2023 Short and Long Lists and previous winners


2023 Short List

A Hind’s Daughter

Echoes

Emeralds

Gigged

I’ll Take You In

Into The Cave

It might be lonelier without the loneliness

Monopoly

Out of the Abyss 

Rookwing

Tell it to the Clouds

They’re Getting Help

Washed Up 

Long List

A Hind’s Daughter

An Iris in a Jam Jar

Another Man’s Treasure

Boogie Wonderland

Dessert

Echoes

Emeralds

Gigged

I’ll Take You In

Inheritance

It might be lonelier without the loneliness

Love

Monopoly

Out of the Abyss

Out of the Cave

Rookwing

Skipping Stones

Spontaneous Urban Sculpture

Sprawled

Taking

Tea and Candles

Tell it to the Clouds

The Butterfly House

The Meeting

The Things I Should Have Said

The Tooth Fairy

Then and Now

They’re Getting Help

Tilting Room

True Potential

Washed Up

Winning stories 2022

First Prize – Saying Goodbye to Laura by Nikki Copleston

Second Prize – Moonblind by Kieran Marsh

Third Prize – Buyer Beware by Fiona Anderson

Highly Commended:

The Fog, by Joanna Shardlow

Redhead Reunion by Dianne Bown-Williams

Selkie by Anne Corlett.

The Local Prize was won by Anne Corlett for Selkie.

Winners 2021

First place, Tony Peake with Your Call’; second place, Arleen McCrombie with ‘North Ridge’; third place, Jimmy Lowther with ‘Kingfisher; highly commended, Mary Byrne with ‘Finishing Touch‘ and Stella Townson with Butch’.

Local prizes (from writers within 25 miles of Frome): joint first place to Jimmy Lowther (Kingfisher) and Stella Townson (Butch); third place, Jo Kirk with ‘The Last Apple; highly commended, Adrienne Howell with My Boy Jonah’.

 

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