Oct 2025 Long List

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 list, we do ask that you do not identify yourself with your particular fiction at this stage.

Important
We receive many many entries, and occasionally some entries have the same title. We are in the process of sending an offer of publication email to all authors on the long list. Please do not assume you are on the long list unless you have received that publication offer. If in doubt, contact us.

Thirty-First Bath Flash Fiction Award Long List
Title Author
A Girl A Cigarette A Beetle tba
A Leap of Faith tba
All is Failing tba
Almost Belong tba
Beast tba
Billboard at the End of the World tba
Boundaries tba
Brother tba
Butterfingers tba
Careful preparation is key when transplanting mature bare-rooted shrubs tba
Clearing Out the Dregs of Mammy’s Kitchen tba
Cold cross buns tba
Cowed tba
Cupcakes tba
Cut tba
Drive Thru Cone tba
During the 2023 Adelaide dust storm tba
East Wind Messenger-1 tba
Emigration tba
Flashes of Blue tba
For my daughter the next geologic cycle is just beginning tba
Fragments of What Was tba
Green Bottle Flies tba
Hollow As a Ship’s Hull tba
How Far Down Must You Dig to Find your Ancestors tba
I Played Guitar, I Knew Stuff tba
Immersion tba
In the Backyard tba
In the Breath Between tba
Like an Immigrant tba
Lipstick tba
Lou Rakish tba
Love and Luck on Planet Earth tba
My Best Friend Has Started Posting Inspirational Memes tba
My Bunion, My Mother tba
My Daddy Wears a Cape tba
My Husband Watches Henry the Donkey tba
Next Time it could be for real tba
Our Linda tba
Rules for Playing The Miners Strike With My Sister tba
Saccharum Officinarum (Sugarcane) tba
Shore Leave tba
Tabitha Palmer Was a Part of Me for a Short Time tba
The Drowning Season tba
the housing crisis tba
The Menopausal Woman and the Tsunami tba
Too tba
Two nude night-owls tba
Vagina First tba
Your Wedding Dress is in the Boot of Your Car tba

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