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Alison Wassell

@alisonwassell

Short story, flash and micro fiction writer published by Fictive Dream, Bath Flash Fiction, Does It Have Pockets, The Disappointed Housewife, The Phare, NFFD, FlashFlood Journal and elsewhere. Highly Commended 2024 Bridport Prize (Flash Fiction).

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Fingers crossed for you too, James!

03.03.2026 15:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I see one of mine on there!!

03.03.2026 10:35 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0

Well done, Shelley!

27.02.2026 16:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Congratulations, Beth!

25.02.2026 09:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Absolutely thrilled to be published here, alongside so many great writers.

20.02.2026 16:25 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Sleepover Flash fiction by Alison Wassell

Thrilled to have my flash fiction piece published in Issue 4 of the wonderful @frazzledlit.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/authorjm...

11.01.2026 10:30 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Meet my first half readers at #WritersReading Novella-in-Flash special zoom Thu at 7pm UK: @patiencemackarness.bsky.social @alisonwassell.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social @jankaneen1.bsky.social and Adele Evershed. All welcome Book your free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/dubli...

16.12.2025 14:51 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 3

Yes please!

12.12.2025 13:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Adele!

12.11.2025 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Loved yours too. I remember it from Smokelong.

12.11.2025 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Matt!

12.11.2025 17:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

12.11.2025 15:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Alyson!

12.11.2025 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Kik!

12.11.2025 13:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Suzanne!

12.11.2025 13:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Belinda!

12.11.2025 13:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations to you too!

12.11.2025 13:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you. Congratulations to you too!

12.11.2025 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

12.11.2025 13:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, James!

12.11.2025 13:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Denise!

12.11.2025 13:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Nick!

12.11.2025 11:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Ani!

12.11.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for choosing it!

12.11.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Flash Fiction 2nd Place: Emily’s On Track by Alison Wassell - Flash 500 Emily’s on track. She’s reaching her milestones. Babbling, rolling, sitting, crawling, she does them all, just when she should, or before, more often than not. When she smiles for the first time, it’s...

So excited to have come second! flash500.com/flash-fictio...

12.11.2025 11:15 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 12 📌 1

Excited to have a story in here!

01.11.2025 09:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Black and white.

04.10.2025 16:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Delighted to have been shortlisted in this great competition.

12.09.2025 08:52 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

08.09.2025 10:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Shooter Flash: “The Chemistry of Friendship” by Alison Wassell It starts with us sharing a packet of cheese-and-onion crisps, and before we know it we’re sharing everything: sucking liquorice lozenges and laughing at our black tongues in the cloakroom mirror, …

Delighted to have won this month's Shooter Literary Magazine flash competition shooterlitmag.com/2025/09/08/t...

08.09.2025 08:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0