Allison Symes

Allison Symes writes flash fiction and short stories.

She is published online and in print by Bridge House Publishing, Cafelit, Iron Press and Chapeltown Books, who published her flash fiction collection, From Light to Dark and Back Again in 2017. Her second flash fiction collection, Tripping The Flash Fantastic, was published by Chapeltown Books in 2020.

Her third flash fiction collection, Seeing The Other Side, came out in July 2026 and is her largest volume to date, containing flashes across the word count spectrum, linked flashes, acrostic flashes and more.

Allison was one of the winners of the 2020 Waterloo Arts Festival Writing Competition with her story, Books and the Barbarians. She was one of the winners for this competition three years in a row. Please see Transforming Communities, To Be...To Become and Transforming Being as these are the compilations of the winning entries. There is a paperback of these three ebooks available too.

Allison also blogs for Chandler's Ford Today, an online community magazine, and usually on topics of interest to other writers. She often interviews other writers. She also writes for online writing magazine, Writers' Narrative, on a wide variety of writing topics. There is a monthly theme.

Allison is also a freelance editor and run workshops on that and on flash fiction. She judges competitions too.