Our 31st Award closes 4 weeks today, on October 5th. Our judge is Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, a previous first prize winner of Bath Flash Fiction Award (read her story, selected by the judge of that round, Matt Kendrick here). Double and triple entries are discounted. £1460 in prize money. Results out at the end of October. All fifty longlisted writers are offered publication in our anthology. It’s your last chance this year to be published in our tenth anniversary award anthology and to receive a free copy of the book.

If you want a prompt,read our interview with Alison Powell, first prize winner of the 30th Award (story linked here).

If you want last minute inspiration, on Saturday 27th September and are in or near Bath, Jude’s holding a FREE evening of readings with readings from around 15 flash fiction writers, in St Jame’s Wine Vaults gallery room in Bath, from 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm. Free snacks and raffle with tickets £1.00 each and good prizes of books and other goodies. Proceeds from the raffle are again being donated to Penny Brohn National Cancer Help Centre, based in Bristol. At the in person Flash Fiction Festival, we sponsor, we raised £384 for Penny Brohn and they sent us this lovely thank you certicate to share. Thanks to all who came to the festival and bought tickets and for volunteer Nicold Keller (helped by Cheryl Markosky) for selling them