2024 Short-List and Long-List, plus previous years’ winners

Short List 2024

A Struggle for Words
Another Day in Paradise
Arrogance Management
Australia
Ben Garrett Saved my Life
Family
Flying Away
No-one Wants to be Second Best
On the Border
The Bookmark
The Draugh
The Job at Dobson’s
White Rose

Long list 2024

A Dying Breed

A Father’s Son

A House Filled with Light

A Struggle for Words

Another Day in Paradise

Arrogance Management

Australia

Ben Garrett Saved my Life

Eyes for the World

Family

Flying Away

Game

Getting Even

High Hurstwood

Jellyfish

Laurie is Red, Jonas is Blue

Lost Plot

No-one Wants to be Second Best

Normandy

On the Border

Skin

Skirrid

Somethin’ Stupid (paper)

The Bookmark

The Draugh

The Ivy on the Wall

The Job at Dobson’s (paper)

The Last Horse

The Teller of Tales

Until it Hurts

White Rose

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

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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