International Rolling Flash Fiction Competition

Cleft by Gaynor Jones   noun a fissure or split indentation in the middle of a person’s chin a deep division Cleft. As belonging to me, my father, his father before him, their fathers before t…

Huge congratulations to the winners and highly commended writers in our 2024 Novella in Flash Award, selected by John Brantingham. Read their bios below. Ad Hoc Fiction is publishing, Hereafter the…

Cosmina Counts by Stephanie Hutton Cosmina must measure the room. In this moment, it is all that matters. From her narrow bed, she can just about stretch out her legs before reaching a wall. There’…

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

Détente by Dawn Steffler Because the internet said, children who lose a parent to suicide are more likely to die from suicide. Because for Tyler’s fourteenth birthday, I took him to Disneyland and …

Candy Girls by Christina Dalcher No Jews, no negroes, no single women after six. You can break all three rules if you hawk cohibas and candy from a tray strapped to your neck, so that’s how Miriam …

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share that you are on the long l…

Twenty-fourth Bath Flash Fiction Award Long List TITLEAUTHOR A Display of GriefSudha Balagopal A Lecture on Electricity and the PhantasmagoriaJupiter Jones A Spoonful of SugarJessica Andrews A wave…

Angie by Marissa Hoffmann Her papa folds a crease into a flattened-out paper grocery bag, turns it over, folds it again, turns it, folds it, again, again. Her papa tells her, Paper dolls hold hands…

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

Huge congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.

A Palimpsest of Cheerleaders by Mairead Robinson Mel’s in the bleachers, inspecting her shattered shin-bone, pantyhose around her ankles, thighs like a pair of suckling pigs. Sadie reckons Mel woul…

Eight spare bullets by Sharon Telfer 1 The front windows refuse to shut. The house droops, as after a stroke. They drink in the kitchen. Under the slanting floor, they catch the trickle of thaw. 2 …

Siren by Fiona J. Mackintosh In the wet slap of the haar, the lassies slit the herring mouth to tail and pack them into briny barrels. I see her head move among the rest, brown curls escaping from …

Many congratulations to all the authors who sdfd selected for our Award shortlist. Novella-in-Flash 2021 Award ShortList TitleAuthor A Family Of Great FallsDebra Daniel Hairy On The InsideTracy Fel…

The Metamorphosis of Evaline Jackson by Kathy Hoyle When Evaline Jackson saunters into class after summer break, with brand new braids and cling-cling shorts – breast-buds pouting – we …

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

McDonald’s by Sarah Freligh The boys again, their sneakered feet and chin zits and peach fuzz. Her boy at that age had been slow to grow, slow to do anything. At fourteen, he still had a voice like…

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list and huge thanks to all who entered.

To All the Copies of Us by Noemi Scheiring Olah To the soccer-patterned rubber ball, easy to kick, making us laugh every time it hits our shins with a burp sound, like Daddy, every time he gets hom…

Failure to Thrive by Sara Hills Weeks after we lose her, Lou and I take turns eating our feelings and secretly dosing each other with LSD. On Monday, he tucks a tab into the mayo on my sandwich. On…

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.

Things Left And Found By The Side Of The Road by Jo Gatford Baby car seats, sometimes with babies in them, swiftly recovered. Nettles flourishing in the face of toilet breaks. Things said in anger …

Always Down a Dirt Road, I’m Walking by Sara Hills my two daughters with me. There are trees to the right of us and a field on our left. The field is cropped, oven-crisped at midday. It’s hot. Brig…

The Dissolution Of Peter McCaffrey by Simon Cowdroy Heat-ravaged rivets explode off the corrugated iron roof of our milking shed like corks from shaken champagne bottles. A long drought wind scalds…

The Falling Silent by Tim Craig My mother gave me the small pots and pans, while she took the large ones, and together we went outside to kill the birds. When we got down to the street, most of our…

Sea Change by Fiona Perry He arrives breathless with excitement, clutching a thick plastic bag bulging with shells. At the kitchen table, he points to the bag and tells me they fattened up over win…

Congratulations to all ten authors who have made our 2023 Novella-in-Flash award shortlist, selected by our judge, John Brantingham. The winners are now announced. Below, John writes about the proc…

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.

We’re delighted to welcome Sara Hills as the judge for our 25th Award open today and closing in October. Sara is the author of The Evolution of Birds (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021), winner of the 202…

Reasons You Married a Woman Called Rose by Leonie Rowland Please match the following numbers with the correct letter* a. The love story b. The proverb c. The theories d. The joke e. The myth f. The…

Diamonds in the Earth by James Montgomery The bat splinters, the crowd roars, and the boy’s held fast by the arc of the baseball, blitzing a course straight at him, a mere speck in the outfield, tw…

We’re delighted that Ad Hoc Fiction is publishing Echoes in a Hollow Space, a novella-in-flash from Ruth Skrine, Ruth turned to writing fiction in 1999 when she retired from her long career i…

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and many thanks to all who entered.

Many congratulations to the winners in our 5th yearly Novella-in-Flash Award. Do read our judge Michelle Elvy’s excellent report and comments on these fantastic novellas in flash. All of them…

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.

Mother, Before by Tara Isabel Zambrano Before, my mother settled my twin sister and me every morning in a neighbor’s front yard and boarded a bus to a local bottling plant, in her powder blue unifo…

The Mothers by Jo Gatford At the birthday barbecue the mothers all talk to the other mothers because they are the ones who bought the gifts and the burger buns and made the salad and remembered the…

We’re very excited that the eighth BFFA anthology of stories by winners, shortlisted and longlisted writers from the three 2023 Awards is back from the printers. The title, ‘The Weather…

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We’re thrilled to reveal the cover of the fifth anthology from Bath Flash Fiction Award published by Ad Hoc Fiction. The title, Restore to Factory Settings, is from a story by UK writer, J A …

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.

Blessings, 1849 by Johanna Robinson You remember how you counted your steps as you planted: one step, one potato. The years God gave you babies, the steps were smaller with the weight in your belly…

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.

Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.