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!
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 | Thins 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 |
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 |