Alison Woodhouse

This fantastic comp closes on the 26th!

Announcing… FAILED SUMMER VACATION by Heuijung Hur - translated by Paige Aniyah Morris.

‘A bold, weird, brave exploration of the imagination.’ Vanessa Onwuemezi.
‘These strange stories of isolation and longing will stay with you.’
Jessie Greengrass.

Out from Scratch Books 3rd June!

A big thank you to everyone from around the world who entered our 2025 Award which closed at the end of March. As usual, it was a hectic final weekend and our team is now busy reading.

Results will be out in July.

Best wishes to all!

Debut Novel by Patrick Holloway, our 2023 BSSA winner, now published! Patrick Holloway won first prize with his wonderful short story,’The Language of Remembering’ in our 2023 Award, judged by Farhana Shaikh. We’re very excited to announce that his …

Only 7 DAYS till the 2025 award closes.1st prize is £1200, out of a £1750 prize fund. This year’s judges are literary agents Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from C&W Agency (Lucy also judged our award in 2014). Submit up to 2200 words on any theme/subject.

www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...

THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD International Short Story Competition

Two weeks to tweak (or even write something new? Deadline for our 2025 Award is 31st March. £1750 in prizes. Anthology publication for shortlisted writers

From bathshortstoryaward.org

Love this 👏👏

Such a brilliant collection of stories 👏👏

@sarahhegarty.bsky.social

@sarahhegarty.bsky.social

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Congratulations to everyone on the longlist 👏👏

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Sign up!!

Isn’t that great! 💕

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Very pleased to have my first flash officially out in the world! Thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social for organising and @scooterwriter.bsky.social for judging!

And go give @laurieiswriting.bsky.social and @chriscottom.bsky.social's pieces a read, I am in excellent company!

One city, two literary colossi: Jane and Mary in Bath Bath is well-known for its literary associations, the most famous being Jane Austen, who spent only a few years in the city and had a conflicted relationship with it. In a letter to her sister Cass…

www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/02/10/o...

Interview with Connor Donahue, the winner of our 2024 Award Congratulations again Connor on winning our 2024 Bath Short Story Competition and thank you for agreeing to answer a few questions for our blog. Our judge, Sophie Haydock, commented that this was a…

Interview with Connor Donahue, the winner of our 2024 Award bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/02/04/i...

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Submissions to our anthology on the theme of SEASONS (up to 500 words) and entries to our Micro Fiction Competition (no theme, up to 100 words) close a fortnight today. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

I’m just reading @ailsacox.bsky.social Precipitations (2nd story in) - it’s brilliant! Look forward to yours 👏

Olive green!

Hey @scooterwriter.bsky.social
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
@jeanettesheppard.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social
@alisonwoodward.bsky.social
@fionamckay.bsky.social
@kathyfish.bsky.social

We’re looking for badge colour guessers for Last Min Club badge —win a book. Can you guess/share? Thnx

Final day & Last Minute Club open for our 29th £1460 prize fund award. Up to 300 word #flashfiction Last min club badges available later this am. Thank you to everyone who’s entered so far Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Sounds so interesting! Looking forward to reading it ❤️

Brilliant! 👏👏xx

Woohoo ! Well done 👏👏

Oh well done everyone! 👏👏👏

Karen Jones joins BSSA team Karen Jones is a flash and short fiction writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and her story “Small Mercies” is included in Best…

Karen Jones joins BSSA team www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/01/28/k... via @bathstoryaward

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