Thanks so much to everyone who sent stories for our final annual prize. We’ve been busy reading the several hundred entries we received! Many congratulations to the writers of the following stories – no telling which is yours though as reading remains anonymous through the whole process.
In Submittable, we have to let people who have been long listed know individually so you may not get your notification in there until later today or tomorrow.
Micro Fiction Longlist
- A Woman Showed Up at a Mario Kart Competition in a Wedding Dress
- Another Man’s Treasure
- Buddleia Song
- Breadcrumbs
- Bully
- Catch
- Constant Craving
- Dearly Beloved
- Dwindling Darling
- Farewell to Anger
- Iceberg
- Manchester Fishing
- Postcard from Portugal
- Shortcut
- Something Floral
- The Worst, Times Two, Wouldn’t Have Happened
- Three Questions, One Answer
- Valentine
- Warning Signs
- Watermark
- When is a Bargain not a Bargain?
- Why, Mum?
Flash Fiction Longlist
- A Face in the Crowd
- A Fullstop in Time
- A Perfect Day for Banana Pudding
- Beach Pick-Up
- Contamination
- Damnation
- Dead Man’s Shoes
- Elegy for a Lost Cat
- Find Shelter
- For a Time, I
- Gathering
- Holding Out
- Honeymoon
- Honeysuckle and Bindweed
- I Never Intended to Visit the Circus
- In Situ
- Insects Never Worry About the Way Home
- Laundry
- Learning How to Mind the Gap
- Little Boys Have Need of Wings
- Mr Pearl
- O Sole Mio
- Perfection
- Proof
- Recipe for Almond Burfi
- Red is the Soundtrack to Her Life
- Song-flight
- Squeaky Clean Enlightenment
- Surfaces
- Swan Song
- The Contortionist and Her Son
- The Goalless Draw
- The Hunter in the Flood
- The Language of Dying Crows
- The Lightship
- The Matter with Shapes
- The Milk Carton Girl
- The Sand Between Her Toes
- The Song of Me
- The Ungirl
- Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Monument to a Failed Relationship
- Unfinished Business
- We Should Never Have Had Him Neutered
- Wild
Short Story Longlist
- A Different Route to the Same Place
- A Wild Horse on Leith Walk
- All About My Mother
- All Their Secrets
- At the End
- Brenda’s Caff
- Cuterus Uterus
- Even the Silence
- Far Cry From Edgar
- Hero of Electrification
- High-Intensity Interval Training
- In My Left Hand
- Jane and Autumn
- On Sea Glass and Selkies
- One Last Evening at the Paradise Club
- Patches
- Pedigree
- Rachel’s Mother
- Reflections of a Mature Woman Who Took an Unfortunate Tumble
- Salt Colonies
- Superheroes and the World Turned Upside Down
- Tat
- The Mumbai Theme Tune
- The Ocean is a Desert
- The Selection
- The Resident of Renfield Rectory
- Unravelling
- Young Blood
Good luck for the next round, everyone! We’ll have the shortlist in January.