Award winning stories
These are stories or short pieces that have won prizes or been short-listed, long-listed, commended, etc. Award winners and near award winners. What someone called my "small accomplishments". I've listed them in chronological order, the latest at the top.
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2021
Da
Short Listed - 2021 To Hull And Back Short Story Competition
September 2021
Drawing a Line Under the Dog
Long Listed - Exeter Writers 2021 Short Story Competition
April 2021
Drawing a Line under the Dog
Short Listed - January 2021 Cranked Anvil Short Story Competition
February 2021
Booboo
3rd PRIZE - 2020 Retreat West Short Story Competition
February 2021
Drawing a Line under the Dog
Long Listed - 2021 Fiction Factory Short Story Competition
January 2021
2020
Drawing a Line under the Dog
Short Listed - Exeter Story Prize 2020
December 2020
Booboo
Long Listed - Fiction Factory Annual Short Story Competition 2019-20
April 2020
Safe Passage
Long Listed - Retreat West Microfiction Competition
February 2020
2019
Booboo
Short Listed - Exeter Story Prize
November 2019
The Most Beautiful Thing She Has Ever Seen
Short Listed - Cranked Anvil July 2019 Short Story Competition
August 2019
The Note
Short Listed - Momaya Press Short Story Competition 2019
June 2019
Crow
Long Listed - Cranked Anvil April 2019 Short Story Competition
May 2019
2018
A Visit from the Vampires
Short Listed - Earlyworks Press 2018 Short Story Competition
December 2018
Rats
Short Listed - Earlyworks Press Flash Fiction Competition 2018
November 2018
Lips
FIRST PRIZE WINNER - £1,000 To Hull And Back Short Story Competition
September 2018
Long listed - Reflex Fiction (website)
August 2018
Cows
FIRST PRIZE WINNER (£500) - Dorset Fiction Award June 2018
July 2018
The Ten Tests of Secret Love
Short Listed - 2018 Coleford Festival of Words Short Story Competition
July 2018
Iodine
Highly Commended by Bangor Literary Journal
February 2018
2017
How to Improve Productivity
Short Listed and Commended - October 2017 Dorset Fiction Award
November 2017
Sunday Morning
Long listed - 2017 InkTears Flash Fiction Contest
October 2017
The First time at Her Place
Short Listed, Earlyworks Press 2017 Flash Fiction Competition
October 2017
Orly
Short listed, commended and published online - Dorset Fiction Award
July 2017
The Feather
Long listed Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Summer 2017 Competition
July 2017
Belinda's Diets
Short Listed National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand Micro Madness
May 2017
Long Listed Reflex Fiction website
May 2017
Da
£1,000 First Prize Winner 2016 Inktears Short Story Contest
March 2017
Short Listed 101Words website Contest 22
January 2017
2016
The River
Short Listed - The Short Story website Flash 500 Competition winter 2016
December 2016
The River
Long listed - Inktears 2016 Flash Fiction Competition
October 2016
That Summer
Short Listed - Earlyworks Press 2016 flash fiction competition
October 2016
Da
Short Listed - The Short Story website Short Story 2000 competition
October 2016
Skin
Short listed - The Short Story website Flash Fiction Competition autumn 2016
September 2016
Dear Sis
Short listed - 2016 Chorley and District Writers' Circle short story competition
September 2016
The Night Ape
Short listed - 2016 To Hull and Back short story competition
September 2016
The White Board
Short listed - The Short Story (website) Flash Fiction Competition June 2016
August 2016
The Note
Short listed - Raging Aardvark Twisted Tales
July 2016
Da
Short listed - 2016 Chipping Norton LitFest Short Story Competition
March 2016
Sunday Morning
Long Listed - multi-story.co.uk flash fiction competition
January 2016
2015
True
Special Mention - Hull and Back 2015 Short Story Competition
September 2015
Strange Fruit - An Imagining
Runner Up - 2015 Gloucestershire Writers' Network short story competition
Decision - August 2015. Read by the actor Moses Hardwick at the 2015 Cheltenham Literature Festival on 11 October - here on YouTube
True
Short listed & Commended - The Yeovil Literary Prize 2015
July 2015
Lips
Long Listed - Bath Short Story Award
June 2015
Sensitive
Winner (First Prize) - Worcestershire Literary Festival Flash Fiction Award
May 2015
Moustache
Runner-up - Earlyworks Press flash fiction competition
February 2015
The River
Long Listed - Bare Fiction Magazine Short Story Award
February 2015
2014
The Night Ape
First prize - Momaya Press annual Short Story Competition 2014 (theme - captivity)
September 2014
She Woke First
Finalist - Flash-Lit Fiction FLF14
September 2014
The Book
Second Prize - multi-story.co.uk short story competition
June 2014
2013
Statistics
Short listed - Earlyworks Press comedy competition
September 2013
The Note
Short listed - Earlyworks Press comedy competition
September 2013
The Open Door
Second Prize - Momaya Press Annual Short Story Competition 2014 (theme - music)
August 2013
The Decision
Short listed - Earlyworks Press flash fiction competition
August 2013
Thursday Evening
Short listed - Earlyworks Press flash fiction competition
August 2013
The Cricket Bat
Commended - Graffiti magazine short story competition
2013
The Valley
Commended - Graffiti magazine short story competition
August 2013
The Song
Runner-up - Gloucestershire Writers' Network short story award 2014 (theme - memory)
August 2013
Runner-up - multi.story.co.uk crime/mystery short story competition
April 2013
Wednesday
Long listed - multi.story.co.uk short story competition
March 2013
Commendation - Little House Creative Workshops flash fiction competition
February 2013
2012
Second prize - multi.story.co.uk flash fiction competition
November 2012