Christine Collinson

February 2025 Long List Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share that you are on the long l…

Congratulations to all 50 writers who have been selected for our 29th award longlist.https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/02/february-2025-long-list/

Yes, it’s one of the 3 I have in the Anthology. Thanks for posting! 💫

Sundial Magazine - The Making of 'Madam Geneva' The Making of 'Madam Geneva' Words by Christine Collinson Art by Yaleeza Patchett

"Always a penny and it worked the same. Scorched your throat, filled your belly, lightened your head. An elixir for escape; who wouldn’t want it."

Atmospheric #historicalfiction from @collinson26.bsky.social in @sundialmagazine.bsky.social

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Welkin News | MattKendrick.co.uk A writing prize open to all forms of narrative prose, be that flash fiction, short-short, vignette, haibun, hermit crab, prose poem or work that sits outside such labels.

Drum roll! 🥁🥁🥁

Announcing the longlist for the #WelkinMini 2025: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

If you're on the list, please celebrate wildly (but don't reveal the title of your piece).

If you didn't make it this year, commiserations. Many amazing pieces missed out.

Novella in Flash Award 2025 Short List Congratulations to all the authors who have made the 2025 Novella-in-Flash Award Short List.(Final results in late January, 2025).Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share …

Congratulation to all the authors shortlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. 12 this time. There were excellent novellas to choose from on the longlist and we hope everyone finds publication. Thanks also to everyone who entered. Final results end of
Jan. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/nove...

Sundial Magazine - Someone Else's Wound Someone Else's Wound by Christine Collinson

I’m still here (just not often 😃) - link to my latest work ⬇️

“I touch his arm, sense latent ripples. The tension is not draining as easily as the blood."

Read "Someone Else's Wound", the new #histfic #flash about scuttling gangs by @collinson26.bsky.social

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"I touch his arm, sense latent ripples. The tension is not draining as easily as the blood."

Read "Someone Else's Wound", the new #histfic #flash about scuttling gangs by @collinson26.bsky.social

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Novella-in-Flash Longlist, 2025 Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list for the 2025 Award (Final results in January, 2025) and huge thanks to all who entered.Author names are yet to be announced, so …

Congratulations to all the writers longlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. & thanks to all who entered. Short list out early Jan. winners late Jan www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2024/12/nove...

Such a shame, if so (I’ll have lost quite a few) 🥺

Welkin Mini The Welkin Mini is a biennial competition to celebrate micro fiction and creative non-fiction up to 100 words. Like the main Welkin Prize, it is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers.

Entries are officially...

OPEN!!!

All details and entry form here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Good luck!

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Our Microfiction comp opens on 1 Dec and we're delighted to announce this year's judges: @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social For more info on the comp & our judges pls click on the link: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/

National Flash Fiction Day Save the Date: we're celebrating the next National Flash Fiction Day on 14 June 2025!

We're excited to announce that the theme for our next anthology is SEASONS. We're thrilled to welcome Cheryl Markosky @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social as guest editor. Cheryl will be joining Karen Jones in reading the submissions. You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/

hand-drawn art of downtown London in 1960s. All black and white except for red double-decker bus.

“Am I going to stay here with you until the baby comes?”

"It’s not going to be born. Tomorrow, we’re going to the clinic in Harley Street and the doctor is going to scrape it out of you."

Read "Terminus", #shortstory and #art by @hilary55.bsky.social
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We’ll be opening submissions to our anthology & micro comp on 1 December. All our anthologies (apart from last year’s) are on sale for £5 plus p&p. Why not have a peek at flashes we’ve published in previous years?

Bath Novel Awards trophies and the Bath Assembly Rooms

✒️Upcoming submissions opening and closing dates
🌟2024 Bath Children's Novel Award (📚MG, YA, CB, PBT) closes 30 Nov
🌟2025 Bath Novel Award (📚A, YA) opens 1 Dec (2024) thru 31 May (2025)
🗺️Open to emerging writers everywhere
👐Sponsored entries always available
bathnovelaward.co.uk
#writersky #booksky

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It’s not long now till we announce our theme for this year’s anthology. Watch this space !!.

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0ur 29th Award closes 2nd Feb. £1460 in prizes. Anthology. Up to 300 words. Earlybird discounts end 15th Dec. Buy now via PayPal,save receipts & enter by deadline. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Only one month left to submit to #flashfictionfebruary. WC 200-850w. Deadline 15th December. Please follow the link for our guidelines #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubissions. Thank you to all who have submitted so far fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/

Absolutely delighted to be longlisted in this contest! 💃

Have you had a scroll through our first prize winners on the website? 28 of them now. @sharontelfer.bsky.social & William Davidson have won twice! And @kazbarwrites.bsky.social was our October 2024 winner. All stunning #flashfictions
Bathflashfictionaward.com/winners

So pleased to find you! 👀

Sundial Magazine

Sundial Magazine is here! Check out our online literary magazine. We exclusively publish historical fiction. I'm the editor, Ashley, and I am going to begin using Bluesky more. sites.google.com/view/sundial...

A Cheese and Pineapple Hedgehog A Flash Fiction by Christine Collinson

My latest flash piece was shortlisted in WestWord’s Past Times Prize 🤩

Hoping some folk here will check it out!
🧀🍍🦔🍍🧀

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A Cheese and Pineapple Hedgehog A Flash Fiction by Christine Collinson

My latest flash piece was shortlisted in WestWord’s Past Times Prize 🤩

Hoping some folk here will check it out!
🧀🍍🦔🍍🧀

westword.substack.com/p/a-cheese-a...

I’m here too, if anyone is looking to connect!

I may be around more if the other place becomes even more of a ghost town 🫥

I’m here too, if anyone is looking to connect!

I may be around more if the other place becomes even more of a ghost town 🫥

Working on mine! ✍️

Past Times Prize This annual competition is for historical flash fiction stories.

Tick-tock. The deadline for the inaugural Past Times Prize for historical flash fiction is this month! You have just a few more weeks to send us your stories set in this year’s era to win publication and cash prizes. Quick! This year’s era is the decade of my birth…1970s.

WestWord Prize 2025 WestWord Prize

We are excited to have a revamped WestWord Prize for 2025 and to have signed up the brilliant @sarahillswrites.bsky.social as the judge! Cash prizes and online anthology edition publication for all winning and shortlisted writers. Send us your best stories up to 1000 words! 💙

Entries to our micro competition (up to 100 words, no theme) are open till 15 Feb. First prize is £150, second £100, third £50 plus 7 x £20 Highly Commended. More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...