12 - 28 June 2025

Short Story Competition

Budding authors and creative writers – share your stories with us for a chance to appear in a published anthology and take home a cash prize.  There is no theme to the competition.

The 2025 short story competition will close on 31 July 2025. You can enter now by clicking HERE. 

Congratulations to the winners and all the shortlisted writers for our 2024 Crossing the Tees Short Story Competition. The winners were announced at an award ceremony at Seaton Carew Community Hub hosted by Bob Fischer. All the shortlisted stories are published in the eighth anthology which will be available to borrow from libraries and buy from Drake the Bookshop and Book Corner, Saltburn.

Thanks to Scott Bonner for taking photographs to commemorate the occasion.

The winners are…

First Place – Ten Pin by Penny Blackburn

 Second Place – The Photo by Mark Adams

Third Place –  Cinnamon by Timothy Hemmings

Highly Commended

 Swimming With Jellyfish by Hilary Elder

Conjuring A Silver Thread by Chris Sewart

The Redoubtable Bogdan by James Waite

Shortlisted Finalists

Autodidact by Edward Barnfield

The Man Who by C.J. Brock

 Dream Boy by M.C. Campillo

Peugeot 806 by Luke Lewin Davies

Watching The Invisible by Lyndsey Dickinson

Clop And I by Sian Fossey

An Owl Called Carmel by Eric Foster

Poor Princess by Gary Fry

Whippet by Elaine Gardner

What A Way to End It All by Faith Hughes

Where Is Terri? by Joan Jackson

The Chapel by Y.D. Jones

Worn by Sarah Leppington

Beware The Ides Of March by Stephen Murphy

Was I? by Alan Pickthall

Dolly Blue by Alan Pilkington

My Summer Of Blood by Sue Ruben

The Princess And The Frog by Keven Shevels

Five Seats Together, Please by Mark Stephenson

At The Hip by Matthew Ewan Thomas

An Act Of Kindness by Jack Usher

Parisa by Eileen Webb

The Message Tree by J.R. Whitbourn

The Scuffèd Heart (La Vie Sans Rose) by Barnaby Wick

Take a look at last years results

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12 - 28 June 2025