I founded the international Bath Flash Fiction Award in 2015. It’s a thrice yearly contest with a £1460 prize fund for small fictions. of 300 words or less with a different international judge each round of the Award. All fifty writers longlisted in the three rounds of the award are offered publication in our yearly anthology. The tenth anniversary anthology will be published late this year (early next). The Constancy of Woodpigeons (pictured here ready to be posted out to contributors), the ninth anthology, was launched at the flash fiction festival this year with readings from several writers published in the antholog,y who were attending the festival. The current round of the contest, judged by award winning writer and writing tutor Kathryn Aldridge-Morris from the UK, is open until October 5th for entries. We have a very fast turn around and results are out by the end of October. 
You can also read winning and highly commended writers’ stories from all 30 rounds of the award on the website bathflashfictionaward.com where you can also find many interviews I have done with the winners and the judges of the awards over the years. The interviews are a great resource for writers interested in flash. Learn, among other things, what winners and judges believe makes a good flash fiction.
I also launched the novella–in-flash award in 2017 and have run one yearly since. The ninth award is currently open for entries until the end of October. It’s for novellas-in-flash inbetween 6000 and 18000 words. Over the years, Ad Hoc Fiction has published over 40 novellas from this contest, winners and shortlisted. How to Make A window Snake, the first winner, by Charmaine Wilkerson, won a Saboteur Award for Best Novella in 2018, and another first prize winner, Season of Bright Sorrow by David Swann won the Rubery Book of the Year in 2023.
The latest winner (2025) is In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit,by US writer, Debra A Daniel. It is available to buy from adhocficton.com where you can read more about it, and from Amazon.
Find out all about the criteria for the novella-in-flash award. on bathflashfictionaward.com. The winner receives £300 and publication and two runners up £100 plus publication.
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