"Sell out warning! A bite-sized blast of women’s micro-fiction to warm you up for this year’s Flash Fiction Festival. East Bristol Books brings together a selection of award-winning, razor-sharp flash storytellers from across the globe – Bristol’s own Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, WA’s Gillian O’Shaughnessy and the Bay Area’s Patricia Q. Bidar."
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A event on Today. The event starts at 19:00.
Join us at East Bristol Books for a taster of this year’s Flash Fiction Festival --kicking off the following day at Trinity College, Stoke Bishop-- with two of its featured authors: Kathryn Aldridge-Morris (UK) and Gillian O’Shaughnessy (Australia).
Bios:
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is a Bristol-based writer. Her flash fiction has won several awards
including the Bath Flash Fiction award and Manchester Writing School’s QuietManDave
Prize and been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies. Her collection COLD
TOAST was selected as Book of the Month by the Republic of Consciousness Prize and
recently shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award.
Gillian O’Shaughnessy is an award-winning author of flash fiction from Walyalup/Fremantle in Australia. She spent 25 years as a presenter and journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, curated Perth Writers Festival and judged the prestigious Australian Stella Prize. Her flash fiction has been widely anthologised, including the international Best Small Fictions 23 – 25. She has won the London Independent Story Prize, the UK Welkin Prize and the Fractured Literary Anthology Prize, among others. She is a submissions editor for US journal, SmokeLong Quarterly. Her debut collection Salt City Runaway was published in May 2026 with Night Parrot Press and is now in its second print run.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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