It’s good to be back after our break in December and seems like everyone missed us as we’ve had the most entries in ages this month! 116 stories were submitted, meaning the cash prizes are £174 for 1st place and £116 for second, plus the People’s Prize which will be announced along with the results.
Thanks so much to everyone who sent us their words. We enjoyed reading them all. Well done to our longlist below. No telling which is yours though!
Longlisted Stories
- A Failure of Assumptions
- Bottle
- Bottle Fed
- Bottled Objects
- Bottled Up
- Bottling It Up
- Contained in a Bottle
- Don’t bottle it: a vacation from university and the real cost of pumpjack oil drilling in Alberta, August 16th 1988
- Formula
- Grace
- Grandpa’s Legacy
- I unwrap a bottle of Tuscan herb infused olive oil, untie the white bow
- Life in Shades: A Retrospective
- Manningtree, Essex 1645
- Not Even 19 bottles of Jamaican Rum Can Please Her
- One Bluebottle on a Windowsill
- One Hundred Words of Summer
- Open Day At The Bottle Factory – David Shows His Daughter The Place Where He Is God
- Preservation
- Returning to Aleppo
- Some inevitable consequences of hatred
- Splintering Hearts
- St. Catherine’s Orphans
- Still Standing
- Stop
- The Anatomist’s Bride
- The Perfumier’s Love Letter
- The Ruby Anniversary
- The Weight of Memory
- Treading on Memory in the Bottles’ Graveyard
- Upcycling Can Save Lives
- Wine-tasting for Beginners
Good luck everyone! We’ll have the shortlist on Monday.