We received a whopping 166 entries for this month’s WILD theme! So the cash prizes are £249 for first place and £166 for second. Plus there’s the surprise People’s Prize up for grabs too.
Thanks so much to everyone that entered – we have read a lot of stories about wolves this month!
We have a longlist of 47 stories and we are now re-reading and debating to get to our shortlist of 10, which will be published on Monday. We received a few stories this month that had the same title so if you’re wondering if your story is on this list, unless you have received notification in Submittable that you haven’t been longlisted…it is!
Well done to the writers of these stories. No telling anyone which one is yours though!
Monthly Micro Longlist
- 24th November – Reading Gaol
- A Line In The Moonlight
- A Snorkeller’s Song
- A Wildlife Documentary in a quiet English village – a few days before Monday 8th March 2021
- After Imbolc
- After the funeral
- Aftermath
- An unexpected caller
- Angie’s Wilderness Affinity
- As the Lights Faded
- Booming Ideas
- Boundary Hunters
- Bring in the Clowns
- Cornered
- Dandelion
- Dearly Departed
- Dear at the Winter Solstice
- Gift for a Phantom Grandchild
- Girl, you’ll be a woman soon
- How to Sow a Wildflower Meadow
- Howl
- I cast a wish upon the tide
- I Find The Beeskin Hanging Behind The Bathroom Door
- I have become many things
- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
- I Remember When You Were a Kestrel, My Love
- Inside Out
- Jonny
- Jungle Line
- Le Pain Maudit – Pont-Saint-Esprit 15 August 1951
- Lost in the wilderness
- Love and Lipstick
- My Dreams Are Wild
- Nina Kept Spinning
- Observations on the Impact of Captivity
- Our love is a menagerie
- Rewilding
- The Lone Wolf
- The significance of horses in the dreams of young girls
- The squall
- The Taming of Jenny Wren
- Werewolves in the Glen
- What Rachel Needs
- Where the Wild Thing Was
- Wild horses couldn’t drag me
- Wild Through the Generations
- Winter was always your Feral Season