And the results are in!
Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title):
- First Prize: ‘Frost Fair’ by Josie Turner
- Second Prize: ‘The Attempts of Arlo, Age 9, to Create a Shooting Star After Learning They Are Just Rocks Moving Very Fast’ by Leila Murton Poole
- Third Prize: ‘Sex, Sighs and Masking Tape’ by Chris Cottom
- Highly Commended: ‘Everyone Said It Was Pointless Trying to Date a Girl Obsessed With Marine Arthropods but I Had to Find out for Myself’ by Rebecca Field
- Highly Commended: ‘Granny’s Biggest Handicraft Project to Date’ by Anne Howkins
- Highly Commended: ‘I imagine the Sun Changing Its Mind’ by Sarah Barnett
- Highly Commended: ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’ by Sherry Morris
- Highly Commended: ‘Pearls on His Kurta’ by Sudha Balagopal
- Highly Commended: ‘Stars and Stripes, 1945’ by James Montgomery
- Highly Commended: ‘When We Were Young’ by Suzanne Hicks
The winning and highly commended stories can be read here and will appear in the 2024 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.
Thank you again to our four judges: Sara Chansarkar, Jan Kaneen, David Rhymes and Alison Wassell.
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.