We’re thrilled that Ad Hoc Fiction has now published Snow Crow the sixth yearly Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology! 136 flash fictions 300 words or under from the longlist of the three 2021 Awards. All the authors, from around a dozen different countries, are listed below. The Awards were judged this year by Charmaine Wilkerson, K.M.Elkes and Sharon Telfer and extracts from their reports are quoted on the back cover and the foreword. So many fantastic stories to read! The title and the striking cover design this year are inspired by our October winner’s story, by US based writer, Doug Ramspeck, which you can read here, along with Doug’s interview about the story.
We’d love to see pictures from the contributors when the anthologies arrive in their location. Either posed with snow, or crows or anything else! Here Jude’s copy is perched on a hedge with a crow (or maybe its cousin, a raven) looking down.
Snow Crow is available from Ad Hoc Fiction or in paperback from Amazon.
Authors within the book
Abigail Barker,Alexis Boddy,Alison Wassell,Alison Woodhouse,Amanda McLeod,Amy Barnes,Amy Mackrill,Amy Stewart,Andrew Stancek,Anne Howkins Anne Summerfield Antoinette Bauer,Audrey Niven,Bahar Razaghi,Barbara Diggs, Bernadette Stott,Carl Stevens
Catherine Deery,Catherine Edmunds,Cathrin Hagey,Charise de Becker,Chauna Craig,Chloe Banks,Christine Collinson,Claire Carroll,Claire Penna,Conor Montague,Dara Elerath,Debra A Daniel,Denny Jace,Dettra Rose,Diane Simmons,Doug Ramspeck,Elena Croitoru,Elizabeth Edelglass
Emma Kentish,Emma NealeEmma Phillips,Finnian Burnett,Fiona J. Mackintosh,Francis McCrickard,Freda Churches,Geeta Sanker.Georgiana S Nelsen,Gina Headden,Hillary Rose,Isabella Mead,Jason Jackson,Jayne Martin,Jo Gatford,Johanna Robinson,John Brantingham,Jupiter Jones,K.S. Lokensgard,Karen Jones,Karen Vallerius,Kate Carne,Kathryn Aldridge-Morris,Kathy Hoyle,Katie Hale,Keely O’shaughnessy,Keith S. Wilson,Ken Shirley,Kinneson Lalor,Kirsty Seymour-Ure,Kristen Loesch,L.J. Moss,Laura Kyle,Lauren Collett,Laurie Marshall,Leonie Rowland,Lily Peters,Lottie Hazell,Lucy Lasasso,Lyn Ellis,M Casseem,Madeline Anthes,Maria A. Ioannou,Maria Jackson,Marissa Hoffmann,Mark Left,Marsha D Rappley,Mary Francis,MaxieJane Frazier,Melissa Bowers,Michael Salander,Molly Lanzarotta,Morgan Quinn,Natalie Warther,Neil Clark,Nicholas P. Murray Nick Petty,Nicola Godlieb,Peter Davison,Philippa Maughan,Rachel J Fenton
Rebecca Netley,Regan Puckett,Rhys Jones,Rob Swain,Robert Barrett,Rosaleen Lynch,Rose San Jose,Ruth Skrine,Sage Tyrtle,Salena Casha
Sally Bothroyd,Sally Vanns,Sam Payne,Sara Hills,Sarah Ann Winn,Sarah Reader Harris,Saskia McCracken,Simon Cowdroy,Slawka G.Scarso,Sophie Goldsworthy,Steven John,Tea Vatsadze,Terri Mullholland.Tom 0’Brien, Tim Craig,Tracey Slaughter,Tze Chua
Come to the launch party, hosted by Ad Hoc Fiction director, Jude Higgins on Wednesday 22nd December, 7.30pm – 9.30 pm on Zoom for four of the novellas-in-flash published from our 2021 Award! Published today (9th December 2021), in a beautiful line up, One For the River by Tom 0’Brien a runner up in the Award; and two short-listed novellas, The Listening Project by Ali McGrane and Kipris by Michelle Christophorou. We’ll also be officially launching Small Things by Hannah Sutherland, highly commended in the 2021 Award and published in October. 
These are four brilliant novellas in flash, all very different and at the launch the authors will tell us more about them and each read three short pieces from the books.There will be break out chats and a book giveaways at the end of the evening. Hope you can come! Email jude {at} adhocfiction {dot} com for a link. All welcome. In the meantime, have a look at our 2021 judge,
We’re thrilled that Season of Bright Sorrow 
The striking cover image was also designed by Sam and shows a prison notebook. Sam and Dave have supplied a ‘Property of the prison’ stamp for us to use to make the book unique before it is posted off to purchasers. Season of Bright Sorrow will also be available on Amazon worldwide at publication, but you won’t get an individualised stamp there!
Karen Jones is a flash and short story writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Micro Fiction and The Pushcart Prize, and her story 'Small Mercies' was included in Best Small Fictions 2019 and BIFFY50 2019. In 2021 she won first prize in the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize, Flash 500, Reflex Fiction and Retreat West Monthly Micro and was short listed for To Hull and Back, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Bath Short Story Award and longlisted for Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. Her novella-in-flash, 
When Jude asked me to judge the 19th round of the Bath Flash Fiction Award, it got me thinking about why I like writing for competitions. How it helps my creative process, that is, setting aside any distant prospect of prizes and glory (welcome as those are, should they ever come). For me, it’s the disciplines of wordcount and deadline coupled with the challenge that safe won’t cut it. If your story is going to stand out from so very many other excellent, unseen pieces, you need to step out onto the high wire.