A real thrill to be included

In June I attended The Bath Flash Fiction Festival with two writer friends who are FF regulars and winners. There was a great line up of workshop leaders, speakers, writers and teachers of the short and short-short form – Vanessa Gebbie, Paul McVeigh, Tania Hershman, David Gaffney, David Swann, Ashley Chantler, Peter Blair, K M Elkes, Kit de Waal, Michael Loveday, Christopher Feilden, Calum Kerr, Jude Higgins and Meg Pokrass. I was quite nervous but it was brilliant and all attendees were invited to submit upto three entries for a FF anthology. Never expecting to get anywhere I sent off my three festival-inspired Flashes and was truly stunned when I received an e-mail from Jude Higgins, to say that one of my flashes had been accepted for the anthology! “Silent, and soft and slow descends” is a 250 word story. If you want to read it you will have to buy the book, which should be out by Christmas. Can’t wait to see it!