Basket: Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry into the 2023 Short Story Competition. We were delighted to announce the winners at Darlington Library on 22nd April.
Congratulations to all the short listed authors who have their story included in the seventh short story anthology.
First Place – You Meet In An Inn by James Waite
Second Place – The Wolf At The Door by Rhiannon Snaith
Third Place – Token Gestures by Britta Benson
Highly Commended
Florrie Moore Is Innocent by Sarah Hunter
Predictive Text by Edward Barnfield
Run by Lorna Snuggs
Shortlisted Finalists
Invisible Me by Ace Baker
The Gift by Cathy Bryant
Trojan by Laura Buckley
Jamila And Me by Anna Byrne
The Man Was History by M. C. Campillo
Hornblower, Nylon Shirts And All That by Jo Derrick
Ever A Fool by Catherine Edmunds
Old Ghost by Martin Feekins
Looner by S.P. Hannaway
Blind Date by R. T. Hardwick
Beginner’s Luck by Ian Inglis
A Fallen Soldier Of The Great War by Robert Kibble
Shambles by Jo McCullock
A Ferry For Frogs by Adam Mclean
The Blind Shall See by June O’sullivan
Rebellion Of One by Elizabeth Ottosson
The Fallings by Libby Pearson
Homecoming 1975 by Alan Pilkington
A Fete Worse Than Death by Val Roberts
Seasons by John Simmonds
The Cage by Stephen D. Smith
A Lighthouse Of A Man by Teika Marija Smits
The Game by Yong Takahashi
The Last ’Bastian by Angela Townsend
Nora by Steve Wade
Thanks to Scott Bonner for these incredible photographs taken at our short story award ceremony at Darlington Library in April.
