Short Story: Sandgrown by Sarah Brooks

Sarah Brooks

Flash Fiction: Growing Things by Wendy W. Ralph

Wendy W. Ralph

Short Story: The Old Rehearsal Rooms by Clare Weze

Clare Weze

Flash Fiction: On the Night the T4 Visa Student Invites Me Back by Eluned Gramich

Eluned Gramich

Short Story: Luisa the Unforgotten by Julia Ballerini

Julia Ballerini

Fiction

Flash Fiction and Short Stories from the pages of Bare Fiction Magazine.

Flash Fiction: Hettie by David Lea

David Lea

Hettie by David Lea Highly Commended in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015 I was never that keen on sex. I mean, it was all right, but the earth never moved for me, really. I mean I didn... Read More...

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Short Story: Homo Bile Pen by John Wilks

John Wilks

Homo Bile Pen by John Wilks 3rd Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Short Story 2015 3.30 a.m. A large concrete wrecking ball swings silently across Simon’s classroom. His Year 10 pupils stare at ... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: The Mill on the River Drewenz by Peter Justin Newall

Peter Justin Newall

The Mill on the River Drewenz by Peter Justin Newall 3rd Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015 In Barczewo the gypsies are playing music today, says Kallweit. They have a master fi... Read More...

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Short Story: This is Unravel by Niamh MacCabe

Niamh MacCabe

This is Unravel by Niamh MacCabe 2nd Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Short Story 2015 There is a woman in a green dress, kneeling at the sea’s edge. There is howling, calling. The child want... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: The Whittling of Animals by Maggie Veness

Maggie Veness

The Whittling of Animals by Maggie Veness 2nd Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015 Kept ya kids outa sight and ya trap shut whenever Charlie come home lookin mad. Served him suppe... Read More...

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Short Story: The Sea in Me by Krishan Coupland

Krishan Coupland

The Sea in Me by Krishan Coupland Winner of the Bare Fiction Prize for Short Story 2015 Sometimes in the bath I plunge my head under the water and will the scars on my neck to open wide like mout... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: The Lesson by Eleanor Hooker

Eleanor Hooker

The Lesson by Eleanor Hooker Winner of the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015 When Brother John lumbers into class on Monday morning, the boys sit straight at their desks. They measure his m... Read More...

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Short Story: The Walkers by Ayibu Makolo

Ayibu Makolo

The Walkers by Ayibu Makolo It is an especially humid day. The air is stifling and rivulets of sweat run down my back and stain my white shirt. ‘Ma, why don’t we open the window? This he... Read More...

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Short Story: The Present by Jenni Lawson

Jenni Lawson

The Present by Jenni Lawson Highly Commended in the Bare Fiction Prize for Short Story 2014 Rows of pebbledash houses the colour of dirty spit, to match the sky and the scunnered brown hills that a... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: 10:59:59 by Christopher North

Christopher North

10:59:59 by Christopher North Third Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014 fluorescent tubes were flickering in the executive suite. The central gutter had backed up half its length... Read More...

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Short Story: The Clay Baby by Anne Corlett

Anne Corlett

The Clay Baby by Anne Corlett Third Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Short Story 2014 It sometimes felt as though I was marrying his mother, not him at all. We’d been planning on waiting a whil... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: I am the Painter’s Daughter by Kit De Waal

Kit de Waal

I am the Painter’s Daughter by Kit De Waal Second Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014 At the harbour, where island boys gather to trade cigarettes and obscenities, where trawler-... Read More...

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Short Story: Sandgrown by Sarah Brooks

Flash Fiction: Growing Things by Wendy W. Ralph

Short Story: The Old Rehearsal Rooms by Clare Weze

Flash Fiction: On the Night the T4 Visa Student Invites Me Back by Eluned Gramich

Short Story: Luisa the Unforgotten by Julia Ballerini

Fiction

Flash Fiction: Hettie by David Lea

Short Story: Homo Bile Pen by John Wilks

Flash Fiction: The Mill on the River Drewenz by Peter Justin Newall

Short Story: This is Unravel by Niamh MacCabe

Flash Fiction: The Whittling of Animals by Maggie Veness

Short Story: The Sea in Me by Krishan Coupland

Flash Fiction: The Lesson by Eleanor Hooker

Short Story: The Walkers by Ayibu Makolo

Short Story: The Present by Jenni Lawson

Flash Fiction: 10:59:59 by Christopher North

Short Story: The Clay Baby by Anne Corlett

Flash Fiction: I am the Painter’s Daughter by Kit De Waal

Poetry: Letters to Brazil by Paul Stephenson

Poetry: Wooden doll, total being by Jenna Clake

Poetry: There’s chaos in my cornflakes by William Gee

Short Story: Sandgrown by Sarah Brooks

Flash Fiction: Growing Things by Wendy W. Ralph

Short Story: The Old Rehearsal Rooms by Clare Weze

Bare Fiction Prize 2017 Results

Contents: Issue 10 – November 2017

Contents: Issue 9 – April 2017