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 am) you have 24 hours left to enter. The Award ends at midnight BST

The prize fund is £1460 for flash fictions up to 300 words. The judge this time is Alison Woodhouse, award winning writer and writing teacher from the UK. Results out by the end of June. Publication offer for the fifty long listed writers. One entry £9.00, two entries £15.00, three entries £18.00.

This time, instead of a last minute club badge, we’re offering a three free entries to the 34th round for the first 3 people who contact us at assist (at) bathflashfictionaward (dot) com and let us know by Monday 8th June, that they have entered at least twenty awards since we began (including this one). We’re trusting you on this as we don’t have Paypal records back that far (2015)!! We can check back a few years only.

Why have we stopped issuing the Last Minute Club badges? Because Jude used to get people to share their badges on X and now , because of its owner, she doesn’t use that platform anymore for Bath Flash or other accounts. We’re on Bluesky but Socials don’t have the same buzz as back when we began sharing badges in June 2018.

As an inspiration for a last minute entry, you could include something in your story that will make our readers smile! I rather liked seeing Smile written on a pavement near a bus stop in Bristol recently

Best wishes for a final sprint!

Jude