Sara Hills is the author of The Evolution of Birds (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021), winner of the 2022 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection. Her flash-length stories have been taught internationally in schools and workshops as well as widely published in anthologies and online journals, including SmokeLong Quarterly, Cheap Pop, X-R-A-Y Literary, Cease Cows, Fractured Lit, New Flash Fiction Review, Splonk, and Flash Frog.

She has won SmokeLong Quarterly’s Grand Micro Competition, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Manchester Writing School’s QuietManDave Prize for flash nonfiction, the Retreat West quarterly prize, and National Flash Fiction Day’s micro competition. Her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfictions, and Best of the Net and selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, The Best Small Fictions and the BIFFY 50.

Sara was the guest co-editor for National Flash Fiction Day’s 2024 anthology and has judged competitions for Bath Flash Fiction Award, New Flash Fiction Review, and the Flash Fiction Festival. She has been an editor for National Flash Fiction Day’s Flash Flood Journal and The Write-In since 2021.

Originally from the Sonoran Desert, Sara lives with her family in Warwickshire, UK and posts on twitter/bsky from @sarahillswrites.

Currently supported via public funding by Arts Council England.