WINNING ENTRIES
SPRING 2022
Congratulations to the winners of our Spring competitions. Please click on the highlighted entries to read them. You can add a comment afterwards if you want to share your thoughts.
If you like these entries look out for these and many others that will be appearing in our next anthology due out at the end of the month.
SHORT FICTION
WINNER
Show Me Where It Hurts by Adam Lock
RUNNER-UP
Just a Few Seconds by Isobel Copley
THIRD PLACE
The Life It Once Held by Marcelle Creak
FLASH FICTION
WINNER
The Proposal by Anna Ross
RUNNER-UP
The Releasing by Fiona Ritchie Walker
THIRD PLACE
Second-Best Husband by Chris Cottom
POETRY
WINNER
Full Moon by Junia Dia
RUNNER-UP
Counterpoint by B.C. Burnett
THIRD PLACE
Jasmine by Stephen Kingsnorth
WINTER 2021-22
SHORT FICTION
WINNER
GAMBLES AND BALANCES by Bruce Harris
RUNNER-UP
All The Things You Aren’t by Martin Phillips
THIRD PLACE
Sharp is the Thorn by Rachel Bedding
FLASH FICTION
WINNER
PAREIDOLIA by Rowan Evans
RUNNER-UP
Gap Year by Emma J. Myatt
THIRD PLACE
Dissonance by Darren Whitehouse
POETRY
WINNER
ENLIGHTENED CREATURES by Rachel Swabey
RUNNER-UP
Moon/ Moon’s Reply by Jeff Gallagher
THIRD PLACE
After You Encounter Loss, You Realise by Guilherme Levy Costa Cruz
AUTUMN 2021
SHORT FICTION
WINNER
Christmas Bizarre by H.B. O’Neill
RUNNER-UP
John Henry’s Fiddle by Norman Thomson
THIRD PLACE
The Boot
by Chris Kok
FLASH FICTION
WINNER
Gavin’s Thing by Susannah Cherry
RUNNER-UP
Virginia Woolf’s Reflection by Frances Valdes
THIRD PLACE
Doomsayer
By R.F. Marazas
POETRY
WINNER
RAGNAROK by Abi Turner
RUNNER-UP
Hope by Jessica Bath
THIRD PLACE
The Black Sabbath of the Carbons
By Kathy Tierney