FlashFictionFestival

3 workshops a day on the online Fest days. From @Carrie_Etter @LunchOnTuesday Finnian Burnett, David Swann, Emily Devane, Heidi Clark, Shelley Roches Jacques, Christopher Allen, Farhana Kalique + contest, readings £35 a day flashfictionfestival.com

Congratulations to the 27 authors longlisted for the 2026 novella in flash award and thank you to everyone who entered. So many good and inventive novellas were submitted. Shortlist by the end of Dec . ://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/12/novella-in-flash-2026-longlist/

Community works. Sign-up time to start Oct 1st is here! smokelong.com/smokelong-fitn…

Deadline Nov 15. Previously published and unpublished micros 250 words or fewer considered. Grand prize $1000. Guidelines here: smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…

Not far to go! Just over 3 weeks till our 31st Award ends on Oct 5th. For #flashfictions of up to 300 words. £1460 in prizes. 50 longlisted offered publication in our 10th anniversary anthology. Results out by end Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Your flashy news! Amazing value Great Festival Flash Off days on Zoom in Oct, Nov and Jan.l 31st Award closes in just over 4 weeks, 5th Oct, NIF Award closes 31st Oct. Live event 27th Sept.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/dates-…

Read the stories by the winners of The Pokrass Prize! Announced at the #flashfictionfestival in Bristol. Congratulations to winner Eleanor Luke & the two runners up Rachael Dunlop & Tim Collyer & thank you to Meg Pokrass for setting the prompt & judging flashfictionfestival.com/pokrass-prize-…

Can’t believe it’s a week on since the 2025 Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol. Thank you everyone who came from around the world & helped create a wonderful #flashfiction community. Thank you to @timkcraig for taking the picture. It was all fabulous!

@theliterarypig @FlashFicFest 'Twas a pleasure, as always! I really love being there and working with you. Next years is already marked on my calendar... and I will do my own posts about this weekend tomorrow xxx

Final shoutout to the workshop hosts who gave me so much to write about. @KenElkes @judehwriter @RocheJacques @VanessaGebbie @farhanashaikh @tiredpsych and the readers, my God, so much to love and be inspired by. Thank you FFF2025, I loved it 🌟

Met awesome, inspirational writers and Trash Family too! Big love to @poetrypleases @nomad_sw18 @fionaemckayryan @iridescentwords @itssonoemi @jupiterjonz @KateAxeford and so many more! 3/4

A huge thank you to gorgeous Sarah Royston for sharing this experience with me. It was so lovely to decompress and share after-hours chats. I was so happy to see the love for her amazing collection, Fernseed too 💚 2/4

What a weekend @FlashFicFest. So glad I decided to go. I will crash out for a week now - but that's a payoff I'll happily live with. I got to meet and be surrounded by the best flash writers as well as do incredible workshops. So much positive energy and inspiration 😀 1/4

We’ve now published the three winning novellas in flash from @BathFlashAward and they’re all going to be launched at @FlashFicFest tomorrow Friday 18th July with the all the authors there reading! Buy from AdHocFiction.com

Here’s the lawn outside Trinity College Bristol soon to be crowded with #flashfiction fans! We’re all set for the Festival this weekend in Bristol! Hurrah — the weather looks good not too hot, not too cool, maybe a little drop of rain. So looking forward to meeting everyone!

Gettng ready for the flash fiction festival ⁦@FlashFicFest⁩

The Festival’s getting closer! Closed for bookings. But If you’re suddenly able to come, 18-20 July in Bristol, contact us for possibilities. Fabulous festival raffle prizes (money raised donated to Penny Brohn Cancer Help Centre, Bristol) now listed! flashfictionfestival.com/raffle-prize...

Booked on the festival? The Pokrass Prize, the free contest with. £50 first prize plus 2 runners up getting books & all getting publication closes today, 21st June. The summer solstice, It’s the longest day, so you still have plenty of time! Details at Flashfictionfestival.com

Bookings for our 6th in-person yearly Flash Fiction Festival 18-20 July in Bristol close on 25th June, we have some places with camping, a few places without accommodation & some day places. Have a look at all the details at flashfictionfestival.com. International crowd! Fun!

Out on the summer solstice. A lovely sunrise for the 50 longlisted! Congratulations everybody!