Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the April Global Short Story Competition and writers from England and the United Arab Emirates have taken the honours.
The £100 first place prize goes to a writer from Richmond, Surrey, England. Fiona says of The Journey to Hereafter, or Two Lives, by Charlotte Soares: “This writer has managed to blend and contrast sci fi with myth without it seeming at any point contrived or awkward.
“The lyricism of the prose carries the mythical part of the story with subtle phraseology and natural beauty, and the sci fi part of the story has its own different lyricism. The use of language - the harsh sounds, the jarring consonants and vowels paint a stark picture by way of contrast. Excellent, and well worth reading.”
Our £25 highly commended story is Ummi by Mark Shadwell of Dubai, in the UAE, of which Fiona says: “What a wonderful story! It isn't easy to take a reader on a convincing journey through the portals of logic and sanity into the slightly unbalanced world of someone's mind. But this writer has done exactly that, sustaining a convincing inner dialogue which crackles with wit and humour as well as being hauntingly dark.”
Fiona also add: “Interesting lot of stories this time - very hard to come up with just two.”
The writers on the shortlist are:
Liz Berg, Cornwall, England
Mike Woodhouse, Mittagong, NSW, Australia
Alen Kapidzic, Rijeka, Croatia
Gillian Brown., France
Dannielle Hedlund, Elbert, Colorado, Unied States
Winning stories will be posted on www.inscribemedia.co.uk Well done to our successful writers. You can enter June’s competition at the same address.
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