About
I'm Nicola Ashbrook, mum, writer, speech and language therapist and colourful clothes obsessive.
Mae In Quinquennia, novella-in-flash, published September 2021 by Selcouth Station
The Art of Escapology, flash fiction collection, October 2022 Bearded Badger Press
The Anatomical History of Violet Vee, novella-in-flash, August 2022 Alien Buddha Press
My other achievements to date (mainly so I don't forget!):
Winner Propelling Pencil comp October 2021
Long-listed Reflex Fiction flash October 2021
Long-listed Retreat West 'circus' theme quarterly flash May 2021
Short-listed Retreat West themed quarterly flash March 2021
Short-listed Retreat West monthly micro February 2021
Long-listed Retreat West Quarterly Themed Flash - 'bridges' theme January 2021
Short-listed Retreat West monthly micro January 2021
Long-listed Retreat West monthly micro November 2020
Short-listed Retreat West monthly micro 'exile' theme August 2020
Long-listed Retreat West Quarterly Themed Flash - 'music' theme August 2020
Short-listed Hastings Writers Room 29/5 competition July 2020
Short-listed Retreat West monthly micro June 2020
Short-listed Mum Life Stories 'stepmother' themed competition May 2020
Long-listed Retreat West monthly micro March 2020
Long-listed 14th Bath Flash Fiction Award Feb 2020
Long-Listed Retreat West monthly micro February 2020
Short-listed Retreat West monthly micro January 2020
Long-listed Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize 2019
Long-listed Retreat West micro competition 'bearings' theme November 2019
Long-listed Retreat West 'water' themed competition October 2019
Highly commended A Story for Daniel 2019
Highly commended Storgy flash fiction competition 2019
Runner-up Retreat West 'wind' themed competition Sept 2019.
Long-listed Reflex Fiction Winter competition 2018
Stories and poems also at Lunate, Clover & White, Storgy, Ellipsis Zine, Nightingale & Sparrow, Nymphs, Emerge Literary Journal, Capsule Stories, 100 Words of Solitude, Truffle, Bandit, Sidereal, Cabinet of Heed, Mum Life Stories, Selcouth Station, The Centifictionist and TL;DR Press.
www.selcouthstation.com/single-post/fiction-stormy-weather-by-nicola-ashbrook
www.reflexfiction.com/author/nicola-ashbrook/
thecentifictionist.home.blog/2021/05/10/the-walrus/
www.hencrofthub.com/issue-one-fungus/savedbyascarletelfcup
www.reflexfiction.com/toddler-sleep-trap-flash-fiction-by-nicola-ashbrook/
www.amazon.co.uk/blizzard-Nightingale-Sparrow-Literary-Magazine/dp/B08WSFX17T/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=nightingale+%26+sparrow+magazine&qid=1613768729&refresh=1&s=books&sr=1-1
www.amazon.co.uk/Mum-Life-Stories-Micro-Fiction-One/dp/B08VCYHL2H
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08TV86SBQ?pf_rd_r=Y3C454GVK1JA5W2H6ECQ&pf_rd_p=6e878984-68d5-4fd2-b7b3-7bc79d9c8b60&pd_rd_r=d8810586-e7d6-4315-b61f-446e131de9cd&pd_rd_w=bsulI&pd_rd_wg=imJcE&ref_=pd_gw_unk
www.ellipsiszine.com/seeking-a-better-life-by-nicola-ashbrook/
storgy.com/2021/01/01/a-womans-guide-to-breaking-the-glass-ceiling-by-nicola-ashbrook/
storgy.com/2020/12/25/giants-of-the-sea-by-nicola-ashbrook/
cabinetofheed.com/2020/12/19/menu-of-losing-her-nicola-ashbrook/
siderealmagazine.com/2020/12/30/1-in-10/
adhocfiction.com/
www.reflexfiction.com/moving-homes-flash-fiction-by-nicola-ashbrook/
www.ellipsiszine.com/eight/
www.ellipsiszine.com/seven/
www.ellipsiszine.com/i-should-never-have-laughed-at-zack-hardy-by-nicola-ashbrook/
banditfiction.com/2020/10/03/history-lesson-in-2237-by-nicola-ashbrook/
www.trufflemagazine.com/issue02
storgy.com/2020/07/22/praying-for-dad-by-nicola-ashbrook/
100wordsofsolitude.wordpress.com/2020/06/29/nicola-ashbrook/
capsulestories.com/isolation-edition/
emergeliteraryjournal.com/as-and-the-sea-shall-answer/
nymphspublications.com/new-blog/masterpiece-by-nicola-ashbrook
bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/02/february-2020-long-list/
www.amazon.co.uk/love-Nightingale-Sparrow-Literary-Magazine/dp/B084P24666/ref=sr_1_1?crid=EC38D0JDGYWH&keywords=nightingale+and+sparrow&qid=1582537887&sprefix=nightingale%2Caps%2C213&sr=8-1
storgy.com/2019/12/04/festive-flash-4-going-cold-turkey-by-nicola-ashbrook/
lunate.co.uk/home/demonagerie-by-nicola-ashbrook
https://www.retreatwest.co.uk/zephyr-zefferlli-nicola-ashbrook/
storgy.com/2019/09/23/flash-fiction-shortlist-winners-2019/
www.reflexfiction.com/author/nicola-ashbrook/