Flash-fiction writer Richard Smith was shortlisted in the 2019 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for Plan B. He also published work in Henshaw Three. In 2020 he was part of the Bridport Prize anthology and has had several stories published in Farnham Flash Fiction in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He is currently working on his first novel while studying a Masters in Creative Writing at Keele University.