We love the results of the June Award coming three weeks before the Flash Fiction Festival where so many flash fiction fans gather to celebrate the short-short form.
For this round we received 999 entries from the following 35 countries:
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
Thank you to all of you. We appreciate all of you for your support. The Last Minute Club badge, issued to last day entrants reflected the colours on the cover of the 2024 Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology, recently published after a delay. As usual there were many writers who entered at the last minute and received their badges. Thank you to the earlybirds and the many others who entered before the final deadlines. We appreciate all of you for your support.
Our big thanks also to to Marie Gethins for judging th 30th Award, choosing the short list of twenty from our longlist of fifty and selecting the winners. Read Marie’s report to see comments on the longlist she received and how immersed herself in the stories and read and re-read the stories before coming to her decisions all marvellous stories:
This time round, three different countries were represented among our five winners.
First prize winner The City of Los Angeles is on Tactical Alert is by Alison Powell from Somerset in the UK
Second prize Psalm (Among the Animals) is by Joseph Randolph
Third prize Revelation, 1859 is by Sharon Telfer, from Yorkshire in the UK
Michelle Wright from Australia is highly commended for ‘Negative’ and Christine H Chen from the US is highly commended for ‘Awakening
All stories along with those by shortlisted and longlisted writers will be published in our 10th Anniversary Anthology, out at the end of this year or early next.
The 31st Award, judged by award winning writer and writing tutor and one of our previous first prize winners, Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, will be open tomorrow July 1st and will close in early October.
We look forward to reading your stories.
Jude Higgins, June 29th 2025
