Our BSSA 2024 Anthology is now for sale from our publisher Ad Hoc Fiction and will be available from Amazon soon.
Eighteen fantastic stories of 2200 words or under. A marvellous variety, showing what can be achieved with the short form.This time, we have a blue/green back ground for the anthology with its strking collage pictur4e of a building in Bath, created by artist and former BSSA winner, Ele Nash.

Winning stories, by:
Connor Montague – first prize
Jane Fraser – second prize
Marie Gethins – third prize
Ruth Clarke – The Acorn Award for Unpublished fiction
Ben Howels – highly commended
Rob Campbell – highly commended and local prize

Shortlisted stories by:
Jay Mckenzie
Finola Cahill
Lynn Bushell
Debra A Daniel
Susan Elsley
Emily Devane
Karen Jones
Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Slawka G Scarso
Sallie Anderson
Emily McDonald
Anna Linstrum

Read more about the winning authors here
And the shortlisted authors here.

The anthology is being launched on Zoom on Thursday evening, 9th January from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm and you are welcome to come and listen to many of the authors read short extracts from their stories. These stories might also inspire you to enter our next award. Open for entries now and closing on 31st March, 2025. Shortlist judges literary agents Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold. Read our interview with them here.
If you would like to come to the launch, please contact us at bathshortstoryaward (at) gmail (dot) com