"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 Thursday 16th July. 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 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.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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