Long Lists 2018
Thank you to everyone who entered this year's competition. It has been a great pleasure to read your work, and we hope you will all continue with your writing.
Please note: all judging is carried out anonymously, so a particular well done to those who have managed to smuggle two titles onto the long lists!
LONG LIST FOR FLASH FICTION 2018
| Alan Kennedy | The Wedding |
| Amanda Huggins | Scratched Enamel Heart |
| Diane Simmons | Processing |
| Douglas Bruton | He's Dangerous |
| Douglas Bruton | Outlaws No More |
| Hazel Turner | I Hate Windows |
| Jenny Ryan | Love Among the Ruins |
| Jeremy Hodesdon | What Had been and what was Now Lost |
| Joan El Faghloum | The Devil's Kiss |
| Jocelyn Barker | One day in `67 |
| Karen Jones | The Girl She Never Was |
| Karen Jones | Things Only the Birds Can Know |
| Jupiter Jones | At the Trig Point |
| Kathryn Burke | Soul Music |
| Monika Nagy | The Storm |
| Rob McInroy | Peewit |
| Sharon Corso | Homecoming |
| Terry Baldock | Unkindness |
| Tony Oswick | In the Land of Peculiar Proverbs |
| Tony Oswick | Mystery |
LONG LIST FOR SHORT STORIES 2018
| Charlotte Chadwick | Before this Moon |
| Anne Rabitt | The Birthday Cake |
| Douglas Bruton | If a Stone could talk |
| Fiona Thackery | Guava Season |
| James Arnold | Not the Four Aces in your Head |
| Jason Jackson | Mack's Last Flight |
| Jeremy Hodesdon | One Shot |
| John Whitehouse | A Tettenhall Dick |
| John Whitehouse | Unaccustomed as I am |
| Laurane Marchive | Expectations |
| Liam Tullberg | It's nice to be important |
| Lynne Voyce | Thirty Minutes to Achfray |
| Mary Bonner | The Leaves on the Rowan |
| Mary Fox | A Good Black Coat |
| Mary Fox | Dolores |
| Mike Corbett | A Conversation on the Nature of Things |
| Richard Hooton | Mr Flint and the Fire |
| Richard Hooton | Phantom |
| Richard Hooton | The Fire Breathing Dragon of Salford |
| Rob McInroy | Sequela |