John Holland writes.

Short fiction writer, events organiser, editor, publisher and obsessive

Published Short Stories

 

 

I've listed my published or broadcast stories in chronological order, the latest at the top.

Additionally here is my Amazon page.

2023

Creation

Hoochie Coochie - Ellipsis Zine 13 (print and digital versions)

April 2023

2022

The Call of Owls

National Flash Fiction Flash Flood 2022

June 2022

The Call of Owls

The Outposted Project - Missives from Isolation 2020-22 (print anthology)

May 2022

2021

A Madness

81 Words: Flash Fiction Anthology (print anthology published by Victorina Press)

December 2021

Da

To Hull And Back Anthology 2021 (print anthology)

December 2021

Booboo

The Weight of Feathers - Retreat West print anthology

September 2021

Author Profile/Interview

Cranked Anvil (online publisher)

July 2021

Golden Hoopoe

Ellipsis Zine - online lit mag

January 2021

2020

M is for Mingus - a Dialogue

Riot Act (online lit mag) Issue Two

December 2020

The Most Beautiful Thing She Has Ever Seen

The First Cranked Anvil Short Story Anthology (print anthology)

November 2020

Woman Driving Man Sleeping

The Last Goodbye - 2020 Worcestershire Literary Festival Flash Fiction Anthology (print anthology published by Black Pear Press)

October 2020

The Man I Love

The Last Goodbye - 2020 Worcestershire Literary Festival Flash Fiction Anthology (print anthology published by Black Pear Press)

October 2020

The Most Beautiful Thing She has Ever Seen

Truffle online literary magazine Issue Two

September 2020

A Visit to the Pet Shop

Storgy (online literary magazine)

August 2020

Flat Screen

The Phare (online lit mag)

August 2020

Orly

‘Good on Paper’ magazine

August 2020

The Day of the March

Spelk (online journal)

June 2020

The River (YouTube broadcast read by the actor Bill Ward)

Bath Story Friday (online broadcast)

June 2020

For the Kid

Videoed and broadcast by Bath Story Friday

April 2020

The Winner

Ellipsis Zine online literary journal

April 2020

2019

The Hero

2019 To Hull And Back Short Story Anthology

November 2019

The Note

Trading Places - the 2019 Momaya Press Review/Anthology

November 2019

The Call of Owls

Reflex Fiction

October 2019

Nature Implores

The Real Jazz Baby - Reflex Fiction Volume Two (Reflex Press print anthology)

July 2019

The River

Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival online blog

July 2019

You’ll be alright

National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood Journal

June 2019

A Visit from the Vampires

‘Unsafe Spaces’ anthology published by Earlyworks Press

May 2019

Dogs - A Fairy Tale

The Cabinet of Heed Issue 19 - online literary journal

April 2019

The Hero

The Cabinet of Heed Issue 16 - online literary journal

January 2019

2018

Keith

The Molotov Cocktail - US online literary zine. Volume 9 Issue 12.

December 2018


Rats

Records, Rivers and Rats (Earlyworks Press anthology)

December 2018


In Confidence

Records, Rivers and Rats (Earlyworks Press anthology)

December 2018


It Doesn’t Exist

Records, Rivers and Rats (Earlyworks Press anthology)

December 2018


Modern Life

Records, Rivers and Rats (Earlyworks Press anthology)

December 2018


Lips

To Hull And Back Anthology 2018

October 2018


Islands

The Cabinet of Heed - Issue 12

September 2018

 

Nature Implores

Reflex Fiction (website)

August 2018

 

Cows

Dorset Fiction Award website - First Prize Winner

July 2018

 

The Ten Tests of Secret Love

Coleford Festival of Words 2018 website

July 2018

 

An Unexpected Fall of Snow

National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood Journal (online)

June 2018

 

A Madness

81 Words website. It's Number 381.

June 2018

 

The Feather

Barely Casting a Shadow - Reflex Fiction Anthology Volume One

May 2018

 

The Valley

Barely Casting a Shadow - Reflex Fiction Anthology Volume One

May 2018

 

Suppose

Cabinet of Heed online literary journal Edition No.8

May 2018

 

You're Very Beautiful

Cabinet of Heed Science Fiction Special

April 2018

 

Fat Man

The Molotov Cocktail (US Online zine) Volume 8 Issue 17

March 2018

 

Orly

Deceiving Light - Short Stories from The Dorset Fiction Award Volume One

March 2018

 

How to Improve Productivity

Deceiving Light  - Short Stories from The Dorset Fiction Award Volume One

March 2018

 

Lips

 Audio recording of me reading before a lovely audience in Burdalls Yard in Bath on 9 March 2018 for Story Friday

March 2018

 

Boyfriends

Ellipsis Zine Two (Literary journal available in print or digitally)

March 2018

 

Iodine

The Bangor Literary Journal Issue One PAGE 62

March 2018

 

This Dark Window

Published and illustrated by artist Bonnie Helen Hawkins on her website

February 2018

 

Parliamentary Statistics

The Cabinet of Heed online literary journal

February 2018

 

2017

 

The First Time at her Place

Origami Poems and Towering Stories: Poetry and Flash Fiction 2017 (print anthology) published by Earlyworks Press

December 2017

 

The Guy at the bar

Wired - 2017 WorcsLitFest Flash Fiction Anthology

November 2017

 

You were in need of money

Wired - 2017 WorcsLitFest Flash Fiction Anthology

November 2017

 

Skin

Wired - 2017 WorcsLitFest Flash Fiction Anthology

November 2017

 

How to Improve Productivity

Dorset Fiction Award

November 2017

 

In Those Days

Reflex Fiction (website)

October 2017

 

Interview with me/Author Profile

Chris Hill's website

September 2017

 

The Feather

Reflex Fiction (website)

September 2017

 

Tropical Fish

101Words (website)

August 2017

 

Combining

Reflex Fiction (website)

August 2017

 

Orly

Dorset Fiction Award

July 2017

 

The River

National Flash Fiction Day Flash Journal

June 2017

 

Belinda's Diets

New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day Micro Madness website

June 2017

 

The Note

Twisted Tales 2016 anthology published by Raging Aardvark

June 2017

 

That Summer

Apples, Shadows and Light - short stories and flash fiction (published by Earlyworks Press)

May 2017

 

Easily Embarrassed

Apples, Shadows and Light - short stories and flash fiction (published by Earlyworks Press)

May 2017

 

The Valley

Reflex Fiction website

May 2017

 

Da

InkTears website (£1,000 First Prize Winner)

March 2017

 

2016

 

Time We Moved On

101Words (US website)

December 2016

 

The Crow

Cache of Flashes - The 2016 Worcestershire Literary Festival Flash Fiction Anthology published by Black Pear Press

November 2016

 

The Coat

Cache of Flashes - the 2016 Worcestershire Literary Festival Flash Fiction Anthology published by Black Pear Press

November 2016

 

The Night Ape

To Hull and Back Anthology 2016

October 2016

 

Christmas

National Flash Fiction Day's Flash Flood Journal (website)

June 2016

 

The Note

Annie on Writing/Raging Aardvark (website)

June 2016

 

Sunday Morning

A Box of Stars Under the Bed - 2016 National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology

June 2016

 

4 x flash fictions (Moustache, Belinda's Diets, Anti-Aging Acid and Treacle)

The Ball of the Future ( anthology). Edited by Kay Green. Earlyworks Press.

March 2016

 

Three Legs

101Words (US website)

January 2016

 

2015

 

Sensitive + A Hot Summer's Day + The Banker (3 stories)

A Stash of Flashes - The Worcestershire Literary Festival 2015 Anthology. Black Pear Press.

November 2015

 

Lips

Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2015

Watch/listen to me read a minute and a half of the story at the 2015 Bath Short Story Anthology Launch here.

November 2015

 

Strange Fruit - An Imagining

Crossroads - Defining Moments. Anthology for the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2015.

Watch the video of the actor Moses Hardwick reading the story at the Cheltenham Literature Festival here 

October 2015

 

Kate Adie is 69 + Kiss? + I Gave My heart + A Hot Summer's Day (4 pieces)

H is for Hawkesbury - 2015 Hawkesbury Upton Literary Festival Anthology

August 2015

 

Friends

National Flash Flood Journal (website)

June 2015

 

The Note

National Flash Flood Journal (website)

June 2015

 

The Shore Line

 Flash Flood Journal (website)

April 2015

 

The Uncanny Valley

Stroud Short Stories 2011-15 (anthology) edited by Nimue Brown

April 2015  (first Read at Stroud Short Stories October 2012)

 

The Open Door

Writing Short Fiction (website)

February 2015

 

Morning Tea (+ Writing Endings in Short Fiction - article)

Writing Short Fiction (website)

January 2015

 

2014

 

Teen Idol

2K Stories (website)

November 2014

 

The Path Way

Fifty Flashes of Fiction - Worcestershire Literary Festival Anthology. Black Pear Press.

November 2014

 

Minnie's Wedding

Paragraph Planet (website)

October 2014

 

The Night Ape

Captivity - The 2014 Momaya Annual Short Story Review (anthology)

October 2014

 

The Game

Twisted Tales - Raging Aardvark Publishing (anthology)

October 2014

 

Tonight will always be what it is

Paragraph Planet (website)

September 2014

 

I Gave My Heart

Flash Fiction Magazine (website)

August 2014

 

Kiss?

Flash Food - National Flash Fiction Day Journal - NFFD (website)

June 2014

 

The Book

Edge of Passion - Marble City Publishing anthology

June 2014

 

The Note + Statistics + The Roast + Many Genuinely Nice People Vote Conservative - an ironic polling day poem ( 4 x pieces)

Ell Oh Ell - You have to Laugh - Earlyworks Press humour anthology

June 2014

Fanciful (under pseudonym)

Woman’s Weekly

March 2014

 

2013

 

The Open Door

The Best Stories in a Decade - Momaya Press anthology 2004-2013

December 2013

 

The Open Door

Music - Momaya Press Annual Short Story Review 2013 (anthology)

November 2013

 

Thursday Evening + The Decision

Sharp as Lemons - Earlyworks Press poetry and flash fiction anthology

2013

 

The Cricket Bat

Graffiti (magazine)

2013

 

The Song

Gloucestershire Writers' Network anthology

October 2013

 

Trouble Man

Knife Edge - Marble City Publishing anthology

April 2013

 

Morning Tea

multi-story.co.uk (website). 

February 2013

(Morning Tea was also included in the Somewhere Else Writers anthology based on Corinium Radio broadcast June/July 2013)

 

Pre-2013

 

The Waiting Room

Graffiti (magazine)

April 2011