens at midnight tonight for the last day and those entering reeive a virtual badge after they’ve entered . This will be the 23rd badge we’ve issued (We began the game in 2018). Today’s the day you can guess the […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
I hosted a free evening of flash fiction readings in Bath last Saturay 27th September and here is a picture of those reading/ Writers travelled from many different parts of the UK to be there. From…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Thanks to everyone from around the world who has already entered our 31st Award. Deadline this coming Sunday. October 5th. You may have a tweakable story in your archive that could still flower amazingly like this sunflower and be ready to submit in time. Why not consider changing the title? I found a few stories […]| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Our 31st Award, judged this time by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris from the UK,closes on Sunday 5th October at midnight GMT. For stories up to 300 words. Prze fund of £1460. 1 entry £9.00, two entries £15…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
Just three weeks until our 31st Award closes on October 5thl .Thank you to everyone who has entered so far. We’re getting pretty busy. To remind you, the prize fund is £1460. All 50 longliste…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
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
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 whos…| Bath Flash Fiction Award
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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
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
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
