The Results!
Firstly, thank you to everyone who entered our competition this year. With over 140 entries submitted, you’ve enabled us to donate over £160 to the Severn Hospice this year. But to the nitty-gritty: the winners. Congratulations go to:
First Prize – £200 – Douglas Bruton from the Borders for Mountains and Pebbles and Sand
Douglas Bruton finds stories in his pockets and he does not know who put them there. He takes them out and polishes them and then gifts them to passers by. Sometimes he sends them to competitions and magazines. He has been published in many nice places, including The Eildon Tree, Transmission, The Delinquent, Grasslimb Journal, The Blood Orange Review, The Vestal Review, Storyglossia, Ranfurly Review, The Smoking Poet, Interpreter’s House, Flash Magazine, Brittle Star Magazine, The Irish Literary Review and Fiction Attic Press.
Second Prize – £100 – Carol Stone from Nottinghamshire for Yesterday’s Pastries
Yesterday’s Pastries” is Carol’s first competition win. Carol is currently sweating over an anthology of horror stories in between working as a learning disability nurse.
Third Prize – £50 – Jacqueline Cooper from West Yorkshire for Lasting Impression
Jacqui Cooper currently lives in Yorkshire with her husband, a cat and a snake. The cat, she wanted, the snake, well that’s another story. She has always written but didn’t always submit her stories – until a couple of years ago when she gave herself a good talking to. Since then she has been published in People’s Friend and Take a Break. She has won the Henshaw Press short story competition and been placed or short listed in various others, including runner up in the inaugural 2015 Ann Summers short story competition. She also has a story in the Romantic Novelists Association anthology, Truly Madly, Deeply.
Click on the titles to read the entries. All previous winners of our short story competition over the years can be found by following this link: https://wrekinwriters.wordpress.com/category/previous-doris-gooderson-competition-results-winners/
The longlisted entries were:
It’s What We Would Have Wanted
Life
White Feather
The Bond
An old Man Fishing
Things they Say
Mountains and pebbles and sand
Brum
Lasting Impression
The Bees Knees
Urban nightmare
Remembering
Amelia the frog goddess
If wishes were horses
Irony
Yesterday’s pastries
Paris, side by side
Squirrels
Empty bed
Tillys account
White feathers and snow angel
McCabe
Another pair of hands
Pretty in pink
A new app
Breaking the chains
Daisy’s decision
Light and time
And look out for the 2017 Doris Gooderson Short Story competition, being launched in the next few months.
Wrekin Writers 