Jude Higgins

Q & A With Alison Powell,1st Prize winner, 30th 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, M…

Q and A with Alison Powell first prize winner in our June Award jFind out how she wrote the story & get a writing prompt too! . https: www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/08/q-a-with-alison-powell1st-prize-winner-30th-award/

We haven’t got any left at @adhocfiction.com but please buy from Amazon!

Love love love this collection too (and, well, anything @sarahillswrites.bsky.social writes)!

In RUH Bath with gall bladder inflammation. Three good things, I am getting better, this is the view from my window & it didn’t happen before the @flashfctionfestival.com

Yes! And to you too!

5. Huge thanks to director @judehwriter2.bsky.social & everyone on the team who worked incredibly hard to make it run smoothly, esp heroes @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social and @karjon.bsky.social, Trinity staff Dave and Pete, & the rockstar volunteers who pitched in on nearly every task (I see you!). 🌟🌟🌟

ps. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - thank you so much for your big hug. I felt it. Made me emotional. Sending a big, loving hug back. ❤️

5/5 special shout-out to Amigas @fionamckay.bsky.social, @sagreene1.bsky.social, @writershq.bsky.social crew @therelphian.bsky.social, @sarahkat.bsky.social, @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social AND @nomad-sw18.bsky.social - my first-time karaoke partner (loved it, thanks so much 🎤❤️ )

4/5 great chats: @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social, @kazbarwrites.bsky.social, @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, Michael Loveday, David Swann, @timcraig.bsky.social, @christopherallen.bsky.social, Video Guy, @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social, @laurabesley.bsky.social, @quickasaflash.bsky.social

3/5 inspiring workshops: @kathyfish.bsky.social, @kazbarwrites.bsky.social, @vanessageb.bsky.social, David Swann, @susmitab.bsky.social, @karjon.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, @hanakhalique.bsky.social...

Just about recovered from the Bath Flash Fiction Festival last weekend. Huge thanks to organiser @judehwriter2.bsky.social and the brilliant Festival team, especially @sarahillswrites.bsky.social, Sonora Hills, Karen Jones, Polly, and all of the wonderful volunteers. It was quite the weekend!💐

Well that's a wrap for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social ! Amazing workshops w @kathyfish.bsky.social on The sound of #flashfiction & @hanakhalique.bsky.social on #Hybrids

Forgot to bring my phone today, so many peeps I didn't get pics with, but here's @tiptreejen.bsky.social belting it out last night 🎶

1/5 How do you get back to 'real life' after such a magical @flashficfestuk.bsky.social weekend in lovely Bristol? How? How? Brain's on strike but my heart's filled to the brim and heck yeah I'm being sentimental and not making sense and immense gratitude to everyone who made this event possible...

I'm back from @flashficfestuk.bsky.social, again impressed by how different it is each year. Maybe fewer braided pieces and hermit crabs? Here's what the karaokers missed in the quiet room

Lovely to meet you and love that dog!

So lovely to see old friends and new at this year's @flashficfestuk.bsky.social! Thank you so much again to Jude, Diane and co. (won't tag you all in case that's a bit overwhelming!). So happy to be invited back as a presenter, loved all the workshops I attended and all the chats/fun in between 💙

THANkYOU to everyone who came to the 7th in-person Flash Fiction Festival. Happy times! We’ve completed the first rainbow series of anthologies & are starting a second rainbow this year!
I’d love all your photos
here & will post a festival gallery on the website soon flashfictionfestival.com

2. Thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, @devaneemily.bsky.social for the fabulous workshops, and apologies to Michael Loveday, whose workshop I had to miss because my brain had decided it couldn't take in any more information by that point.

1. Another #FlashFictionFestival over and done. What a fabulous weekend with the most brilliant people.
Enormous thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @sarahillswrites.bsky.social who do so much work for months before the festival even happens, then even more when we're actually there.

2/5 much love to these wonderful people and trying not to leave out anybody (very sorry if I do, Brain's all jumbled up): @judehwriter2.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social, @karjon.bsky.social, @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social; @iridescentwords.bsky.social...

✍️ Excellent and varied workshops from @shelleyr-j.bsky.social, @sagreene1.bsky.social, @hanakhalique.bsky.social, @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social, @judehwriter2.bsky.social and Damian Dressick. Thank you!

Collection of objects including a velvet toy cat, a tin featuring a hedgehog and hare sitting down to tea, a button, a plastic dinosaur, tiny plastic people, and more...

Big thanks to everyone who joined me for my Lost & Found session at this year's #flashficfest. Pictured: some of your creepy friends... I loved hearing your own lost & found stories. Do keep sharing them with me. Many thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social for inviting me 🙏.

West Country garden cousins of @theliterarypig.bsky.social Woodpigeons. Back in the early spring before they got their book cover & title The Constancy of Woodpigeons (Tracy’s story)

Congratulations to the Winners of the 30th @bathflashaward.bsky.social -Many thanks and gratitude to judge Marie Gethins and @judehwriter2.bsky.social for "Awakening" 🙏🥰

Pre-Order Alert!!

OMG 🤩 Here it is!! The cover of my new NiF, The Lives of the Dead 😍

Thanks to Jane Ryan for the cover art! And thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and all at @adhocfiction.bsky.social

(Coming to Amazon soon for those outside UK)

The Lives of the Dead by Fiona McKay @fionmckay.bsky.social
runner-up in our 2025 novella in flash award is now up for preorder at AdHocFiction.com at a 25% discount until publication day on July 6th
A wonderful read! Launched at flashfictionfestival.com

Sharon Telfer, Third Prize, June 2025 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…

‘And morning comes, still as milk.’

Such rich, evocative language in this story, bringing these scenes so brilliantly to life. Congratulations @sharontelfer.bsky.social, third place in @bathflashaward.bsky.social ⛈️

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/06/shar...

Spin of the Triangle by Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social
runner-up in our 2025 novella in flash award is now up for preorder at AdHocFiction.com at a 25% discount until publication day on July 6th
Another wonderful read! Launched at flashfictionfestival.com

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Stay Tuned! The results of our 30th Award will be announced later this morning on bathflashfictionaward.com

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And thank you to all those longlisted who have already agreed to be published in our tenth anniversary anthology. And to all who entered. We had so many good entries to select from