This story is so beautifully constructed. flash500.com/flash-fictio...

This is so good! Funny & wry and just brilliant. But stop all this cake stuff. There's no cake in my house and now I want to eat some!! @quickasaflash.bsky.social

Thrilled to be published in issue 5. I enjoyed writing this one and hope it'll make you laugh. I look forward to reading the other stories. Good to see some familiar faces here @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @joycebingham.bsky.social

Just signed up. Sounds good.

Your story is fantastic, Gill, I was knocked out by it - looking forward to people getting a chance to read it in full.

I'm very happy that this anthology has taken its name from my story. Buy the book and you can read good stories AND help save UK wildlife and wild places Why wouldn't you?https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/

Three friends struggle to figure out how they'll cope with loss and the fears it provokes. Amidst the teenage banter, @emilyrinkema employs her trademark delicate touch to show us the mother's essential role in giving these girls the safety they lack. Love Emily's work!

Just read Jess Dolan’s beautiful counterpoint narrative. An icy scuba dive is interspersed with flashbacks to the event that led the narrator to seek an escape. The structure is perfect and the descriptions visceral. Do go and read it.

Two lifelong friends party together. With skilful foreshadowing @finnegag.bsky.social establishes a growing unease as their differences start to show, suggesting disaster is on the horizon. Great story!

Wow! Just read the three winning stories. Each one’s a stunner.

Look forward to reading this on Sunday.

This is beautiful. I find it full of both urgency and stillness.

Congratulations to David O'Dwyer, Megan Griffo, and Jamie Redgate for placing 1st, 2nd, & 3rd in the Cambridge Prize. Thanks to @rupertdastur.bsky.social for all his hard work in running this competition.

Really happy to be included in this shortlist and excited to find out the winners. Congrats to all shortlisters, including those I recognise @chriscottom.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social theshortstory.co.uk/competitions...

Just devoured this Twin Peaks inspired piece in @tinymolecules.bsky.social Brooding and brilliant. I'm reading it in a cafe with a kids' playground in the garden, now waiting for something awful to happen to inspire me.

Oh I did enjoy these prompts (after an initial wtf moment) !

Congratulations to the winners. Can't wait to read these stories.

Didn't get further than longlist but congrats to the highly commended and the shortlisters. Thanks to Frazzled Lit editors for their professionalism and warmth in their timely announcements and commiseration emails.

Excited to be on the longlist. Congrats to other longlisters + all eyes on the 3rd.

Thank you so much for reading and posting Christine! I appreciate it.

Gill, I wanted to make sure you saw this one, too: open.substack.com/pub/andreagi...

Gill O'Halloran reading Another Time, an emotional yet surreal sea-inspired story, published in the 2024 Bath Flash Fiction Anthology. @flashficfestuk.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social

Thrilled to be alongside @sarahkat.bsky.social and @iridescentwords.bsky.social both of whom I've just met @flashficfestuk.bsky.social. V pleased it'll raise funds for wildlifetrusts.org thanks to editor @therelphian.bsky.social Still something special about the printed word.

Thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social for reading in @flashficfestuk.bsky.social workshop and introducing me to Andrea Gibson, who sadly died on 14th July 2025. I love this! andreagibson.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...

Amazing story, Gill - so happy to be able to tell you in person this weekend 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 Link: open.substack.com/pub/westword...

@seabirdcentre.bsky.social Bass Rock was where my story 'Love in the Time of Bird Flu' began. Now the gannets face a new threat. Berwick Bank has been estimated to kill 329 Gannets and 986 Kittiwakes a year through collision alone. Add your voice to the protest. www.seabird.org/conservation...

Great to be @flashficfestuk.bsky.social when my WestWord2025 1st prize ' Love In The Time of Bird Flu' appears. Thanks to Amanda Saint @retreatwest.bsky.social to judge @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for her lovely words, + to @smokelong.bsky.social for the workshop that started it.

Just raced through this story. Compelling, weird, beautiful!

Metafictional brilliance!

This seems to be the day I read stories that touch me deeply. Melissa's CNF is beautiful, how we hold the pain for our kids. Do go n read it.

Thrilled to win the WestWord 25 prize with 'Love in the Time of Bird Flu'. Look forward to sharing when it's online on 18th July. Congrats to @joycebingham.bsky.social + Charlie Swailes + shortlisters. Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for encouragement and @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for judging.

epistemiclit.com/past-issues/... As usual reposted the wrong post! Never mind, two-for-one. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social congratulations!

Just read @pleomorphic2.bsky.social The Schizophrenogenic Mother. It's stunning, as a lyrical piece, but also for addressing the stigma of the condition and the prejudice faced by family. An important must-read.

Shortlisted! newwriters.org.uk/competitions... Congrats to the winners + @smokelong.bsky.social pal @alisonwassell.bsky.social for a top 10 place! Her story's so powerful. Submit to @newwritersuk.bsky.social, and support 2 charities, for disadvantaged UK students and combatting poverty in Kenya.

@kateog.bsky.social ' s Falling Off the Wagon in Oklahoma' is another reason to buy this jewel of an anthology: wonderful mix of the dark - falling headlong back into alcohol abuse, and the glittering - a room of Debbie Harry look-alikes. And an emotional punch of an ending.

Thank you!!! I'm loving all these stories. Wonderful. 'Another Time' is heartbreakingly beautiful. The slowly crumbling stoicism is sublime.

Honestly , its worth buying for the titles alone! eg @heatherbooknook.bsky.social 'Smelly Dog You Need A Clean, Filthy Bitch Your Teeth Are Green.' Stunner of a story too btw.

Only reading my copy of the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology 2024 now. Beautiful cover, amazing variety of flashes. Look forward to reading mine, 'Another Time,' at the @bathflashaward.bsky.social flash fiction festival next month. The workshops all sound so good, hard choices to make.

Did not make the longlist this time, but congratulations to those who did. Look forward to seeing the winners soon.

Ahh, Gill!! Thank you!! I love your winning story in this anthology! It was so wonderful to spend time with you on Saturday!! ❤️

Wrong Jupiter! @jupiterjonz.bsky.social

The NFFD book launch - excellent! Inspiring workshops @jupiterjones.bsky.social @susmitab.bsky.social, + a chance to hear authors read their flash. Buy it if you want stories of cryogenics @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social, masturbation @sarahillswrites.bsky.social, alligators @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

This will be a great book and if reading loads of flash means also supporting the creative arts- win win.Do buy it and give some love to NFFD.

Thank you, Trash Cat.

Thank you Katie!

These are asynchronous, with an AMAZING teacher @mattkendrick.bsky.social!! Price need not be a barrier now! Sign up!

Look forward to reading and meeting everyone else there.

Longlist, but not further. Congratulations to the shortlisters and especially winner Margaret Magee and second place Margaret Davis.

I love this flash by Alison Wassell