2.00 pm onwards

Registration and accommodation check-in at Reception in Trinity College (Old Building Main Entrance)

NB Check-in for accomodation is open at 2.00 pm Trinity College until 9.00 pm All those with accommodation will receive more info via email

2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

Bookshop open, plus meet and greet for new comers in the Tyndall Room.

2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Exploring Wildly Unconventional Points of View: Pre-Festival Workshop with Kathy Fish, Dining Room
Note : those attending the pre-festival workshop (booked in advance) need to arrive before 1.45 pm to register for the workshop.

2.00 pm – 11.00 pm

Bar open (Badger’s Pouch) run by Trinity College.

5.00 pm -5.30 pm Meet and Greet for newcomers (in Badger’s Pouch)

5.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Friday meals. For those who have ordered in advance. Served outside on lawn adjacent to the bar.

6.30 pm – 6.45 pm

Welcome and introduction by Jude Dining Room

6.45pm – 7.30pm

Readings from the 2025 Flash Fiction Festival Anthology introduced by Festival Director, Jude Higgins and Festival Team member Karen Jones, Dining Room

Break
7.40 pm – 8.00 pm.

Readings by writers who have travelled far! Dining Room

8.00 pm – 8.30 pm

Launch of the winning novellas-in-flash from the 2025 BFFA Novella-in-Flash Award introduced by Jude Dining Room

8.30 pm till late – socialising in the bar (Badger’s Pouch) and outside. )..
The bar is open until 11.00 pm

8.45 am – 9.45 am
Early morning hour-long workshops.

• From Zero to Nifty in 60 minutes:with Fiona McKay Lecture Room One 30 max
• The Whisper and the Roar: Writing on Water: with Judy Darley Front Lounge – 30 max
• Heavenly Mud with Jet Rotmans, the Dalton Room 10 max
• Workshop with Alison Powell lecture room two 30 max
• Another episode from 52 exercises for readers and writers: with Rosaleen Lynch: Lecture Room Three 20 max

9.45 am – 10.15 am

• Coffee/tea in Dining Room. Meet and Greet for anyone who has not come before
  Bookshop Open

10.15 am – 10.25 am
• Welcome, information about the weekend events including introduction to workshop facilitators. Dining Room

10.30 am – 11.00 am

• ‘The Biggest Word Cricket in the Whole Wide World’. with Vanessa Gebbie. The traditional half-an-hour warm-up writing workshop for the entire assembly. Dining Room.

11.05 am – 12.35 pm
Workshop Session One. One and a half hours.

• Let’s Play! Creative Games for Sparking Fresh Ideas: with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One – 30 Max
• The Personal is Political: with Shelley Roches-Jacques Lecture Room One
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Flash: with David Swann Front Lounge 30 max
• Hurt So Good: Sex and Emotional Vulnerability with Sara Hills Badger’s Pouch (the bar) 30 max
• >Does A Story Need Conflict To Work? Rethinking the ‘golden rule’ of narrative: with K M Elkes Lecture Room Three 20 max
  12.35 – 1.00 pm

• Bookshop open

12.35 pm – 1.45 pm Bar open

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

• Lunch. Dining Room

2.15 pm – 3.45 pm 90 min workshops

• The Ripple Effect: How to use negative space to expand your flash with David Schuman Lecture Room Two – 30 max
• HIDDEN RIVERS: Writing the Underground with Susmita Bhattachary in Badger’s Pouch (the bar) – 30 max
• Reading like a Writer: with Alison Woodhouse Front Lounge – 30 max
• Workshop with Stephanie Carty Lecture Room One – 30 max
• Life in Fragments: Using flash for Longer form CNF with Marie Gethins Lecture Room Three 20 max

3.45 – 4.15.pm

• Tea break Dining Room
• Bookshop openTyndalls Room

4.15 pm – 5.30 pm

Panels, discussions art: one hour and 15 mins

• Panel on Historical Flash with Diane Simmons, Jupiter Jones and Fiona J Mackintosh Badger’s Pouch, the Bar 30 max
• How to Haibun Roberta Beary Lecture Room Two – 20 max
• Paper, Scissors and Glue: Make a Zine of your work: with Heidi Clark Dalton Room max 10
• Creative Visualisation session with Karen Jones Front Lounge 25 max

5.30pm – 11.30 pm

• Bar open (Badger’s Pouch)

5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

• Bookshop open until 6.15 pmTyndalls Room

6.30 pm -7.30 pm

• Evening Meal
7.45pm – 8.00 pm.
• Announcement of the Pokrass Prize Winner and Two Runners Up Dining Room
• 8.00 pm – 8.30 pm
• Launch of and readings from 2025 Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology introduced by Jude and Karen Dining Room

Bar open 8.30 pm until 11.00 pm to carry on socialising inside and outside.

8.45 am – 9.45 am.
Early morning hour-long workshops.

Art and flash with Anika CarpenterLecture Room One – 30 max

This Is Not Just a Key – Writing Micro & Flash Through Everyday Objects: with Nora Nadjarian Lecture Room Two- 30 max

Isolation is Your Flash Friend: with Gillian O’Shaughnessy Front Lounge 30 max

Reach for the Stars with Jude Higgins Lecture Room Three, 20 max

9.45- am – 10.15 am

• Tea. Dining room

Bookshop open

10.15 am – 10.20

• Welcome to Sunday: with Jude Dining Room

10.25 am – 10.55 am

• Writing to A Theme: A talk about and readings from the 2025 NFFD Anthology on the theme of Bridges: with NFFD Director, Diane Simmons and anthology editor, Karen Jones The Dining Room

11.05 am – 12.35 pm
Workshops/discussions one and a half hours.

• Let’s Play! Creative Games for Sparking Fresh Ideas: with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One -30 max
• Prose Poetry workshop with Carrie EtterFront Lounge- 30 max
• Still Lives: Exploring Stillness, movement and resonance in Flash Fiction: with Farhana Khalique Lecture Room Two Max 30
• Workshop with Vanessa Gebbie Lecture Roon Three – 20 max

12.35 pm – 2.00 pm

• Bar Open until 2.00 pm.
  Bookshop open from 12.30 pm – 1.00 pm Tyndalls Room

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

• Lunch

2.15 pm – 3.45pm workshops

• Writing with the Whole Body: with Ingrid Jendzrejewski Front Lounge 30 max
• Workshop with Emily Devane Lecture Room Two 30 max
• Putting Together A Flash Fiction Collection: Is there ever a right time?: with Kathryn Aldridge Morris Lecture Room Three 20 max
• Writing the Unexpected with Flash: Finnian Burnett Lecture Room Two – 30 max<

3.45 pm – 4.15 pm

• Tea.Bookshop open

4.15 pm – 4.45.

• Raffle prizes drawn
• Goodbyes Dining Room