Thank you to everyone from around the world who entered the 34th Bath Flash Fiction Award. We received over 900 stories again from many different countries and again many entries from those new to the Award as well as regular entrants. We really appreciate you all for supporting our ventures. So many wonderful stories beautiful and inventive in different ways.

Congratulations to the three top winners and highly commended, listed below and to all those longlisted and shortlisted. Most writers have accepted publication in our 2026 anthology. And as it’s the final round of this year, the anthology will be compiled as soon as possible and hopefully, published early in the New Year.

Thank you very much also to Jo Gatford, the judge of the 34th Award. The results of this round have been delayed by a couple of weeks for various reasons and Jo was kind enough to incorporate the new timetable of judging into her schedule. You can read here her excellent general comments on the longlist of 50 stories she received and her insightful remarks (read here) on the winners and commended.

The brilliant winners of the 34th Award are:
First Prize Kate Horsley from the UK with her story ‘Corn Flakes Town is Burning’
Second Prize Zoë Davis from the UK with her story ‘To be Happy’
Third Prize Edelle Dwyer from Ireland with her story ‘South’
Highly Commended Julie Evans from the UK with her story ‘The Other Side of Your Blanket’
Highly Commended Jennie Bricker from the USA with her story ‘For Love’

The 35th Bath Flash Fiction Award, the first of 2027 will be open in the next couple of days and closes in early February
Judge this time is award winning prose and poetry writer David Swann. David is returning to judge the Award ten years after judging before in 2027
Interview with him coming soon

Jude
November 15th, 2026