We had intended a short list of ten pieces, but due to the high quality of submitted fictions, we have increased our list to twenty. Inaugural Bath Flash Fiction Award Short List Fiction Title Author A Life Lived in Colour Vanessa Savage Animals Molia Dumbleton Bait Trap Chrissie Cuthbertson Blaze of Glory (The big Crunch) […]
Many congratulations to all twenty authors who have made our 26th Award short list selected by our judge, Susmita Bhattacharya. While it fine to share that you are on the shortlist, please do not identify yourself with your story until the final results are announced, at the end of February. Thank you.
We’re thrilled that our authors and enterprises are short-listed in FIVE separate categories in the Saboteur Awards 2023. Thank you to everyone who nominated authors published by Ad Hoc Fiction and also selected our other enterprises. Big congratulations to all five Ad Hoc Fiction authors, our small press, Ad Hoc Fiction, our Dandelion Years anthology, […]
Congratulations to all ten authors who have made our 2023 Novella-in-Flash award shortlist, selected by our judge, John Brantingham. The winners are now announced. Below, John writes about the process of selecting the shortlist from the longlist of twenty-six novellas we sent him. So many wonderful novellas to choose from in the longlist and there […]
All the novellas in flash shortlisted in the 2022 Bath Novella in Flash Award are excellent and varied in subject matter and style, and we’re delighted that our short short fiction publisher, Ad Hoc Fiction, is able to publish the full set again and all the authors have agreed to publication which is likely to […]
Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award short list.
Congratulations to all our shortlisted writers. As well as the 2021 winners and highly commended, Ad Hoc Fiction will be publishing these five wonderful novellas-in-flash by the authors below. Kipris by Michelle Christophorou Michelle Christophorou was born in Lancashire, UK to a Liverpudlian mother and Greek-Cypriot father. Her stories have won and been placed in […]
It’s amazing that we are shortlisted for the Saboteur Awards in five categories this year! Ad Hoc Fiction in The Most Innovative Publisher category, the Flash Fiction Festival in the Best Literary Festival category and the four books described below in the Best Anthology, Best Novella and Best Short Story Collection categories. Thank you so […]
We’re thrilled that Finding A Way, Diane Simmons flash fiction collection, published by our short-short press, Ad Hoc Fiction has been shortlisted for the Saboteur Awards. We suggested you might like to nominate her if you enjoyed the book and thank you very much to everyone who did this.Voting is now open to find the […]
We’re excited that Nancy Stohlman has released an audio book of her acclaimed craft guide book, Going Short, an invitation to Flash Fiction. Our small press, Ad Hoc Fiction published it in Autumn 2020 and it has won several awards. You can buy the print from ahocfiction.com bookshop or from Amazon, where you can add […]