Thank you to everyone who entered. We received 125 entries this time, and it was a pleasure to read them all.
If your story title appears below, congratulations! Please don’t tell us if you’re longlisted though, as we’re still reading anonymously!
- A Recipe for Domestic Abuse
- A Recipe for Mango Salsa to Serve at Your Husband’s Work Barbecue
- A Tale of Two Mangoes
- Bufeo Colorado
- Carpe Diem
- Cost of Progress
- Do Not Open Anything Until You’ve Paid For It
- Flesh and Blood
- Fruitless
- Her Mango
- Kitchen Warfare
- Last Chance to See the Only Mango in the World
- Lest We Perish
- Mangoes
- Memorabilia
- Mum Eats Mangoes in the Summer
- My American Boyfriend Dehydrates the Damned Mangoes
- Only Some Girls Eat Mango in Bradford
- Other People’s Houses
- Relationship with Mangoes
- Ripening
- Still Life with Mangoes
- Survive
- Sweet Flesh
- Tattoos of Neglect
- The Delicate Chemical Imbalance of Life
- The First Fruit of the Season
- The Mango in Her Lunchbox
- The Memory of Mango
- The Taste of Mango
- The Journey to Perfect Ripeness is Greater than the Width of an Ocean
- There Are So Few Soft Things
- What Lies Beneath
- When the Girl on Seventh Avenue Offers You a Mango
We’ll announce the shortlist by 20th July… Watch this space, and good luck!