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 from a choice of three: chicken tikka, beef or vegetarian/vegan chili with sides–cooked and served outside in the grounds More details here.

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.

• Workshop with Anika Carpenter Lecture Room One – 30 max
• Workshop with Judy Darley Front Lounge – 30 max
• Lecture Room Three – 20 max
• Workshop with Kathryn Aldridge MorrisLecture Room Two – 30 max

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.

• Workshop with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One – 30 Max
• Workshop with Finnian Burnett Lecture Room Two – 30 max
• Workshop with Ingrid JendzrejewskiLecture Room Three – 20 max
• Workshop with Alison Woodhouse Front Lounge
• Workshop 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

• Workshop on 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
• Workshop with Emily Devane Front Lounge – 30 max
• The Dark Side: Workshop with Stephanie Carty in Lecture Room One. 30 max
• Workshop on Flash in Nature with John Brantingham Lecture room two (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

• Nancy Performance session Badger’s pouch (Bar) – 30 max
• Panel on Strategies for Success in the novella in Flash chaired by Michael Loveday with David Swann, Laura Besley and Deborah Tomkins Lecture Room One – 30 max
• Panel on writing the 100 word micro chaired by Sharon Telfer with Sara Hills, Marie Gethins and James Montgomery Lecture Room Two
• Visualisation session with Karen Jones Front Lounge (25 max)

Panel on Creative Crossovers chaired 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
7.45pm – 8.15 pm.
• Announcement of the Pokrass Prize Winner and two runners up Dining Room
• Mini book launch Subject to be decided Dining Room
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

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

Workshop with Shelley Roches-Jaques Front Lounge – 30 max

Workshop with Nora Nadjarian Lecture Room One – 30 max

Workshop on Borrowing and Stealing from the Classics with Farhana Shaikh Lecture Room Two 30 max

Workshop to be announced 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.

• Workshop with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One -30 max
• The Giving and Taking of Feedback with Christopher Allen Lecture Room Two 30 max
• Think tank Forum with Nancy Stohlman Front Lounge- 30 max
• National Flash Fiction reading and discussion session with Diane Simmons, Karen Jones and Ingrid Jendrzjewski Bar (Badger’s Pouch) 20 max listeners
• Workshop with Vanessa Gebbie Lecture Roon Three – 30 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

• Reading Session with live feedback facilitated by Audrey Niven. Badger’s Pouch (The Bar )- 30 max
• Prose Poetry workshop with Carrie Etter Front Lounge 30 max
• Workshop with Michael Loveday Lecture Room One – 30 max
• Workshop with Farhana Khalique Lecture Room Two – 20 max

3.45 pm – 4.15 pm

• Tea.BOOKSHOP OPEN

4.15 pm – 4.45.

• Raffle prizes drawn
• Goodbyes Dining Room