With just over three weeks left until the deadline for our 33rd Award, on Sunday June 7th, here’s a really interesting interview with Shelley Roche-Jacques who won first prize in the February Award. She talks about how the story came into being and the ways she worked on it, tells us about her other writing and teaching and gives some great advice on writing entries for a competition. Read her first prize winning story linked below. And judge Ingrid Jendzrejewski’s comments on it and the other winners.
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Thank you to our October first prize winner Adam Brannigan from Australia for his very interesting and thoughtful answers to our questions about what inspired his winning story ‘Two nude night owls’, his writing style and where he writes. He’s provided a link for you to read another of his prize-winning flash fiction stories and do check out his great writing prompt at the end of the Q & A to inspire you write a layered story sparked off by the mundane. Adam”s landscape photograph is from a very recent bushwalk he took in South West Rocks, New South Wales and the picture of fungi was taken on Bribie Island, Queensland. Read in Full

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, Marie Gethins comments about her amazing first prize win and look for a great prompt by Alison to inspire you to write for the next round at the end of the interview,

Q & A with Alison

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We’re thrilled Sara Hills has joined Sharon Telfer and William Davidson in winning first prize in Bath Flash Fiction Award on two different occasions. Sara’s writing goes from strength to strength. Below, read how ‘Like Dynamite’ came into being and how Sara used punctuation so effectively in it, her latest exciting writing news and stories forthcoming.The picture shows Sara reading at last year’s Flash Fiction Festival and we’re grateful for her recommending this year’s festival in Bristol, where she’s a member of the team, at the end of this interview. Read in Full

It was great to hear Sara Hills read her story, A Cock Among the Bathers’ brilliantly at the flash Fiction Festival flashfictionfestival.com on July 13th, just a couple of weeks after she won first prize with it in our June 2024 Award.The photograph shows Sara in full flow. Below she tells us more about the history of her story and how and where she writes. Plus we have a picture of Samson, her flashfiction-inspiring dog, some tips on writing a winning story and a little writing prompt for you at the end if you want to enter the current Award (or anything else). Early-bird discounted entries end this Sunday, 11th August. One entry £7.50, Two entries £12 via Paypal or card.You can save paypal receipt and enter by the deadline, Sunday October 5th. Matt Kendrick is judging Read in Full

Read Jude’s spring equinox interview with first-prize winner Mairead Robinson to find out, among other very interesting things about her writing, how she wrote her stunning winning flash selected by our 26th Award Judge Susmita Bhattacharya. You’ll also find links to more of her brilliant stories, and you can try out writing flash to all permutations of the colour ‘yellow’, Mairead’s prompt for a spring-based flash fiction now the celandines, daffodils and primroses are out. Earlybird discounted entries for our 27th Award finish on April 14th. Final deadline 2nd June. Judge Michelle Elvy Read in Full

Anna M Wang is a Bristol based author and librarian. Her novella in flash, Prodigal (runner up Bath Flash Fiction Novella in Flash Award 2023), is currently available through Ad Hoc fiction and Amazon. Her writing examines the introspective, the interpersonal, mental health, surrealism and femininity.

She’s recently begun organising a community project on the subject of Tarot Cards, and is eager to showcase a variety of voices and styles. Read in Full

We are delighted to post a Q & A with the October first prize winner, Dawn Taska Steffler from the USA. Dawn sent us some great pictures to go with her answers. A view from her sister’s backyard in Hawaii, her pets Rascal the dog, Momo the cat and Coco the chicken. and an extraodinary photo of her at The Broad in Los Angeles, which looks like she is a giant’s house! Be sure to read all the interview for inspiration and to get to the end and Dawn’s great prompt for writers who might want to enter our next Award. Dawn uses, as inspiration, a very powerful excerpt from a Martin Luther King text.

The Early bird discounts for the February Award, end on Sunday December 17th and the competition deadline is Sunday February 4th, 2024. Our Judge is novelist, short story and flash fiction writer Susmita Bhattacharya from the UK. Interview with Susmita coming very soon.

Q and A with Dawn Tasaka Steffler

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