And the results are in!
Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed
alphabetically by story title):
- First Prize: ‘All my lovers’ by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
- Second Prize: ‘Shouting in Silence’ by Fiona Barker
- Joint Third Prize: ‘The Boy in the Leopard Skin Shorts’ by Alan S.
Falkingham - Joint Third Prize: ‘Afterbirth’ by Sally Simon
- Highly Commended: ‘Arthur Rimbaud Speaks to His Shadow’ by Kik Lodge
- Highly Commended: ‘Reds’ by Sudha Balagopal
- Highly Commended: ‘The Fate of Small Creatures’ by Jan Kaneen
- Highly Commended: ‘The Return of a Native’ by Caroline Greene
- Highly Commended: ‘The Song of the Thieving Magpie’ by Liz Meyer
- Highly Commended: ‘The Tsar’ by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
The winning and highly commended stories can be read here and will appear in the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.
Thank you again to our four judges: Tim Craig, Amanda Huggins, Fiona J
Mackintosh and Johanna Robinson.
Congratulations again to all our prize-winning and highly commended authors, and to all those who were shortlisted. And, a big thank you to everyone who entered this year’s competition and trusted us with their stories.
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