Short Story Competition 2022 Results

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A big thank you to our judge Denise Barnes (AKA Molly Green) for judging the 2022 short story competition, with its theme of 'memory'.

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We are delighted to announce that the winner is A Poet’s Widow Writes To Her Late Husband by Irena Karafilly.

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Denise commented ‘I felt I got to know the woman's relationship with her husband through her way of speaking directly to him, and now he had died I wanted to read on to see how it would play out where the widow was concerned. Excellent writing, so congratulations to the winner!’

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Irena Karafilly's latest book ARRESTED SONG was released in March 2023.  For more details on this and Irena's other work, visit irenakarafilly.com

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Denise also chose a runner-up, Ordinary Promises by Lindsay Bennett Ford.

She comments that ‘The story caught my attention quickly just by one sentence halfway down on the first page: George called last night. Immediately, I wanted to know who George was. He must be significant or writer wouldn't have mentioned him in what might read as a flippant way, but you just knew it wasn't flippant at all.’

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Lindsay Bennett Ford is hoping to read her story at Mani Lit Fest 2023, so we look forward to that.

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Congratulations to both of our winners, and thank you to everyone who entered.

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