Short List BFFA October 2026

Many congratulations to all the twenty authors who have been shortlisted for our October Award by judge, Jo Gatford (titles listed below).

It is fine to share that you are on the shortlist, please don’t identify yourself with your story until judging is complete.

The final results will be announced (a couple of weeks later than usual) by November 16th.

Thirty-Fourth Bath Flash Fiction Award Short List
Title Author
Cornflakes Town is Burning tba
Fall tba
For Love tba
L’Air du Temps tba
Meeting Again for the First Time tba
My Dead Dad tba
My Mother at the Waffle House tba
Nandos 5pm tba
Peanuts tba
Sorry Joan, I’ll Float by Shortly tba
South tba
Teen Spirit tba
The Beekeeper’s Tongue tba
The Last Avocado in the World tba
The Other Side of Your Blanket tba
The Workings tba
Things That Remember Us tba
To be happy tba
Violetti tba
Wonders recorded in the shrine of Eileen tba

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