Winners: short story competition 2011/12

Exeter Writers

Short Story Competition 2012 – The Results

The stories have been read and the judging is completed. We thank all of you who entered and commiserate with those who were not placed. There were four prizes this year – the usual first, second and third prizes, plus the Devon Prize. The winning stories can be read here (click the links) and we congratulate you all.

First prize
Driftwood by Jo Barker Scott

Second prize
Down came a blackbird by Tracy Fells

Third prize
The bites by Giovanna Iozzi

Devon prize
Long legged balloons by Andrew Lavender

Runners-up: (not in order of preference)
Five things by Mary Bonner
A head for heights by Ms S Golden
The memory of tall grass by Sarah Hegarty
Swollen by Giovanna Iozzi
Tyndrum gold rush by Ann Lilley