Weekend Timetable 2025

Friday Afternoon/Evening 18th July

2.00 pm onwards

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

    • NB Check-in for accomodation is open at 2.00 pm Trinity College until 9.00 pm and at Churchill Halls from 3.00 pm until 10.00 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

  • Pre-Festival Workshop with Kathy Fish, Flash Magic: Conjuring Beauty & Originality 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

  • Launch of and readings from the 2024 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 selected for Best Small Fictions 2024. Dining Room

    • 8.00 pm – 8.30 pm

  • Launch of the three 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. ). Festival Karaoke in the bar, hosted by Helen Rye and Christopher Allen. (There’ll be a space for quiet conversation in the lounge in Clifton House, adjacent to the bar).
      The bar is open until 11.00 pm and karaoke will finish then.

    Saturday 19th July

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

    • Art and Flash: with Anika Carpenter Lecture Room One – 30 max
    • Unlocking Your Fairy Tale Toolkit: with Judy Darley Front Lounge – 30 max
    • Precious Jewels: with Jude Higgins Lecture Room Three – 20 max
    • Building a Flash Fiction Collection: with Kathryn Aldridge MorrisLecture Room Two, 30 max
    • 52 Stories for Readers and Writers with Rosaleen Lynch 15 max Dalton Room

    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.

      • Play it By Ear: with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One – 30 Max
      • Packing an Emotional Punch: with Finnian Burnett Lecture Room Two – 30 max
      • A Sense of Wonder: with David Swann Front Lounge 30 max
      • The Stories in your Phone: with K M Elkes Badger’s Pouch (the bar) 30 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

    • Transforming Setting into Place: with Damian Dressick Lecture Room Two – 30 max
    • The Female Gothic in Flash Fiction: with Susmita Bhattacharya in Badger’s Pouch (the bar) – 30 max
    • Lost and Found: Using Objects to Bring the Past to Life; with Emily Devane Front Lounge – 30 max
    • The Dark Side: Workshop with Stephanie Carty Lecture Room One – 30 max

      • 3.45 – 4.15.pm

      • Tea break Dining Room
      • Bookshop openTyndalls Room

      4.15 pm – 5.30 pm

      Panels and discussions: one hour and 15 mins

    • Performance Masterclass: with Nancy Stohlman Badger’s pouch (Bar) 30 max
    • Panel on Strategies for Success in the novella-in-flash hosted by Michael Loveday with David Swann, Laura Besley and Deborah Tomkins Lecture Room One – 30 max
    • Under the microscope: The joys of writing very short stories: hosted by Sharon Telfer with Sara Hills, Marie Gethins and James Montgomery Lecture Room Two 30 max
    • 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.

        • 8.00 pm – 8.30 pm
      • Launch of and readings from The Constancy of Woodpigeons 2024 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. Karaoke entertainment organised by Helen Rye, with Christopher Allen. Chill out room for quiet conversation in the lounge in Clifton House, adjacent to the bar).

    Sunday 20th July

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

  • The Personal is Political: with Shelley Roches-Jaques Lecture Room One – 30 max
  • Truth, Lies and the Unreliable Narrator: with Nora Nadjarian Lecture Room Two- 30 max
  • Borrowing and Stealing from the Classics: with Farhana Shaikh Front Lounge 30 max
  • Japanese Flash Fiction with a Twist: with Heidi Clark Lecture Room Three, 20 max
  • Heavenly Mud: a drawing and writing session with Jet Rotmans The Dalton Room. 15 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 Seasons: 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.

    • Play it By Ear: with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One -30 max
    • Revolutionary Creativity: The Sustainable Artist’s Life as an Act of Resistance: with Nancy Stohlman Front Lounge- 30 max
    • Take Inspiration from Virginia Woolf – Use Movement, Flux and Colour To Make Your Flash Shimmer: with S.A. Greene Lecture Room Two Max 30
    • The Weird and Wonderful World of Flash: 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

    • Read,feedback,write, live feedback session facilitated by Audrey Niven. The Dalton Room 15 max
    • The Star in the Room: Improving your Prose poems: with Carrie Etter Front Lounge 30 max
    • Creating Complex and Authentic Characters in the Novella in Flash: with Micheal Loveday Lecture Room One – 30 max
    • Transforming Tales: Hybrid forms and structures in flash fiction: with Farhana Khalique 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

    Please Note: As with any large event, this programme maybe subject to alteration.

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