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Congrats to everyone Longlisted In our 34th Award.There’s been a delay but our very patient judge now has the list. Final results out mid/November this time www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/10/3567...

Excited that my story has made the longlist! 🎉🥰 I always love reading the brilliant titles and imagining the brilliant stories 😍

So excited to see my story on this longlist! Congratulations to everyone on the list 🍾🎉💐

All the emails confirming a place on the longlist have been sent out now so check nothing in Spam. If you think your title is longlisted and haven’t received an email, contact us. There were several stories with the same title among the entries this time.

Thank you to @fictivedream.bsky.social for publishing my apocalyptic little story! With cats

Thank you everyone who entered our 34th Award. We’re very busy now & will be back in a couple of weeks with the longlist! Bathflashfictionaward.com

The final half- an-hour has to have Miss Piggy cheering you on! Thanks everyone and good luck Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Time is running out to enter this round of BFFA. Around 4 and a half hours to go last minuters! £1000 top prize. Closes midnight GMT tonight Sunday 4th Oct. Results out end of October Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Just under 12 hours to go till our 34th Award closes at midnight GMT today 4th October. Busy, busy with last min entries (Thankyou) £1000 top prize. Results out by end Oct. Enter at bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Final day to enter our 34th Award! £1460 in prizes Judge @jmgatford.bsky.social Double and triple entries reduced. Up to 300 words. Thankyou to all the last minuters! Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

The Bath Flash Fiction Award for stories up to 300 words is accepting entries until 4th October. All the details are here → https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/ #WritingCommunity #ShortStory #AmWriting #TCS @bathflashaward.bsky.social

Entering BFFA before deadline 5th Oct ? Check out Karen’s post for tips on entering flash contests!

Fabulous interview with Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social — so many tips on submitting flash, particularly drawing on her experience as anthology editor for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social & her experience writing novellas-in-flash! Fab questions by Catherine Ogston!

The Orionids meteor shower begins tonight. Around midnight UK. A good time, perhaps, to be inspired to send a last minute entry to our 34th Award. Deadline for flash entries up to 300 words, Sunday Oct 4th £1000 first prize. Results out fast bathflashfictionawardawatd.com/enter

With 4 days to go to our 34th Award deadline, the first writer to name the title of the missing anthology &what Is on the cover wins a free entry to BFFA. Reply here www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/09/bffa...

One week and one day till our 34th Award ends on Sunday Oct 4th at midnight GMT. £1460 prize fund. Double and triple entries reduced. Results out by end of Oct. Judge award winning writer & teacher @jmgatford.bsky.social Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Book for The Great Festival Flash Off! A trio of online days, 24th Oct, 28th Nov, 9th Jan 11.00 am to 6.3O pm London Time. Each day,two 60 min workshops & one 90 min workshop, flash fiction readings, a mini writing contest with prizes, yoga for writers. £35 each. £90 for 3. Flashfictionfestival.com

I'm thrilled by and grateful for this fabulous review of Ancestral Virgins Part One from book blogger @TBHONEST_UK "Ancestral Virgins is brilliant. It draws you in from the very first page and has you hooked." 🙌🙌🙌 tbhonest.co.uk/2026/09/20/a...

What? Is it this time already? The deadline for the latest £1400 prize fund BFFA is coming round again Closes Sun 4th Oct. Just under TWO weeks. For up to 300 word micros. All 50 longlisted writers are offered publication in our 2026 anthology. Results end Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

"Your boyfriend begs you to go back to the car. It isn’t safe. You’re too exposed. What about wildfires?" Do read this stunning piece by @tomljanovic.bsky.social which I picked as my winner for the @welkinpress.bsky.social Earth Prize. A true gem!

"I know you want me to sing that here, in the translucent shell of my body, live the soft sighs of angels." Do read this beautifully lyrical marvel from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social picked by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social as the winner of the @welkinpress.bsky.social Body Prize.

"As everyone followed their light to the woods, I concertinaed my constricting womb, tried to hold in our baby." Do read this speculative micro from Jo Withers picked by @mynachang.bsky.social as the winner of the @welkinpress.bsky.social Firefly Prize.

FYI, 10% discount on my short-fiction editing services for the rest of August. 🙂 All the details here: prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/the-editor...

"And you, champagne-haired in the new sunlight, weltered in the coincidence of meeting in a city neither of us belonged to" A beautiful and resonant micro from Amy Luxton to round off the Welkin Genre Prize 2026. Do give it a read!

Matt is a brilliant editor and his prices are SO reasonable.

Congratulations to the Winners of the When the Title of The Story Is the Story festival contest www.flashfictionfestival.com/festival-coa...

Congratulations to the winners of the festivalPokrass prize who wrote to prompt from @megpokrass.bsky.social Meg judged the prize which was announced at the festival. You can read their wonderful stories here www.flashfictionfestival.com/pokrass-priz...

Too cloudy here for the eclipse but my @bathflashaward.bsky.social anthology arrived and last week my copies of the Fish anthology were delivered. 🌥️🐟🗺️

Thank you everyone who donated prizes & bought tickets at the festival raffle. There’s a photo gallery from the festival on this oat too. Such happy times! www.flashfictionfestival.com/news/

Delighted with myl Flash Fiction Festival book haul featuring @bathflashaward.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @alimcg.bsky.social @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social @scooterwriter.bsky.social @vanessageb.bsky.social and a few more 😊

So, so excited to be judging the next @bathflashaward.bsky.social (deadline 4 Oct). I want to read your flashes! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/08/q-a-...

👇 🎨 ➕ ⚡️ w/ 🧨 recommendations from @stillsquirrel.bsky.social = 😍

The Flash Fiction Anthology Vol eight and the BFFA anthology Vol 10, How to Fold a World Map back from the printers and ready to go to the festival where they’ll be launched with readings & given to contributors attending. We’re posting off the others

And here are the 3 winning novellas in flash from the 2026 Bath NIF awards back from the printers, looking gorgeous and ready to go the the flash fiction festival, two weeks today! You can buy from Amazon. Check out AdHocFiction.com for links worldwide

🎂 Today's the 4th anniversary of my book being published by Ad Hoc Fiction @bathflashaward.bsky.social (who did a beautiful job with it, including the design.)🎂 For one day only, the UK price is, a pound per year, just £4, inc P&P! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26752117... #amwriting #flashfiction #booksky

Thank you to everyone on the short and longlists who has accepted publication in our 2026 anthology. So many brilliant stories as beautiful as a summer garden

Mega Congrats to our 5winners in the 33rd Award chosen by @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social 1st, @anneh23.bsky.social 2nd, David Swann 3rd,Cecilia Maddison Highly commended @sarahillswrites.bsky.social Highly commended @Katehorsleywriter.Bsky.social Read their fab stories on bathflashfictionaward.com

‘I couldn’t care less about the state of the road, the paragraphs he expends on pocks, ruts, and the heat…’ Such evocative details in this new flash from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social, highly commended in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🚌 www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/high...

‘The holy souls blow litter and lost dreams down Albemarle Street tonight.’ Love the cast of characters that mark this one. Cecilia Maddison, third place in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🌫️ www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/thir...

‘The hangers rattled inside him, and sometimes he stopped to press a hand against his chest, to steady the contents.’ Gorgeous from David Swann in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🧱 www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/seco...

‘…an eighty pound package of spraytan and Instant Freeze Hairspray, guitar-string-tight when she stands on our hands.’ Just love that final image. @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 📣 www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/high...

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Aww, this is such lovely news!! All the thanks to judge @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social for commending my story. Huge congrats to the winners (for their fabulous flashes—wow!), & congratulations to everyone on the SL & LL; I'm so proud to be in the next anthology with you. 🎉❤️ @bathflashaward.bsky.social

To say I'm stunned is an understatement, still pinching myself, and will be for weeks! Huge thanks to the Bath team for and @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social for believing in my little egg-wife, and to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for his support and advice.

Congratulations to Anne Howkins first prize winner in our 33rd Award www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/firs...

Congratulations David Swann, second prize In our 33rd Award www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/seco...

Congratulations Cecilia Maddison Third Prize in our 33rd Award www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/thir...

Comgratulations Kate Horsley highly commended in our 33rd Award www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/high...

Congratulations Sara Hills Highly Commended In our 33rd Award www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/high...

Coming very very soon the results of our 33rd Award Stay tuned!