Jude Higgins
@judehwriter2.bsky.social
Founder Bath Flash Award, directs AdHocFiction + Flash Fiction Festival Flash collection Clearly Defined Clouds out now s/l Bridport x 4, s/l SmokeLong Mikey x2, Best Microfictions x2 Pushcart nominated
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Jude Higgins
@judehwriter2.bsky.social
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Jude Higgins
Writer, Tutor, Writing Events Organiser
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I updated my website judehiggins.com after 4 years of it languishing ! Now includes details of my books ‘Clearly Defined Clouds’ & ‘The Chemist’s House’ plus info on all my projects — @bathflashaward.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social &
Ad Hoc Fiction
Ad Hoc Fiction
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Wow! Thank you @scooterwriter.bsky.social for picking my story - I'm so pleased you liked it. And thank you @christopherallen.bsky.social for your ace Elements of Flash session which got this one going. And also to @judehwriter2.bsky.social for these wonderful GFFO days - looking forward to 21st!
The winning stories by @mackmckenna.bsky.social @words-outwest.bsky.social & @bsherm36.bsky.social from our 10th Jan online GFFO day are now posted. Congratulations! And thank you to all who entered www.flashfictionfestival.com/winners-janu...
Winners: January 10th GFFO writing challenge
The writing challenge for the January 10th online festival day mini contest was to write a story in three sections inspired by three snowy paintings by Henry Martin Glasser 1909-1981. The paintings…
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February 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Wow! Thank you @scooterwriter.bsky.social for picking my story - I'm so pleased you liked it. And thank you @christopherallen.bsky.social for your ace Elements of Flash session which got this one going. And also to @judehwriter2.bsky.social for these wonderful GFFO days - looking forward to 21st!
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Six hours till our 32nd Award ends & there’s the usual crazy party going on at The Last Minute Club! £1460 in prizes — results out fast —by the end of Feb
Bathflashfictionawardaward.com
Bathflashfictionawardaward.com
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February 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Six hours till our 32nd Award ends & there’s the usual crazy party going on at The Last Minute Club! £1460 in prizes — results out fast —by the end of Feb
Bathflashfictionawardaward.com
Bathflashfictionawardaward.com
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For those working out the right ending, beginning or middle of their story for our 32nd award here’s a picture i just took, in between rain clouds, of the full Snow Moon to inspire! bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
February 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
For those working out the right ending, beginning or middle of their story for our 32nd award here’s a picture i just took, in between rain clouds, of the full Snow Moon to inspire! bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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Thanks everyone who guessed the Last Minute Club badge yesterday! @anneh23.bsky.social won with a near perfect guess of burgundy & baby pink! See badge below. So she’ll be offered a BFFA anthology as a prize!
February 1, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Thanks everyone who guessed the Last Minute Club badge yesterday! @anneh23.bsky.social won with a near perfect guess of burgundy & baby pink! See badge below. So she’ll be offered a BFFA anthology as a prize!
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1st Feb. It’s the final day to enter our 1st Award this year. £1460 in prizes. The Last Minute Club is officially open! And here is the badge you should receive if you are a last minute entrant to the 32nd Award
February 1, 2026 at 6:32 AM
1st Feb. It’s the final day to enter our 1st Award this year. £1460 in prizes. The Last Minute Club is officially open! And here is the badge you should receive if you are a last minute entrant to the 32nd Award
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So chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social featuring names and storms, and also a super awkward neurodiverse interview in which I (cringe) say “more clearer or firmer” and that will now haunt me forever 😁 . flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
February 1, 2026 at 1:35 AM
So chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social featuring names and storms, and also a super awkward neurodiverse interview in which I (cringe) say “more clearer or firmer” and that will now haunt me forever 😁 . flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
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Still time to guess the colour of the Last minute badge today & win an anthology. And still time to enter a story of up to 300 words before the deadline of our 32nd Award tomorrow 1st Feb at midnight GMT
Bathflashfictionaward.com:enter
Bathflashfictionaward.com:enter
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January 31, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Still time to guess the colour of the Last minute badge today & win an anthology. And still time to enter a story of up to 300 words before the deadline of our 32nd Award tomorrow 1st Feb at midnight GMT
Bathflashfictionaward.com:enter
Bathflashfictionaward.com:enter
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Hmm…Blue and yellow? 🙂
January 31, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Hmm…Blue and yellow? 🙂
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Anyone wanting to guess the Last Min Club badge colour(s) l? it will only take you a minute & you could win an anthology. You don’t have to have entered
Today and tomorrow to enter our first £1460 prize fund award of 2026. Today’s the day you can guess the colour of The Last Minute Club badge which entrants tomorrow receive. Reply here with guesses & read all about it in Jude’s post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/01/everybody-loves-a-badge/
Everybody loves a badge
It’s the final day of our 32nd £1460 prize fund Award tomorrow, Sunday 1st February at midnight GMT. In case you didn’t know, we issue Last Minute Club badges to everyone entering on th…
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January 31, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Anyone wanting to guess the Last Min Club badge colour(s) l? it will only take you a minute & you could win an anthology. You don’t have to have entered
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Help to support Paragraph Planet and look great at the same time! T shirts, hoodies, bags and mugs available via the new Paragraph Planet store! paragraph-planet.teemill.com #writing #writinggifts #amwriting #writingcommunity
January 31, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Help to support Paragraph Planet and look great at the same time! T shirts, hoodies, bags and mugs available via the new Paragraph Planet store! paragraph-planet.teemill.com #writing #writinggifts #amwriting #writingcommunity
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January is over and we're delighted to thank #fiction authors: Scott Bolendz @fionajanemack.bsky.social @jaimegill.bsky.social @kiptain.bsky.social Mathieu Cailler Eva Rivers Louella Lester and Anna Schachner. Pls. click on the link below to check out their stories fictivedream.com/2026/01/
January 31, 2026 at 10:45 AM
January is over and we're delighted to thank #fiction authors: Scott Bolendz @fionajanemack.bsky.social @jaimegill.bsky.social @kiptain.bsky.social Mathieu Cailler Eva Rivers Louella Lester and Anna Schachner. Pls. click on the link below to check out their stories fictivedream.com/2026/01/
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Today and tomorrow to enter our first £1460 prize fund award of 2026. Today’s the day you can guess the colour of The Last Minute Club badge which entrants tomorrow receive. Reply here with guesses & read all about it in Jude’s post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/01/everybody-loves-a-badge/
Everybody loves a badge
It’s the final day of our 32nd £1460 prize fund Award tomorrow, Sunday 1st February at midnight GMT. In case you didn’t know, we issue Last Minute Club badges to everyone entering on th…
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Today and tomorrow to enter our first £1460 prize fund award of 2026. Today’s the day you can guess the colour of The Last Minute Club badge which entrants tomorrow receive. Reply here with guesses & read all about it in Jude’s post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/01/everybody-loves-a-badge/
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For the evening crowd!
Entries to our microfiction comp close on 15/2. This week Diane Simmons interviews another of our judges Debra A. Daniel @debdanthewriter.bsky.social — read about her experience on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’, her prizewinning NIF & much more: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
January 26, 2026 at 5:31 PM
For the evening crowd!
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ICYMI @frazzledlit.bsky.social
Delighted to have 2 stories in this amazing issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social What a treat to appear with so many stellar writers incl @elissafield.bsky.social @delgeo14.bsky.social @barbarabyar.bsky.social
Letting go www.frazzledlit.com/p/letting-go
Marie Kondo www.frazzledlit.com/p/and-now-i-...
Letting go www.frazzledlit.com/p/letting-go
Marie Kondo www.frazzledlit.com/p/and-now-i-...
January 25, 2026 at 9:14 PM
ICYMI @frazzledlit.bsky.social
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One week until the deadline of our 34th Award on 1st Feb. Judge, writerl, editor & acclaimed writing tutor @lunchontuesday.bsky.social co-director of @natflashfictionday.bsky.social. £1460 in prizes. Results out fast
Anthology. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
Anthology. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
January 25, 2026 at 9:52 PM
One week until the deadline of our 34th Award on 1st Feb. Judge, writerl, editor & acclaimed writing tutor @lunchontuesday.bsky.social co-director of @natflashfictionday.bsky.social. £1460 in prizes. Results out fast
Anthology. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
Anthology. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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Can you half a 600 worder you wrote and reveal more about your story? Read Jude’s post below with quotes from ‘Going Short’ by Nancy Stohlman. Our Award deadline is Feb 1st. Still time. £1000 top prize. Anthology. Results end of Feb.
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/01/goin...
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/01/goin...
January 23, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Can you half a 600 worder you wrote and reveal more about your story? Read Jude’s post below with quotes from ‘Going Short’ by Nancy Stohlman. Our Award deadline is Feb 1st. Still time. £1000 top prize. Anthology. Results end of Feb.
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/01/goin...
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/01/goin...
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If you missed our interviews with anthology editor Sharon Telfer @sharontelfer.bsky.social & micro judge Joanna Campbell @joannacampbell.bsky.social you can read below. Diane will be interviewing another micro judge on Monday: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
If you missed our interviews with anthology editor Sharon Telfer @sharontelfer.bsky.social & micro judge Joanna Campbell @joannacampbell.bsky.social you can read below. Diane will be interviewing another micro judge on Monday: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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ICYMI
This week’s interview is with microfiction judge David Swann @daveswann.bsky.social Read his advice on writing micros, his thoughts on which author he would go for a pizza with & much more. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
ICYMI
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Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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Thanks so much for reading and sharing, Pat
"As I stare at him, repulsed by his squirming and his helplessness, I realise I could ,,,"
@sagreene1.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
@sagreene1.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 63 : S A Greene
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January 21, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Thanks so much for reading and sharing, Pat
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Two weeks until our 32nd Award closes on Sunday Feb 1st. Judge Ingrid Jendrzejewski. @lunchontuesday.bsky.social
Up to 300 words
Double & triple entries discounted
£1460 prize fund
Results out end of Feb
Anthology publication offer god 50 longlisted
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
Up to 300 words
Double & triple entries discounted
£1460 prize fund
Results out end of Feb
Anthology publication offer god 50 longlisted
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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January 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Two weeks until our 32nd Award closes on Sunday Feb 1st. Judge Ingrid Jendrzejewski. @lunchontuesday.bsky.social
Up to 300 words
Double & triple entries discounted
£1460 prize fund
Results out end of Feb
Anthology publication offer god 50 longlisted
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
Up to 300 words
Double & triple entries discounted
£1460 prize fund
Results out end of Feb
Anthology publication offer god 50 longlisted
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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#Flash writers! Come join the Village that @smokelong.bsky.social has set up. There's info on journals, writers, great flash and we're just getting started 😍
Free to join, and who doesn't need a village???
Free to join, and who doesn't need a village???
Are you in need of a village? We are The Village with All of The Flash Writers. And here's the invitation link:
smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/191340...
smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/191340...
The Village
The village with all of the flash writers
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January 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
#Flash writers! Come join the Village that @smokelong.bsky.social has set up. There's info on journals, writers, great flash and we're just getting started 😍
Free to join, and who doesn't need a village???
Free to join, and who doesn't need a village???
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Big thanks to Ingrid Jendzrejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who has agreed to be our judge this time to replace John Brantingham who unexpectedly can’t do it. Read our interview with her. Great answers!
https:
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/judges/
https:
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/judges/
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January 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Big thanks to Ingrid Jendzrejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who has agreed to be our judge this time to replace John Brantingham who unexpectedly can’t do it. Read our interview with her. Great answers!
https:
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/judges/
https:
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/judges/
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Thank you thank you to EIC Camille Griep & the team at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for nominating my story for Best Small Fictions 2026.
It's set in East Berlin and celebrates the night the Berlin Wall came down: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
It's set in East Berlin and celebrates the night the Berlin Wall came down: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Thank you thank you to EIC Camille Griep & the team at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for nominating my story for Best Small Fictions 2026.
It's set in East Berlin and celebrates the night the Berlin Wall came down: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
It's set in East Berlin and celebrates the night the Berlin Wall came down: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
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Another one of two new stories (my first pubs of 2026) from the always tasty Gooseberry Pie!
January 10, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Another one of two new stories (my first pubs of 2026) from the always tasty Gooseberry Pie!