Thank you to everyone who entered — and if your story title appears below, congratulations! Please don’t tell us if you’re longlisted though, as we’re still reading anonymously!
- 4’33” Performed on a Summer’s Day in 433 words
- A Lone Musician is Not Always a Soloist
- A Shoebox Full of Love Letters
- A SiMPle ScaLe
- Bruce Springsteen Always Make Me Think of Chicken
- Debbie Harry Saved My Life
- Forgetting to Heal
- If Our Relationship Were a Song
- Imposter Madonna
- Intermezzo
- Kaleidoscope
- Lambs of God
- Loomer
- Maybe I’m Amazed
- Mayim
- Not Every ‘Crazy Diamond’ Can Shine
- On the Tideline, a Piano
- Perfectionment
- Shapes of Sound
- Sonata for a Son
- Songs are Like Tattoos
- The Big One
- The Spaces Between
- Vitula
- What Bach Tastes Like
We’ll announce the shortlist by the end of August… Good luck!