Well, it's been a tortuous job to winnow the 200+ submission down to our selection, but Angi Holden and myself have finally managed it. And so we are pleased to announce that the stories in this years anthology will be as follows:
A Curious State of Affairs by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
A Secret Weight by KM Elkes
Bad Geography by James Coates
Colouring In by Shirley Golden
Coming Back to Primorsk by Anna Nazarova-Evans
Countdown by Susan Howe
Devil's Mountain by Joanna Campbell
Dinner and Geography by Keith Gillison
Disputed Zone by Barbara Leahy
Double Geography by Jane Cooper
Forty Seconds by Katie Stevens
How The Earth Began by Jenny Woodhouse
Her geography by Rob Walton
Holiday Photograph by Else Fitzgerald
I Am Maps* by H Anthony Hildebrand
Keeping in touch by Amanda Quinn
Landmarks by Ian Shine
London by Tracey Upchurch
Love by Nik Perring
North by Michelle Elvy
On Location by Jon Volkmer
On the Beach by Kate Mahony
Pen Y Fan by Susan Carey (Angela Williams)
Petty Larceny at the Grocery by Beverly C. Lucey
Postcards by Mike Scott Thomson
Re:Help by Sandra Kohls
Saharan Shades by Santino Prinzi
Spinning the Bottle by Timothy Mark Roberts
Sweet Gestures by Chris Stanley
The Beautiful Game by Sonya Oldwin
The Blue House by Cath Barton
The Gambler by Richard Holt
The Next Island by Jamie Hubner
The Owner by Bart Van Goethem
The Psychiatrist's Shoe by Nod Ghosh
Toy Soldier by Pauline Masurel
Tunnels by Marie Gethins
Tunnels by Isobel Victoria Newham (Vicky)
Useless Without The Other Half by Vanessa Savage
Wall Map by Emeline Morin
Welcome to All Souls’ Park by Gemma Govier
Who Can Hear The Screaming by Kirsten Anne McKenzie
Would It Kill You to Smile, Blanca Gomez? by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
You Promised by Cath Bore
Love in Different Time Zones by Jane Roberts
A Place in Time by Ruth Doris
Five Travellers in a Small Ford by James Norcliffe
Scattered (After Mike Blow's Aeolus) by Emily Koch
The Somewhere Road by Alex Reece Abbott
Third Shadow by Tim Stevenson
Hilary Is the Winters of Keith's Discontent by Kevlin
We Endure by Cathy Lennon
How Can I Get You to Dance? by Angela Readman
Ultima Thule by Jonathan Pinnock
Travels in Ink by Angi Holden
Your Body Is Terrain They Can Map Now (Not That That Helps You, Much) by Amy Mackelden
A Face in the Crowd by Calum Kerr
Saddle Stitch by Michelle Keefe
I am East by Sarah Hilary
Fingers Crossed by SJI Holliday
Fable by Oli Morris
With the winning and commended titles from the Micro-Fiction Competition:
Fly by Rob Walton
i want someone who loves me so much they don't care about grammar by Laura Tansley
A Weekend Away by Diane Simmons
The Pacifist by Nick Triplow
Marks and Sparks by Ian Shine
Spreading The Chaos by Mark Newman
A History Of Ants In The Sugar Bowl by Julie Sawyer
Maturity by Jude Higgins
Stiff by Joanna Campbell
And A Bottle Of Rum by Garreth Wilcock
Congratulations to all who made it in. Commiserations to those who were unsuccessful.
We are currently working on the title and the cover, and those will be announced as soon as can be!
Thanks to all who took part, to Angi for helping to select the stories, and to Amy and Tino for their amazing work.
More soon...
Calum Kerr
Director of NFFD
Thank you for organising a fantastic competition and for all the work you do to produce the anthology. Looking forward to reading it - and congratulations to everyone.
Thanks very much for organising this! Will be my first piece of published fiction, so thanks for picking my story. Well done everyone
Thanks for all the hard work and look forward to reading and promoting it!
An amazing opportunity to read stories of such quality and diversity. Congratulations to all whose work has been selected and many thanks to everyone who submitted. Can't wait to see the anthology!
High fives to Calum for all his hard work organising both the NFFD 2015 Anthology and the Micro-Fiction Competition.