I'm Allison Symes. I write flash fiction and short stories. 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 delighted to say my second flash fiction collection, Tripping The Flash Fantastic, has now been published by Chapeltown Books. I was one of the winners of the 2020 Waterloo Arts Festival Writing Competition with my story, Books and the Barbarians. I've been 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. Later in 2020 there should be a paperback of these three ebooks. I also blog for Chandler's Ford Today, an online community magazine, and usually on topics of interest to other writers. I also write for online writing magazine, Writers' Narrative, and am one of their team of editors. I am also a freelance editor and run workshops on that and on flash fiction.