Allison Symes

I'm Allison Symes. I write flash fiction and short stories and describe what I write as fairytales with bite/quirky fiction.

I have been published online and in print by Bridge House Publishing, Cafelit, Iron Press and Chapeltown Books, who published my first flash fiction collection, From Light to Dark and Back Again in 2017. I'm currently working on further flash fiction collections and a novel.

My most recent story to be published was the 1000 worder The Professional, which has just been released in ebook form by Bridge House Publishing as one of the 15 winners of the 2019 Waterloo Arts Festival Writing Competition. The theme was Transforming Being (also the name of the ebook) and the 15 writers took the topic in 15 different ways!

Two of my flash fiction stories, Dignity and Injustice, and The Art Critic will be appearing in The Best of Cafelit 8 due out in December 2019.

I also blog for Chandler's Ford Today, an online community magazine, and usually on topics of interest to other writers.