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 three of its featured authors: Kathryn Aldridge-Morris (UK), Gillian O’Shaughnessy (Australia) and Patricia Q. Bidar (US). https://www.flashfictionfestival.com/ Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is a Bristol-based writer of short fiction and creative nonfiction. Her work has won several awards including the Bath Flash Fiction award and Manchester Writing School’s QuietManDave Prize and appeared in over 70 literary magazines and anthologies. Her debut flash fiction collection *Cold Toast* (Dahlia Books) was selected as Book of the Month by the Republic of Consciousness Prize and listed in their ‘Best Small Press Fiction of 2025’. Gillian O’Shaughnessy is an award-winning author of flash fiction. She spent 25 years as a broadcaster and senior journalist with the ABC. Her flash fiction has been widely anthologised, including the international Best Small Fictions 23 – 25. She has won several prizes for her work, including the London Independent Story Prize, the UK Welkin Prize, the US Fractured Literary Anthology Prize, among others. She is a submissions editor for US flash narrative journal, SmokeLong Quarterly. Her debut collection, *Salt City Runaway* will be published by Night Parrot Press in May 2026. Patricia Q. Bidar is a western U.S. writer and Port of Los Angeles area native. She is the author of the flash fiction collection *Pardon Me for Moonwalking* (2025, Unsolicited Press) and the novelette *Wild Plums* (2024, ELJ Editions). Patricia’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals including Wigleaf, Painted Bride Quarterly, Another Chicago, Waxwing, The Pinch, and Smokelong Quarterly, and been selected for *Flash Fiction America* (W.W. Norton), *Best Small Fictions*, and *Best Microfiction* anthologies. She lives, writes, and reads in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit www.patriciaqbidar.com

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