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Online and in person flashfiction events. Next online festival day Oct. Next in person festival 17-19 July 2026 flashfictionfestival.com
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
Time Wasting
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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
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
Bath Flash Fiction Award | International Rolling Flash Fiction Competition
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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
Fns Shooting Stars: Meteor Shower
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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...
BFFA anthologies! Mini contest
There are ten BFFA anthologies altogether (available from Amazon. All links to Amazon on different countries at adhocfiction.com) containing stories from the 31 Awards we have run since 2015. But t…
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Two CNF’s by ErinBondo and @lunchontuesday.bsky.social from our online festivals last year nominated here for Best of the Net. Congratulations & best wishes to them www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/09/best...
Best of the Net Nominations
We nominated pieces for Best Small Fictions last week and here are our nominations for Best of the Net. We’re eligible this year to submit in two different categories (CNF and Fiction). We…
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"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.
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago🫀🫁🦴 WINNER of the Body Prize, "Dear Walt Whitman" by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social A lyrical, emotionally taut gem of a micro in epistolary form: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
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
Fiery Glowing Number 1
ALT: Fiery Glowing Number 1
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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 don't usually write about sex but @sarahillswrites.bsky.social fun workshop at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social inspired me. Excited my story found a home in the fabulous @bulbregion.bsky.social! bulbregion.com/Ophelia-in-B...
Ophelia in Brooklyn, by Beth Sherman — The Bulb Region
Ophelia in Brooklyn — Beth Sherman JAMES MAKES LOVE WEARING a Kim Kardashian...
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My novella-in-flash ‘William Prichard & Co’ is two years old today! To celebrate, I am giving away a copy. You can read more about the NIF on Goodreads & my website. If you would like to be in the draw, please repost & dm me. I will pick names out of the hat on Saturday 22 August. Sorry UK ONLY.
Thrilled that @megpokrass.bsky.social chose my story as an honorable mention for the Pokrass Prize at the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social, congrats to @daveswann.bsky.social and Maggie Fawcett on their gorgeous stories! 🤩
@flashficfestuk.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations 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...
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...
Pokrass Prize 2026 Winners
Thank you to Meg Pokrass for again supplying prompts and image and judging the 2026 Pokrass prize which was announced at the festival. Anyone who came to the festival was eligible to enter and ther…
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Congratulations to the Winners of the When the Title of The Story Is the Story festival contest www.flashfictionfestival.com/festival-coa...
Festival Coaster Competition Winners!
We had an excess of coasters (pictured here) for the bar at the flash fiction festival and somebody (I think it was team member Sara Hills) had the good idea of running a festival contest for a sto…
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Oh the dialogue from this dad 👏 @christopherallen.bsky.social!!! "I was admitted to a clinic for depression; he had a woman play the harp. Dad, please. Get the hippie with the harp out of here. Pulling out the stops here, son. Pulling out the stops." www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/groun...
The Ground Above My Feet by Christopher Allen | Literary Orphans
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Don’t miss out on the chance to win a free copy of my NIF ‘William Prichard & Co’. I’ll be picking a name out of the hat next Saturday! UK ONLY.
Diane Simmons@scooterwriter.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor the evening crowd!
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-...
Q & A with Jo Gatford, Judge 34th Award
Jo Gatford is an award-winning writer, editor and mentor. Her short fiction has been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, and published in 70+ anthologies and l…
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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/
Up to 750 words flash writers!
Stephen Tuffin@stephentuffin.bsky.social · 3mo agoHello loves! The Squat Pen Rest Short Story Championships of the World is back. Six writers will read their work to an appreciative audience this November. To be in with a chance of being one of the Magnificent Six, click on the link and send your stories. t.ly/D0B1J and please share far and wide. 😀
And I nabbed some cards by the super-talented @jeanettesheppard.bsky.social and books by @jupiterjonz.bsky.social, @victoriamelekian.bsky.social and @bsherm36.bsky.social. 🙌🏽🤩
The @flashficfestuk.bsky.social is whirling by and my brain is already overflowing with ideas & conversations. Workshops w the amazing @alisonpowell.bsky.social on writing global events, full house for @vanessageb.bsky.social word cricket, had sex (writing) w @sarahillswrites.bsky.social (cont'd)
Good times at the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Flash 🥔s @hanakhalique.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @kateaxeford.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social's book MOTHER KARMA Hanging out w @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social (cont'd)
Missing everyone and wishing I’d taken more than three photos at this year’s @flashficfestuk.bsky.social. Loved catching-up with @tiptreejen.bsky.social @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @fabwrites.bsky.social & meeting Ellen-Arwen Tristram. #flashfiction
@sarahillswrites.bsky.social you hot, HOT chicken! Thank you for a @flashficfestuk.bsky.social workshop SO SEXY that it fed into pretty much every other workshop, including Heidi Clark's 'Make a Zine’. 🐓🫦 #flashfiction
Ohhhh cool you bought a copy of Sumitra's book - I brought them to the festival for her 🧡 Knew she'd have fans at the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social
