We’re delighted to share Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’s really interesting answers to Jude’s questions. Learn more about how she wrote her first prize winning story, selected by judge Matt Kendrick ‘Visiting Lenin’s Tomb’, her current writing projects and a great tip for writing flash. The picture shows Kathryn reading one of her stories which was included in the 2023 Flash Fiction Festival Anthology launched in Bath at the beginning of this year.
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Christopher Allen
Flash Fiction Award Judge
March 2019 – June 2019

Christopher Allen is the author of Other Household Toxins (Matter Press) and Conversations with S. Teri O’Type (a Satire). Allen’s fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in [PANK], Indiana Review, Split Lip Magazine, Longleaf Review and Lunch Ticket, among many other great places. Allen is a multiple nominee for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, The Best Small Fictions, storySouth‘s Million Writers Award and others. In 2017 Allen was both a finalist (as translator) and semifinalist for The Best Small Fictions. He is presently the co-editor of SmokeLong Quarterly and a consulting editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018.
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Highlights from Bath Flash Fiction, 2018
2018 has been a fabulous year for Bath Flash Fiction and our publisher, Ad Hoc Fiction. We began the year with a joint launch of The Lobsters Run Free, Bath Flash Fiction Vol Two, the Ad Hoc Fiction published anthology from the 2017 Awards and Flash Fiction Festival One,
the anthology of flash fictions submitted by particpants and presenters from the first Flash Fiction Festival in Bath. Thirteen writers, pictured on the left and below, who had fictions in one or both of the anthologies read their micros at the event. It was very pacy and fun. Read in Full
Ad Hoc Fiction at the Free Verse Book Fair
Jude Higgins and Meg Pokrass will both be at the Poetry Society’s Free Verse the Poetry Book and Magazine Fair, organised by The Poetry Society, on
Saturday 22nd September in Senate House, London 11.00 am – 4.00 pm Jude will be taking along all the books published by Ad Hoc Fiction. Meg will be there to sign her new collection Alligators at Night published in July this year. Come along and say hello. We’ve special book deals on all the anthologies listed below: Read in Full
Interview with Tara Laskowski
Writer and Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly

