Basket: 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
