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The eighth in-person literary festival entirely dedicated to flash fiction sponsored by Ad Hoc Fiction and Bath Flash Fiction Award will take place 17th-19th July, 2026 at Trinity College, Bristol Trinity College, Stoke Bishop, Bristol UK. The College is in a beautiful part of Bristol, a short journey from the city centre and we love holding the festival there. It is open to all, experienced writers of short fiction and those new to the form.
Trinity College panorama
Details of all the festival workshops are now posted There are seven time slots for workshops during the festival on Saturday and Sunday and four or five fantastic workshops to choose from in each slot.
There’s also a prefestival workshop with Kathy Fish on Friday afternoon. . This workshop is separate from the festival package and is open to those who are not attending the rest of the weekend.
Booking for the weekend packages and the prefestival workshop will be open via a registration form by March 1st. (The Booking page is posted but the registration link is not live yet)
Costs are:
£320 for place only which includes the seven workshops and all activities, plus refreshments. Bring your own meals
£360 for place with all meals (Sat and Sun lunch and Sat evening meal. Workshops etc as above
£480 for place meals and accommodation. Two nights (Fri and Sat) budget bnb single room accommodation at Trinity college (rooms limited).All activities as above.
£400 for place, meals and two nights camping (Fri and Sat) in the grounds at Trinity College. All activities as above.
For those booking accommodation at Trinity extra days on Thursday and Sunday nights are available.
A few day places will be available later.
International Presenters at the festival:
From the UK: Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Susmita Bhattacharya, Anika Carpenter, Stephanie Carty, Heidi Clark, Judy Darley, Emily Devane, K M Elkes, Carrie Etter, Vanessa Gebbie, Jude Higgins, Sara Hills, Ingrid Jendzrejewski, Jupiter Jones, Karen Jones, Farhana Khalique, Rosaleen Lynch, Alison Powell, David Swann, Alison Woodhouse
From Ireland: Marie Gethins, Fiona McKay
From The Netherlands: Jet Rotmans
From Cyprus: Nora Nadjarian
From the USA: Roberta Beary, Kathy Fish, Fiona J Mackintosh, David Schuman,
From Australia: Gillian 0’Shaughnessy
From Canada: Finnian Burnett
What else is happening? There will be book launches and readings on Friday evening and Saturday evening and Sunday morning,
There’s a festival bookshop for flash fiction where you can also bring your own flash fiction books to sell
A bar for socialising in the evenings and during the day.
And your flash fiction friends to meet from all over the world! It’s very friendly.
The Pokrass prize</strong> (festival mini competition open to all participants with £50 cash prize for winner plus books and books for two runners-up)
A festival raffle, again in aid of the Penny Brohn Cancer Centre, a national charity based in Bristol with much on offer to cancer sufferers.
And another special pre-festival treat, three flash fiction writers who are coming to the festival are reading from their Flash fiction collections at East Bristol Books on Thursday 16th July, for anyone who is already in Bristol for the festival. Readers are Kathryn Aldridge-Morris from the UK, Patricia Bidar from the USA and Gillian O’Shaughnessy from Australia.
More info here
For you to get a sense of the festival atmosphere from the 2025 in-person festival, check out the gallery of pictures taken by participants.
