Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the August Global Short Story Competition and writers from Norway and New Zealand have taken the honours.
The £100 first place prize goes to Seth Townley, of Bergen, Norway. Fiona says of Contemplating Breakfast: “I love it when a writer presents a bizarre scenario as completely normal and sustains this throughout the work, as this writer has done. The surreal lifestyle and totally grungy surroundings are presented with wry humour - this is what happens when life just knocks you down to the underbelly and you're just clinging on and shuffling through. Richard Farina wrote a book in the sixties called 'Been down so long it looks like up to me' and this story could very easily turn into linked scenes and anecdotes which would evolve into a very satisfying novel. Excellent.”
Sally Franicevich, of Auckland, New Zealand, is our £25 highly commended writer with her story Carole Anne. Fiona says: “This writer uses beautifully sparse and evocative language which creates a strong atmosphere from the first sentence. There is that uneasy edge which tells you that something has to go wrong somewhere, but for all that, there is enough surprise to keep the reader emotionally connected and involved. Engaging the five senses brings a story to life and evokes real emotional response and this story is well crafted and satisfying.”
The writers on the shortlist are:
Jonathan Elsom (for Blind Date)
Jonathan Elsom (for Many a Slip)
Philip Corwin, London, England
James Alexander Allen, Redhill, Surrey, England
Winning stories will be posted on www.inscribemedia.co.uk where you can enter October’s competition.
Well done to our successful writers.
John Dean
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