Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.
| Twenty-first Bath Flash Fiction Award Long List | |
|---|---|
| Title | Author |
| A Desperate Fluttering of Things | Julia Ruth Smith |
| A Fairy Tale | Katie Maxim |
| Below… | Mark Barlex |
| Between | Madeline Byrne |
| Blessings take their own revenge | Catherine Trundle |
| Builder’s Crack | Mark Left |
| Cast Iron | Mallika Narayanan |
| Catch and Release | Tania Hershman |
| Climate Change | Carol Ann Parchewsky |
| Don’t mistake me for your crabapple | Abigail Williams |
| Endless love | Theresa Chadenga |
| Escapism | Renée Flory |
| Forces of Nature | Sara Hills |
| Full Genghis | Tracy Fells |
| Gone for Some Time | Meg Anderson |
| Hospital Goodbyes | Rachel Schmidt |
| How Do You Say Goodbye Forever in Portuguese? | Carina Gaspar |
| How to Cope with Dark Places | Lia Brooks |
| I try wishing for more wishes and the djinn’s like come on dude | Jo Gatford |
| Ill Wind | Kevin Sandefur |
| In search of my grandmother | Alison Powell |
| In the Room Where the Women Die | Tim Craig |
| In the Rubble, a Butterfly | Karen Whitelaw |
| Last of the fruit | Alison Wells |
| Laughter in the Dark | Courtenay Schembri Gray |
| Making Dumplings | Michele Wong |
| Monkeys | Kate O’Grady |
| Mulching with Barbies | Cole Beauchamp |
| Noughts and losses | Fiona Lynch |
| On our daughter’s wedding day | Sudha Balagopal |
| Post-mortem | Jo Withers |
| Red hot redemption | Timothy Lindner |
| Secondhand Hand | Christine H. Chen |
| Sedimentation | Penny Davis |
| Sequelae | Rachel Blake |
| Sketching | Emmanuel Sheppard |
| Something Big | Melinda Mayor |
| The boy in the front row is waiting patiently… | Simon Cowdroy |
| The Chandelier | Frances Dalton |
| The Cost of Living | Paddy Gillies |
| The dot that completes | Rachel Weld |
| The Newsagent | Mike Kilgannon |
| The Shape of the Situation in Apartment 23C on a Sunday in September | Olwen Wilson |
| The Windmills of El Rosedal | Alexandra Packer |
| To the Young Woman Trying on the Puffball Wedding Dress | Ali McGrane |
| Tripping over something wet | Mohammed Rizwan |
| Unspeakable Susan | Lisa Blackwell |
| Visitation | Conor Montague |
| Wallace Hartley’s Violin Played as Titanic Sank Sells for $1.7 Million | Debra A. Daniel |
| Where Nothing and Everything Matters | Gina Headden |
