Bath Flash Fiction Award
The Bath Flash Fiction Award is more than just an award for tiny stories. They also run a competition for novellas-in-flash, with publication with Ad Hoc Fiction as the prize, and an annual Festival. There are often online Festival workshop days too, scattered throughout the year. These days would be an excellent way to find out more, if you don't know much about flash fiction.
I went to the very first Flash Fiction Festival, run by Jude Higgins and her team, held in Bath in 2017, because I knew very little about the craft of flash, and wanted to know more. Subsequent Festivals have been held in Bristol, and are residential for those who wish to stay on site. I can honestly say that I have learnt so much about the craft of writing from attending these Festivals, and reading and listening to excellent writers. The Festivals have a wonderfully supportive and fun atmosphere too - there is always a lot of laughter.
Without the Festival, I would probably never have written my prize-winning novella-in-flash Aerth, which is being published by Weatherglass Books in January. It is available to pre-order from the publisher and also from all major bookstores. The Weatherglass Novella Prize was judged by Ali Smith, and here (again!) is what she said about my book:
