Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the March Global Short Story Competition and the honours go to authors from Australia and England.
The £100 first place prize goes to Lucy Bignall, of Pullenvale, Queensland, Australia, for Three Little Girls, of which Fiona says: “What a beautiful, lyrical story! The narrative undulates between past and present with skill and a real engagement of emotion. When I say emotion, I mean a whole spectrum of emotions; love, fondness, regret, yearning and complete denial. The comfortable present, the distant joy of the past - this story captures a whole lifetime with secrets buried so deep they cannot be allowed to re-surface. Wonderful!”
The £25 highly commended prize goes to Libby Thompson, of Darlington in County Durham, England, for Dreaming of White Sliced, of which Fiona says: “I love the slightly bonkers tone of this story. Poor old Edie Nuttall! Everyone knows someone like this, everyone dreads a husband like William Nuttall, and the understated fury builds the narrative utterly convincingly. Dark humour and very well written.”
The writers on the shortlist were:
Annette Abraminko, Baden Wurtemburg, Germany
Maria Cray, Bergamo, Italy
Sue Dawes, Wivenhoe, Colchester, England
Virginie Tozzo, France
Well done to our successful writers.
You can enter the competition via its new home www.inscribemedia.co.uk
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