Weekend Timetable 2025

Note: You will be able to select workshops you want to attend when booking closes in June. Everybody usually gets their first or second choices for each session
Booking for weekend packages open now

Friday Afternoon/Evening 18th July

2.00 pm – 5.00 pm in Dining Room
. Pre-festival workshop with Kathy Fish

2.00 pm onwards

  • Arrivals and socialising.
  • Check-in for accomodation open at Trinity College until 9.00 pm and Churchill Halls unntil 10.00 pm
  • Register arrival in Reception at Trinity College (Old Building Main Entrance)

    • 2.30 pm -4,00 pm

  • Bookshop open plus meet and greet for new comers in the Tyndall Room.

    • 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

  • Pre-Festival Workshop with Kathy Fish Flash Magic: Conjuring Beauty & Originality

    • 2.00 pm – 11.30 pm

  • Bar open (Badger’s Pouch) run by Trinity College.
  • 5.00 pm -5.30 pm Meet and Greet for newcomers:

    • 5.00 pm – 6.00 pm

  • Friday meals. Pre-order (on the booking form) from a choice of three: chicken tikka, beef or vegetarian/vegan chili with sides–cooked and served outside in the grounds.

    • 6.30 pm – 6.45 pm

  • Welcome and introduction by Jude Dining Room

    • 6.45pm – 7.30pm

  • Flash fiction readings by festival participants (lottery selection) Dining Room

    • 7.30 pm – 8.00 pm

  • Two mini book launches (tba) introduced by JUde Dining Room

    • 8.00 pm – 8.30 pm

    • Flash fiction readings by festival participants (lottery selection) facilitated by BFFA team member Karen Jones. Dining room
        • 8.30 pm till late – socialising in the bar (Badger’s Pouch) and outside. ). Festival Karaoke n the bar, hosted by Helen Rye and Christopher Allen. (There’ll be a space for quiet conversation inside too).
        The bar is open until 11.30 pm and karaoke will finish then.

      Saturday 19th July

      8.45 am – 9.45 am
      Early morning hour-long workshops.

      • Art and Flash: with Anika Carpenter Lecture Room One – 30 max
      • Unlocking Your Fairy Tale Toolkit: with Judy Darley Front Lounge – 30 max
      • Precious Jewels: with Jude Higgins Lecture Room Three – 20 max
      • Building a Flash Fiction Collection: with Kathryn Aldridge MorrisLecture Room Two, 30 max
      • 52 Stories for Readers and Writers with Rosaleen Lynch 15 max Dalton Room

      9.45 am – 10.15 am

      • Coffee/tea in Dining Room. Meet and Greet for anyone who has not come before
        BOOKSHOP OPEN
        10.15 am – 10.25 am

        • Welcome, information about the weekend events including introduction to workshop facilitators. Dining Room

          • 10.30 am – 11.00 am

        • ‘The Biggest Word Cricket in the Whole Wide World’. with Vanessa Gebbie. The traditional half an hour warm up writing workshop for the entire assembly. Dining Room.

        11.05 am – 12.35 pm
        Workshop Session One. One and a half hours.

        • Play it By Ear: with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One – 30 Max
        • Packing an Emotional Punch: with Finnian Burnett Lecture Room Two – 30 max
        • A Sense of Wonder: with David Swann Front Lounge 30 max
        • Reading as Writers; with Alison Woodhouse Lecture Room Three 20 max
        • The Stories in your Phone: with K M Elkes Badger’s Pouch (the bar) 30 max

        12.35 – 1.00 pm

      • Book shop open

        • 12.35 pm – 1.45 pm Bar open

        1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

      • Lunch. Dining Room

        • 2.15 pm – 3.45 pm 90 min workshops

      • Transforming Setting into Place: with Damian Dressick Lecture Room Two – 30 max
      • The Female Gothic in Flash Fiction: with Susmita Bhattacharya in Badger’s Pouch (the bar) – 30 max
      • Lost and Found: Using Objects to Bring the Past to Life; with Emily Devane Front Lounge – 30 max
      • The Dark Side: Workshop with Stephanie Carty Lecture Room One – 30 max
      • Flashes about Nature: with John Brantingham Lecture Room Three – 20 max or outside

        • 3.45 – 4.15.pm

        • Tea break Dining Room
        • BOOKSHOP OPENTyndalls Room

        4.15 pm – 5.30 pm

        Workshops Sessions one hour and 15 mins

      • Performance Masterclass: with Nancy Stohlman Badger’s pouch (Bar) – 30 max
      • Panel on Strategies for Success in the novella-in-flash hosted by Michael Loveday with David Swann, Laura Besley and Deborah Tomkins Lecture Room One – 30 max
      • Under the microscope: The joys of writing very short stories: hosted by Sharon Telfer with Sara Hills, Marie Gethins and James Montgomery Lecture Room Two 30 max
    • Creative Visualisation session with Karen Jones Front Lounge 25 max

      • Creative Practice Exchange: panel hosted by Audrey Niven with Jeanette Sheppard Jen Rowe and Farhana Khalique
      Lecture Room Three 20 max

      5.30pm – 11.30 pm

      • Bar open (Badger’s Pouch)

      5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

      • BOOKSHOP OPEN until 6.15 pmTyndalls Room

      6.30 pm -7.30 pm

      • Dinner
        8.15 – 8.45 pm

      • Flash Ficton Readings by festival participants (lottery selectiom) introduced by Festival team member, Karen Jones. Dining Room

    Bar open until 11.30 pm to carry on socialising inside and outside. Karaoke entertainment organised by Helen Rye, with Christopher Allen. Chill out room for quiet conversation tba

    Sunday 20th July

    8.45 am – 9.45 am.
    Early morning hour-long workshops.

  • The Personal is Political: with Shelley Roches-Jaques Front Lounge – 30 max
  • Workshop with Nora Nadjarian Lecture Room One – 30 max
  • Borrowing and Stealing from the Classics: with Farhana Shaikh Lecture Room Two 30 max
  • Japanese Flash Fiction with a Twist: with Heidi Clark Lecture Room Three, 20 max

    • 9.45- am – 10.15 am

    • Tea. Dining room

    BOOKSHOP OPEN

    10.15 am – 10.20

    • Welcome to Sunday: with Jude Dining Room

    10.25 am – 10.55 am

    • A talk/book launch. Subject tba

    11.05 am – 12.35 pm
    Workshops/discussions one and a half hours.

    • Play it By Ear: with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One -30 max
    • The Giving and Taking of Feedback with Christopher Allen Lecture Room Two 30 max
    • Revolutionary Creativity: The Sustainable Artist’s Life as an Act of Resistance: with Nancy Stohlman Front Lounge- 30 max
    • ‘Seasons’ — National Flash Fiction reading and discussion session with Diane Simmons, Karen Jones and Ingrid Jendrzjewski Bar (Badger’s Pouch) 20 max listeners.
    • The Weird and Wonderful World of Flash…: with Vanessa Gebbie Lecture Roon Three – 20 max

      • 12.35 pm – 2.00 pm

      • Bar Open until 2.00 pm.
        BOOKSHOP Tyndalls Room open from 12.30 pm – 1.00 pm.

      1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

      • Lunch

      2.15 pm – 3.45pm workshops

    • Read,feedback,write, live feedback session facilitated by Audrey Niven. Badger’s Pouch (The Bar )- 30 max
    • Prose Poetry workshop with Carrie Etter Front Lounge 30 max
    • Creating Complex and Authentic Characters in the Novella in Flash: with Micheal Loveday Lecture Room One – 30 max
    • Transforming Tales: Hybrid forms and structures in flash fiction: with Farhana Khalique Lecture Room Three 20 max max
    • Hunting and Gathering: crafting flash from Found Sources: with Ingrid JendzrejewskiLecture Room Two – 30 max

      • 3.45 pm – 4.15 pm

      • Tea.BOOKSHOP OPEN

        • 4.15 pm – 4.45.

        • Raffle prizes drawn
        • Goodbyes Dining Room

    Please Note: As with any large event, this programme maybe subject to alteration.

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