My Books

Clearly Defined Clouds, my full collection of over seventy flash fiction stories, many winners in contests or published in anthologies and literary magazines previously, was published in July 2024 and launched that year at the flash fiction festival in Bristol. You can buy it from
Ad Hoc Fiction and from Amazon in paperback. Here’s a picture of me reading from it at the festival launch.

Award Winning Writer and writing tutor Kathryn Aldridge-Morris kindly reviewed it on Goodreads recenly
“Higgins is a master of the short form. These powerfully understated stories are layered with meaning and backstory. No word is unnecessary. Every object and image, every word of dialogue is in service to the story. She is brilliant at capturing those quiet moments in relationships packed with tension, longing and baggage. She is also a writer who understands the personal is political. But her stories aren’t didactic. With the sleight of hand of a magician, she’ll artfully drop in a line that stops you in your tracks and makes you think, like: “Not too far in the future, people would long to be stung by anything, even a mosquito.
Higgins is also a nature writer, and one of the few writers who tackles the climate emergency. Her stories remind us we are part of, not separate from, nature. She writes about missing hedgehogs, a future where Tupperware parties are replaced by infestation parties, yarn-bombing and depressed silverback gorillas. Couples getting lost in fields of corn.
Some stories floored me – Higgins understands how to convey longing and sadness without being overwrought – while some made me laugh out loud: A character says of her therapist: ‘“Speak as the animal you are. Eat only pink foods.” He was a tidy man, with a guarded face. She paid him money to suggest such things.’
If you want a deeply satisfying reading experience, I can’t recommend strongly enough!”

My flash fiction pamphlet ‘The Chemist’s House’ was published by V Press. in June 2017. Thirteen flash fictions based on growing up in Mid-Wales in the middle of the last century.

The pamphlet is now also for sale as an ebook on Amazon kindle (October 2020). And still available in print from this website now. Diane Simmons baked this lovely cake for me at the launch of The Chemist’s House in 2017

“A collection that pokes softly at the spaces between people: sister, brother, father, mother, neighbour, friend. Higgins’ stories reveal moments where small truths, and lies, dwell. Understated and quiet, these small fictions paint lives gently, but oh so colourfully.” Michelle Elvy

“In interconnected, finely wrought flash fiction stories, Jude Higgins creates a coming-of-age tapestry — of family love and conflict; and of a girl’s passage into womanhood. Higgins’ flash pieces blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, loving, and profound in emotional impact.” Meg Pokrass

Thank you very much to Cherry Potts for reviewing it on ‘Saboteur Reviews.’
and to Alison Woodhouse and Ruth Skrine who have reviewed the collection on Amazonand to Al Kratz who has reviewed it on Good Reads and to the kind others who have given it four and five stars.

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