March '23 - March '24 CLOSED
Short Story - January '23 Winner The Beau Show by Beverley Byrne Selected Who's Adam's Apple by Lesley Anne Truchet Loving Tom by Kathy Goddard Radio Ga Ga by Kate Twitchin Minesweeper by Colin Heaney In'cast'cerated by Cindy Pereira Party Girl by Pat St. Pierre The Go-Between by Frank Staniforth Short Story - November '22 Winner Looped by Riel Rosehill Selected The Old Days by Vivienne Moles 123a Park Lane by R.T. Hardwick Penance by Jason Darrell It was only a Penny by Pat St. Pierre The Dying of the Light by Clare Durham Four Days in the Life of Adelola Oseghare by Kevin Owen The Herd by Felicity Edwards Into the Light by Edward Latham Little Marika by Chris Cottom An Insincerity of Sausage Rolls by Anna Mahoney Dancing in the Moonlight by Kathy Goddard A Fairytale for Grownups by Kate Twitchin Saving Christmas by Maisie Bishop Short Story - October '22 Winner The Whole Earthly Shebang by Lynda McMahon Selected Adding Up by Carrie Hynds The Right Ingredients by Zelda C. Thorne Sugar by Kathy Goddard Dolls' House by Jenny Worstall Time for a Kitchen Garden by Cindy Pereira The Power of Ten by Maisie Bishop That Organ is Mine by Hannah Retallick There's Something at the Bottom of the Garden by Vivienne Moles The Unfortunate Adventures of Prince Cuthbert Winkwilliam by Riel Rosehill Church with No Upstairs by R.T. Hardwick The Secret by Alberta Gibbs Travelling Light by Jason Darrell The 'Down-and-out' by Edward Virgo String of Pearls by Anna Mahoney Waiting for Geraldine by Roger Woodcock One One-Thousand by Andrew Ball Young Rocker by Mike Creese A Miracle in the Back-to-Backs by Gill James September 2022 Winner Cold Cases by Niamh O'Brien Selected A New Chapter by Claudia Nicholson Sorry, Can't Stop by Vivienne Moles Wonky Syntax by Aneeta Sundararaj The Snowman's Ghost by Kevin Owen Memory is a Funny Old Thing by R. Kennedy-Escott From Me to You by Jenny Worstall The Bandalero by Beverley Byrne The Train from Norwich by Rosie Douglas Face at the Window by R.T. Hardwick Sunflower Dreams by Riel Rosehill In the Garage by Cathy Bryant The Corn Dolly by Jason Darrell #24 The Miniature Torture by Cindy Pereira SELECTED Wall of Moon by Beck Collett The Bride by Rosie Douglas The Hedge-Witch and the Boy by Louise Wilford Meeting Queen Boudicca by R.T Hardwick Rock Bottom R Kennedy-Escott The House on the Shore by Jill Waters A Brief Encounter by Dorothy Snelson War of the Needles by Claudia Nicholson It's a Cracker! by John Bunting Little Black Box by Warren Tang Twelve Storeys by Sam Szanto Miss Munro's Day by Roger Woodcock Effie the Library Elf by Mai Black Clean by Nick Gilbert The Beauty in Vulnerability by Steve Goodlad Dear Diary by Beverley Byrne #23 IT'S A TIE! Simply Just Different by Niamh O'Brien A Monomaniac by Christina Latysheva SELECTED Aunt Sarah's Legacy by R.T Hardwick Maddy Said by Louise Wilford The Power of Certainty by Eva Bell Cat--astrophe by Dorothy Snelson I Spend All My Hours... by Zaqary Fekete The Deeper Sleeper Creepers by Jason Darrell Free Spirit by Kathy Goddard The Ribbon Path by Adele Evershed The Weight of Warfare... by Cayden Nusantoro Liu Never Such Innocence Again by Jack Bumby The Great Green Goblet by Cindy Pereira Basingstoke Love Song by Jo Bodley Sisters by Jill Waters Shoelace by Gilles Talarek Punch by Steph Clark Wish You Were Here by Brian Webster Dust to Dust by Maggie Iribane Violent Nylon by Beck Collett Make My Day by Steve Goodlad The Dog Gets It by Beverley Byrne Seated in Silence by Vrinda Lmathur #22 The Interview by Steve Goodlad SELECTED The Long Night by Vivienne Moles The Lift by Edward Virgo Flashback by Carlo Musso Fall to Rise by Niamh O’Brien Trouble in Paradise by Dorothy Snelson If Walls Could Talk by Adele Evershed Cannibals by Katerina Kosma Pop to the Shops by Carrie Hynds Comeuppance by Jason Darrell Lovers forever by Pat St Pierre Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow by Jill Waters What Can You Do? by Louise Wilford Your Worst Nightmare by Jonathan Wainwright A Scattering of Seeds by Roger Woodcock Scarlett by John Roberts Angel Street by Caroline Osborne Dinner on the Last Page by Cindy Pereira Fifty-fifty Split by Beck Collett Past and Present by Kathy Goddard Dog Days by Beverley Byrne #21 A Cure for Death by Beverley Byrne SELECTED New Beginnings by Yvonne Lang The Stuff of Nightmares by Vivienne Moles Books by Elizabeth O'Shea The Corpse by Vrinda Lavakare Mathur Show and Tell by B. Craig Grafton Room Seventeen by Brian Skinner Deceit by Jonathan Wainwright The Letter by R.T. Hardwick The Things We Leave Behind by Adele Evershed Why no one should spy on a Mobsters Funeral by Rachel Smith Jetta Black and the Seven squats by Bryan Thomas Four Deaths and a Funeral by Steph Clark Neuro Rehab by Paul Rogers Ghosts Aren't Real by Beck Collett In Confidence by Caroline Osborne The Shaman and the Drummer by Felicity Edwards Shadows by Louise Wilford Dear Grandad by Connie Harris Meeting the Father by Maggie Nerz Iribarne Weight Watchers by Julie Walsh Waiting for tomorrow by Pat St. Pierre The Straight Line and the Curve by Yvonne Clarke The Birthday Reaper by Cindy Pereira What Did You Do On Your Holiday? by Michael Lane #20 Not Moths, Just Dust by Beck Collett SELECTED Emotional Baggage by R.T Hardwick Kizzy's Kitchen by Lucy Nankivell Hellebore Season by Maisie Bishop Snow in June by R. Kennedy-Escott Mistletoe by Mick Shawyer Time by Urte Grinkaite Brown Bear & Stick Jaw by Cindy Pereira Randy & Me by Eva Bell The Spotlight's On You by Vivienne Moles Last Vampire by Luke Hodge The Wise Ones by Gip Roberts The Old Shopper by Vaibhav Sharma Stealing Snowdrops by Beverley Byrne In the Balance by Sue Johnson Paradise Unearned by N.J. Weber Talking with the Void by Stephanie Clark Kingdom to Awry by Daisy Blacklock Borderline by Frank Staniforth Amidst a Ruin by E.R. Temblett Red Zero by Jonathan Wainwright #19 Closed Chapters by Cindy Pereira SELECTED Catch Me If You Can by Christina Collins Is There Something Else? by Thomas Morgan Run Away with Me by S. Bee Annette's Amusia by RT Hardwick Alarm by Hannah Retallick My Guilty Secret by Carrie Hewlett Moving House by Barbara Compton Nifty Fifties by Sharon Haston Henrietta by David John Griffin William the First by Colin Taylor Loving Anthony by Wendy Janes Memory Swinging by Rebecca Castell Skybound by Niki Baker Just Me by Daisy Blacklock Love Letters by Kathy Goddard The Best Kind of Magic by Jon Hunter Two Pairs of Hands by Maisie Bishop Butter Pecan by Gilles Talarek Reckoning by Ken Cohen Piles by Vanessa Horn Rudolpho's Comeback by Steven Barrett #18 Perfect by Sue Buckingham SELECTED Emily by Mick Shawyer The Two of Us by Tracey Williams Just Another Day by Gareth Gray Six Blank by Rishika Srivastava Please by Barbara Compton Stray Things by Kailey Blount The Gift by Brian A Skinner The Punch by Richard Gibney Music to Die for by Adele Evershed All Fall Down by Rowena Fishwick Threads by Gilles Talarek Different by Wanda Dakin Heartlifter by Jo Roberts Madeline by Caroline Jenner Little Dove by Shelley Crowley Running with the Bull by Darrell Case #17 The Silent Heroes by Amy McCarthy Selected Typeface by Rani Jayakumar God's Disposable Creatures by Gilles Talarek A Little Something by Mick Shawyer Man in the Window by Meg Bell Across the Hallway by John Jones Afternoon Tea by Vivienne Moles The Reverend Willis and the Development by Graham Crisp The Feathered Friend by Scott Wilson The Repository of Secrets by Carrie Hynds Mis-Communication by Sue Buckingham The Photographer's Justice by Luke Cresswell The Burning Question by Carrie Hewlett Unforgettable by Laura Tapper The Party's Over by Ginny Swart #16 JustLikeMe by Christopher Wortley Selected Fitting Tribute by Vivienne Moles Light by Grace Collins Surveillance by Eileen Morgan Fine In Trainers by Julie Astronaut True Romance by Patsy Collins Fifty Years From Now by Maisie Bishop What Colour Is The Wind? by Brian A Skinner Lost In The Crowd by Scott Wilson What Would Alan Do? by Brian Weston High Tea by R.T. Hardwick Tall Dark and Handsome by Jennifer Anne F. Messing Michael And The Red Scooter by Mick Shawyer Kindred by Rani Jayakumar Now Or Never by Sharon Boothroyd Time Out by Sue Barnard Adventures In Romance by Sue Johnson Stonestruck by Alyson Faye #15 Mortal Sin isn’t what it used to Be by Jenny Worstall Selected Get Your Skates On by Christina Collins Patience by Andy Baker If I Could Cry, I'd Be Happier by Leah Holbrook Sackett Burning Bright by Susmita Ramani The Lilac Shawl by Esther Byrne That Night by Elaine Barnard Skyclad by Kate MacDonald The Statues a Liberty by Brian A Skinner John's Turn by Noreen Jeffers The Red Velvet Dress by Maisie Bishop Friday Needs a Suitcase by Adele Evershed The Loft by Scott Wilson Serving of Revenge by Yvonne Lang The Charmer by S. Bee The Viewing by Vivienne Moles The Ghosts of Durley Hall by Jeff Jones #14 Bonzo by Felicity Edwards Selected The Shortcut by Scott Wilson The Boy in the Bed by Graham Crisp Redemption by Jeff Jones Falling on Deaf Ears by Sarah J Davies Rising from the Ashes by Yvonne Clarke #13 Those Who Live by the Word by Andrew Ball Selected The Somme by Jeff Jones Thirteen Minutes by Scott Wilson Persona non grata by Yvonne Clarke Julius and Earl by Gilles Talarek Handyman by Gary Egan The White Arrows by Graham Crisp Always Closer Than You Think by Jo Winwood The Mirror of Youth by Rachel Smith #12 A Mother's Love by Jo Winwood Selected Katrina Hayes - The Doctors Peculiar Boy Liz O'Shea - Getting Lost Jeff Jones - Another Chance Graham Crisp - Mary and the Spirit Stephen Goodlad - Lost James Northern - Race Ya Sven Camrath - The Right Place Gilles Talarek - Soap Bev Byrne - The Suicide Tree Rachel Smith - Wrong Number Victoria Kuzmina - A Ritual #11 Crossed Wires by Jeff Jones Selected Author, Author! by Andrew Ball The Book of Revelations by R.T. Hardwick Molly Dolly’s New Clothes by Elaine Peters Change Matters by C.R. Berry Ding Dong Dung by Cindy Periera The Death of an Actor by Steve Goodlad Werewolves by Jessica Brown The Incidentals Table by Liz Breen Weakender by JP Seabright A Letter by Joe Bedford The Neighbour by Lynne Couzins Taking the Floor by Claire Barnard Hotel Kasbah by Beverley Byrne #10 A Blanket of Stars by Georgia Cook Selected: The Inheritance by Graham Crisp The Present by Peter Hankins Chance Encounter by Jeff Jones Command by Ian Tew #9 Kings and Pawns by Dutch Simmons Selected Murderous Intent by Jeff Jones The Day With The Birds by Liz Breen Something Fishy Going On by Adele Evershed The Ransom Note by Steve Goodlad Wilhelmina Turns Eighty by Anita Gorman Mavis’s Cosy Christmas Cottage by Jon Hunter The Tap by Beverley Byrne Forever Gone by Hilary Taylor A Party? by Felicity Edwards #8 Footsteps by Savanna Naylor Selected Entries: Weather Report by Paul Garson Bartlett, The Dog and the old Sailor by Ronald T Hardwick The Post-Lockdown Holiday by David A Jones The Best Jest by Shelley Crowley Phil in Real Life by Sam Szanto Evergreen by Samantha Priestley The Secret To Staying Young by Saul Greenblatt Volume Control by Grace Tierney Hologram Futures by Alyson Hilbourne The Grief Eater by Christina MacKinnon Monster Under the Bed by Patricia Green Roisin's Party by James Elson The Full Moon by Dipayan Chakrabarti A Little Hard Work by Carrie Hynds Log Me In by Paul Warnes Delight in Every Bite by Nathalie Roos First Impressions by Jeff Jones What's In A Name? by Ian Inglis I'll See You When I Get There by Thomas Morgan Double Trouble by Vivienne Moles Number 69 by Eve Naden The Healing Stone by Katie Winkler Beached by Maisie Bishop The Queen of the Forest by Renee Gerald The Winter Tree by The Somnambulist Society The Hourglass by Madelaine Taylor I Don’t Like Cheats by Patsy Collins Mrs Stepney's Stepdaughter by Betty Hasler Isodel by Darren Smith All Hallows Eve by Jane Bidder Eve by Hilary Davies Pas De Deux Redux by Adele Evershed The Thing by Taqwa A Helping Hand by Christina Westwood Come the Morning Stars by Conor O’Sullivan Interconnected by Ena Catlin Watching by Natasha Weber #7 A Charmed Life by Patsy Collins Selected Entries: The Suitcase by Maddy Allen Alpha to Zulu: Alphabet Phonetic Frolics by Jolie Marchant Letting Go by Kate MacWhannell I Lost My Wife Down the Back of the Sofa by Brian G Ross Something Comes to Live in Vincent Van Gogh's House by Sobia Ali The Ritual by Vaibhav Sharma Little Miss Perfect by Dorothy Snelson Waiting by Jeff Jones A Merry Encounter by Donna Hughes Blossom Time by James Ellson The Bird and the Riley by David Crozier Last Chance by Sonia Mehta The Near Demise of Old Norm by Rachel Wade On Rings of Fire by Dipayan Chakrabarti In Conclusion by Lou Hoffman Communal Gardening by Stef Smulders The Three Little Pigs Meet Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Anita Gorman The Housefly by David Butler A Moment by Josie Turner Chop Wood Carry Water by Feliz Piez After the Last Guest Left by Barbara Zapson Beta Testing by Stephen Hosking Ballroom Dancer by Felicity Edwards Falling Light by Debbie Robson Blackberry and Apple by Andrew Ball Dead Fast by Stephen Foster-Pilkington Telepathic Drugless Therapy by Eva Bell Stolen Warmth by JY Saville #6 Sabrina's Rising by Cheryl Burman Selected Entries: First Climb of the Season by D.M Kerr Calm Evening - River Wind by Thomas Elson Vergence by Stephen Lisle Puzzle Box by Bob Carlton The Bright Side by Ophelia Clare A Change of Luck by Jeff Jones For Whom The Hands Clap by Fiona Murphy-McCormack The Cardinal Sins by JB Polk Most Marriages Performed by Leah Holbrook Sackett Special Recollections by Bryan Smith Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover by Andrew Ball Yogurt Man Street by J. Anthony Hartley The Well by Patricia Furstenberg Bapaume III by Nick Fraser No Longer by Emily Kate Hastings Grace's High Note by Philip Charter No Regrets by Felicity Edwards The One that Got Away by Malina Douglas Rosalyn Tempest by John Jones I Fear Myself by Kurt Russell Black Money Matters by Antonio Salituro Agility by Stef Smulders A Smouldering Secret by Amy B. Moreno Johnny by Steven Evans #5 Mother by Michelle Hendriks Selected Entries: The Man in the Living Room by Rodrigo Palacios The Believer by Warren Benedetto The Interview by Philip Jones A New Friend by Emily Dixon The Cat by Brian Skinner The Elephant in the Black Hole by Crescentia Morais Bridges Are Beginning to Ice Over by Bob Carlton The Art of Almost by Natascha Graham The Online Death of Gerald Thorne by Lisa M Lane Elisha's Game by Harlan Wells First Snow Day by Chloe Winterburn Bones by Raluca Comanelea Career Girl by Jean Cooper Moran House 147 by Nate Ealy The Lady in White by Jeff Jones Creeper by James Ellson New Beginnings by Jennifer Anne F. Messing Cherry by John Jones The Shame Game by Amy B. Moreno Death is Nothing by Andrew Ball Little Wooden Boxes by Alex Rollings The Cottonwood Tree by Rachel Tyrrel Have You Seen This Man? by C.E. Tidswell The Oasis by AS Winter Amber Night Tattoo by Malina Douglas #4 We Still Don't Use the Garage by S.J. Townend Selected Entries: A Lantern; A Knife by Philip Charter Tattoos by Martin Flett Little Dove by Shelley Crowley Letters Home by Daniel Clark Morning Coffee by Susan Hoffmann Rise and Set and Rise Again by Jenni Cook Layover by Rebecca Redshaw October October by Andrew Ball Unheard by Lois Chapin Cross the Eyes by Josh Cassidy Escape and Evade by Jeff Jones In the Footsteps of the Paediatrician by Liz Berg Forbidden by Meg Isaac Love by Edward Breen Memory Stones by Chloe Winterburn No More Heroes by Melanie Roussel Discovery by David Darling The Year of the Dying Fish by JB Polk Opal by Jessica Disney #3 Equal Rights by Andrew Ball Selected Entries: Don't Turn Around by Alexander Gerolimatos The Glitch by Vaibhav Sharma Caught in a False Sunbeam by Roghan David Aran Duggan Metcalf Failing by Ruth Makepeace Homecoming by David Darling Speech! Speech! by Andrew Galvin Love Letters by Adesola Adewale Euthanasia by Pragya Rathore Out of the Flow by Dharmavadana Penn Memory by Matthew Thorpe-Apps The Mystery of the White Ghost at Chrisard School by Anna Jozefowicz Leviathan by Owen Reilly A Discovery/Saying Goodbye by Emily Dixon Lord Old Timer by Robin Mortimer After Life by Hannah Burgess Dead on Time by Jeff Jones The Queen's Attendant by Catherine McCarthy The Key by Victoria Huggins The War and the Wall by MacKenzie Tastan #2 The Wait by Jeff Jones Selected Entries: Consequences by Dave Darling Your Favourite Dolly by Tesni Penney For Better, For Worse by Catherine Ogston A Trace of Red by Clare Adams A Nice Bit of Tongue by Karon Alderman Hello, You by Philip Charter Potted Bavaria by Sheila Kinsella The Things We Left Behind by Michael Lacare The Man in Black by Morgan Brennan So Close by Tracy Stevenson The Suitcase by Maddy Allen Lockdown: One Good Deed by Mary Macread Betrayal in a Shade of White by Emma Cooper Her Brother’s Friend by J. L. Harland Tight Corners by Kathleen Kenny Koi by Nadia Mikail Howl by Shaun Calvert Kelsey by Robert Boucheron A Campfire Story by Mike Noyes Stars by Abigail Green Parts by Alexander Mo The Funeral Procession by Robert Raymer The Songs of my Sister by Kathy Hoyle Hilarity Paling by Alex Bestwick Trapped by Patricia Cole The Change by Liz Berg Grasses by Alex Barr #1 Podsnezhniki by Anita Davie Selected Entries: Another Day At The Office by Seamus Easton Antartica Origins by Joanna MacInnes Cousins by Wan Phing Lim Famous by Jacqui Jay Grafton George Polishes Up by Ian C Douglas Gone Viral by Jacqueline Harrett Graffiti by Cathy Bryant It Starts With A Train by Magdalene Bird Monkey Beach by Robert Raymer The Accidental Jesus by James Stark The Broken Doll by Alice Prior The View by Kay Chomic Thunder Flies by Jeremy Hubbard Weaving the Magic by Robert Scott |