DIANE SIMMONS is a British author who lives in the west country. She is a co-director of National Flash Fiction Day and a director of the UK Flash Fiction Festival. She has been a reader for the Bath Short Story Award, an editor for Flash Flood and a judge for several flash competitions, including Flash 500 and NFFD Micro. Widely published and anthologised, she has been placed in numerous short story and flash competitions. 'Finding a Way', her flash collection on the theme of grief, was published by Ad Hoc Fiction in 2019 and was shortlisted in the 2019 Saboteur Awards. Her historical flash fiction novella, 'An Inheritance' was published by V. Press in February 2020. Signed copies are available from her website: www.dianesimmons.co.uk
