Thank you to all entrants for sending stories to enable us to provide this competition. Our thanks also to Helen Baggott, our judge. Helen's feedback for each story will be published on the same page as the stories. You'll need to scroll down and this is in order to allow you to read the stories before reading the comments.
The winning entries will be published on our website before the end of the week and we welcome your comments, if you'd like to make any, about them.
If you would like to judge our Open Short Story Competition 2022 (a small fee is paid to the judge) please email Debbie at erewashwriterscomps2 at gmail.com
Please find below the result for this competition:
LONG LISTED ENTRIES
A few bad apples
Bending the Truth
Burning Desire
Chestnut Tree House
Curse of Eve
Dear Neighbour
Diamond Life
Easy Enough to Smile
Establishing the Provenance of Elderly Ladies
Flight Recorder
Grass Widow
Letting off Steam
Loving Antony
Missing Heritage
Queen of the Castle
Quiet Love
Remembering Lily
Second Chances
Serendipity
Sinking Water
Something in Common
Soon it will be spring
Strange Encounter
Summer Breeze
The Coalman's Daughter
The Pewter Thimble
The Runaway
The Sum of the Parts
SHORT LISTED ENTRIES
Burning Desire
Curse of Eve
Diamond Life
Easy Enough to Smile
Establishing the Provenance of Elderly Ladies
Flight Recorder
Grass Widow
Letting off Steam
Loving Antony
Missing Heritage
Quiet Love
Remembering Lily
Something in Common
The Coalman's Daughter
The Pewter Thimble
The Sum of the Parts
CONGRATULATIONS to the following five winners:
Fifth place – Easy enough to smile by Liz Andersen
Fourth place – Grass Widow by Tony Oswick
Third place – Quiet Love by Sam Szanto
Second place – The Sum of the Parts by Ann Abineri
First place – Something in Common by Valerie Bowes