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’.