There are ten BFFA anthologies altogether (available from Amazon. All links to Amazon on different countries at adhocfiction.com) containing stories from the 31 Awards we have run since 2015. But t…

We nominated pieces for Best Small Fictions last week and here are our nominations for Best of the Net. We’re eligible this year to submit in two different categories (CNF and Fiction). We&#8…

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Ophelia in Brooklyn — Beth Sherman JAMES MAKES LOVE WEARING a Kim Kardashian...

Thank you to Meg Pokrass for again supplying prompts and image and judging the 2026 Pokrass prize which was announced at the festival. Anyone who came to the festival was eligible to enter and ther…

We had an excess of coasters (pictured here) for the bar at the flash fiction festival and somebody (I think it was team member Sara Hills) had the good idea of running a festival contest for a sto…

Jo Gatford is an award-winning writer, editor and mentor. Her short fiction has been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, and published in 70+ anthologies and l…

We’re thrilled to announce that the winning novellas-in-flash from the 2026 Novella in Flash Award are now published on Amazon worldwide in paperback. Winner: Unhoused by Victora Melekian fro…

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We’re thrilled that the Flash Fiction Festival Anthology, Vol Eight, the first volume of the second rainbow series of anthologies compiled by Jude Higgins and Diane Simmons is now published b…

Congratulations to the twenty authors who have made our Award short list (titles listed below) selected by judge Alison Woodhouse. Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share…

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…

Once again a big thank you to Meg Pokrass,for judging the Pokrass Prize, named for her as one of the founders in 2017 (along with Jude Higgins) of Flash Fiction Festivals UK. The first festival was…

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It’s the final day for last minute writers! Thank you to everyone who’s entered already and for those who have plans to enter today, Sunday 7th June. At the time of posting this (12.01 …

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While we are still in the planning stages of A SmokeLong Summer 26 (our fifth year!), we do have quite a few of our ducks in relatively nice rows. There might be a few changes to this schedule, and we...

Thank you to everyone who sent in work for our judges to consider this year. Narrowing down the field from 1200 entries to the list of 23 stories below has been a grand task for our 16 judges, an inte...