Ready for the New Year, we have announced the 2026 NIF award shortlist.,Congrats to all the authors. Final results out end Jan. The longlist was also full of excellent novellas. Best wishes for all of them & to everyone who entered. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/news/

Absolutely stoked to have my Highly Commended CNF 'The Ewe and the Lamb' included in this stellar Arts Council funded journal!

Congratulations to all 27 writers on our 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award longlist. And thank you to everyone who entered. So many good and inventive novellas were submitted. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/12/novella-in-flash-2026-longlist/

I’ve decided to hang up my hat at NFFD as I move in a new creative direction, visually. Its been a privilege and such a wonderful experience. Thank you to Diane, Ingrid and Tino for asking me to be a part of the the team and to everyone who said lovely things about my work over the years. X

Many thanks to School Reading List for placing our book on the fiction shortlist with lots of awesome titles. @reenamakwana.bsky.social Great time to buy with @theemmapress.bsky.social sale too. #kidlit #childrensficrion

Thank you so much to @scooterwriter.bsky.social and @lunchontuesday.bsky.social for this incredible honour. I hope to uphold the amazing legacy left by brilliant artist @jeanettesheppard.bsky.social whose work has graced the covers of seven anthology covers for @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social

Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

We are very excited to announce that Joanna Campbell @joannacampbell.bsky.social is our new artist-in-residence! She has been a huge supporter of NFFD for many years & we’re thrilled to have her as part of the team! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

The long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 is here! Congratulations and thank you to all who entered. The judging has been and continues to be extremely tough. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Brilliant @flashficfestuk.bsky.social day today w/ generative workshops from @hanakhalique.bsky.social, @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social & @lunchontuesday.bsky.social! Lots of drafts & ideas born out of this one. Thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social for organising & everyone who read/presented/shared 😊

Thrilled to have a new #flashfiction up on #SoFloPoJo Gratitude to Ed @francinewitte.bsky.social and thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social for original prompt from @flashficfestuk.bsky.social this year Yeehaw! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...

This Sunday and next Monday I'm delivering my workshop on Writing Prose Poetry Series and Sequences online. Spaces only £25, with a couple low-income spots available at each session. Previously delivered for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social and @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social with great results! Pls share!

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/high... Congratulations @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!

Congratulations Debra A Daniel! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/octo...

Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...

Congratulations Adam Brannigan! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/1st-...

Thank you to our 31st Award judge Kathryn Aldridge Morris for her excellent choices & comments. Do have a read www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/judg...

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/31st... 1058 entries for this round. Thank you very much to everyone.

Thrilled to be featuring your marvellous flash, Kate. It's Beautifully rendered and I thank you for having sent it our way ‪@katehollingswrites.bsky.social‬ @susmitab.bsky.social b.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social ‪

I love this piece by Kate Hollingsworth in @fictivedream.bsky.social - conceived in my The Female Gothic workshop at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social festival this year. fictivedream.com/2025/10/12/b...

I witnessed the birth of this flash at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social in @fionamckay.bsky.social 's excellent workshop and look at it now - beautiful! Congrats Rosaleen!

We are on GMT for this the 31st Award. So it’s 3 Hours still to the deadline l! Did you get your badge yet for the Last Minute Club so you can join the party? Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Fallen massive dahlia flower makes a fancy hat to help our founder @judehwriter2.bsky.social celebrate the final few exciting hours of our 31st award judged by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social Deadline midnight gmt today 5th Oct £1460 prize fund. Anthology Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

The Last Minute Club for our 31st, £1460 prize fund award is open! Here’s our pink and green LMC badge. You should be getting one if you enter today. Deadline midnight today, Sunday 5th Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Ebook bonus stories from @sfreligh.bsky.social, @jaimegill.bsky.social, @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social, @sagreene1.bsky.social @lunchontuesday.bsky.social, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @maureenmcely.bsky.social & comps @mindsshinebright.bsky.social, @welkinprize.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social!

The Last Minute Club is open tomorrow 5th Oct, the final day of our 31st Award.All entrants tomorrow get a LMC badge. Can you guess the colour this time? A few samples of previous ones below. Winner gets a free entry to the award. Reply here. Results tomorrow Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

I’ll be at the October one - early start for me, so might slip into the back of the class late, but looking forward to it!

Thanks so much to everyone who came to read flash fiction at St James Wine Vaults Bath. Many of the wonderful stories read were published in different @bathflashaward.bsky.social anthologies & @flashficfestuk.bsky.social anthologies

Wonderful evening of readings organised by @judehwriter2.bsky.social Great to see familiar faces @scooterwriter.bsky.social @jupiterjonz.bsky.social @flemwrites.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social And meet new ones Marie Day, Abi Williams, Caner Akin & Letty Butler

Are your stories in full flower yet? One week to go till the deadline for our 31st Award on Sun Oct 5th.. £1000 first prize. Up to 300 word #flashfiction. Results out fast. Anthology publication offer for 50 longlisted. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Busy compiling the 1st of the new rainbow series of festival anthologies. Thanks to all who came to the July in-person fest & subbed stories. Another opportunity to be published if you come to our online festival days. There’s a mini contest with publication as prize Flashfictionfestival.com

This weekend & one more till our 31st Award ends on Sun 5th Oct. Up to 300 word #flashfiction Results by end Oct. £1460 in prizes + publication offer in our 10th anniversary anthology for all 50 longlisted Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

2 weeks till the deadline of the 31st Award on Oct 5th. £1460 in prizes. Want to give an up to 300 word story a go? Try out Jude’s prompt in the post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/two-...

3 workshops a day on the online Fest days. By @carrieetter.bsky.social @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @lunchontuesday.bsky.social David Swann, Emily Devane, Heidi Clark, ShelleyRoches Jacques, Christopher Allen, Farhana Kalique + contest, readings. £35 a day.£90 for 3 days flashfictionfestival.com

don’t know if you remember this @judehiggins.bsky.social & @flashficfestuk.bsky.social but my story that you lovely people published in the 2024 fest anthology included a reference to Vibrio as a part of a tale of unrequited love with a marine biologist at a Scottish conference…this is that FYI 👇

Did you come to the in-person #flashfiction festival in July. Subs for the red issue, 1st of the new rainbow series of festival anthologies close 14th Sept! Stories selected by @judehwriter2.bsky.social & @scooterwriter.bsky.social

Great deal! $64 CAD for online Flash Fiction Festival #WritingWorkshops, because attending would involve plane tickets and cost... *counting on fingers* 8 billion CAD

I’ll be here! Hanging out as a participant in the October one and teaching a class on Emotional resonance in flash fiction in November.

Not far to go! Just over 3 weeks till our 31st Award ends on Sun Oct 5th. For #flashfictions of up to 300 words. £1460 in prizes. judge @kazbarwrites.bsky.social All 50 longlisted offered publication in our 10th anniversary anthology. Results out by end Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

3 workshops a day on the online Fest days. By @carrieetter.bsky.social @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @lunchontuesday.bsky.social David Swann, Emily Devane, Heidi Clark, ShelleyRoches Jacques, Christopher Allen, Farhana Kalique + contest, readings. £35 a day.£90 for 3 days flashfictionfestival.com

Delighted to have my story, Lucille Ascends, take 3rd place in the latest @flash500.bsky.social competition! flash500.com/flash-fictio... It came from a writing exercise set by the wonderful @noranadj.bsky.social at the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social last year (where so many good things begin) ❤️

Oh, what fabulous news! Congrats @jmgatford.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social 💫💫💫

Delighted to have a story accepted for the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social 2025 anthology. Many thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social & all involved at Flash Fiction Festival this year. #flashfiction

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/

‘The ringmaster stands below, a mere multicoloured, top-hatted dot.’ Love the details and the depiction of this scene from @eleanor-luke.bsky.social, first prize winner of this year’s @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Pokrass Prize 🎪

‘…lumber is the right word, her body like a lump of wood, cut against the grain…’ Love the lyricism within the lines here from @rachaeldunlop.com, runner up in this year’s @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Pokrass Prize 📖

‘By Thursday, she was waist-deep in absence…’ This surreal and surprising tale from Tim Collyer, runner up in this year’s @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Pokrass Prize 📸