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Flash Fiction: I am the Painter’s Daughter by 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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Flash Fiction: Count the Words, Hold your Breath by Aki Schilz

Aki Schilz

Count the Words, Hold your Breath by Aki Schilz Winner of the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014 You could be any one of my lovers: they all look the same when I’m lonely (count them). * I... Read More...

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Contents: Issue 5 – March 2015

Robert Harper

Issue 5 Contents Bare Fiction Magazine Issue 5 Poetry | Fiction | Theatre | Articles Published April 10th 2015 Buy your copy now or subscribe to get three issues in print or digital edit... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: The Ice House by Jane Roberts

Jane Roberts

The Ice House by Jane Roberts “The ice house is where they send you to cool off...” In the grounds of the Georgian manor – now a communal carcass stuffed with families meandering from the... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: Missing My Liar by Tania Hershman

Tania Hershman

Missing My Liar by Tania Hershman Am I missing my liar? she says. What was the last lie? she says. Oh yes, she says, I remember. That was the car, she says. A bad lie, she says, outbreathi... Read More...

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Rough guide to submissions

Robert Harper

I thought I'd make a rough map of where our submissions have come from over these first 14 months of Bare Fiction Magazine. I find it fascinating. It's an approximation of course, particularly as so m... Read More...

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Moving to submission windows

Robert Harper

It's been great having submissions open all year round and seeing the number of submissions increase each month. Of course that means it takes more time to read all those submissions but that's the ex... Read More...

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Podcast #8: Short Story from Carly Holmes

Carly Holmes and Robert Harper

Short story reading from Carly Holmes. Carly Holmes reads her short story from Issue 2 of the magazine. The Black Night Long and shares an extract from her first novel, The Scrapbook (Parthian Book... Read More...

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Podcast #6: Short Fiction from Tania Hershman

Tania Hershman and Robert Harper

Short story/flash fiction reading by Tania Hershman. Tania Hershman’s short fictions have won her many prizes. She is a consummate author of extraordinary brief fiction that for me, crosses the bou... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: Ophelia Redux by Martin Porter

Martin Porter

Ophelia Redux by Martin Porter It has been an angry winter. Deep blue horizons shudder beneath deeper clouds. Hoar shattered twigs twist upward where they fell, grasping for an unrelenting... Read More...

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Infographic: Submitted vs Published

Robert Harper

By way of an attempt to explain why issue 3 of the magazine is going to be out slightly later than planned, I thought I'd share some interesting statistics with you regarding the number of writers sub... Read More...

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Contents: Issue 3 – July 2014

Robert Harper

Issue 3 Contents Bare Fiction Magazine Issue 3 Poetry | Fiction | Theatre | Articles Published August 26th 2014 Buy your copy now or subscribe to get three issues in print or digital ed... Read More...

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

Flash Fiction: Count the Words, Hold your Breath by Aki Schilz

Contents: Issue 5 – March 2015

Flash Fiction: The Ice House by Jane Roberts

Flash Fiction: Missing My Liar by Tania Hershman

Rough guide to submissions

Moving to submission windows

Podcast #8: Short Story from Carly Holmes

Podcast #6: Short Fiction from Tania Hershman

Flash Fiction: Ophelia Redux by Martin Porter

Infographic: Submitted vs Published

Contents: Issue 3 – July 2014

Poetry: Letters to Brazil by Paul Stephenson

Poetry: Wooden doll, total being by Jenna Clake

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

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