Honours go to New Zealand and United States in writing competition

Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the May Global Short Story Competition and writers from New Zealand and the United States have taken the honours.
The £100 first place prize goes to Kate Daellenbach, of Wellington, New Zealand. Fiona says of The Parcel: “This is a quirky story and has an assured cinematic feel which is sustained very well throughout. The unanswered questions lingered in my thoughts long after I'd finished reading and re-reading it. It intrigues me, the anonymity of the city and the vivid cameos that are created in the rush of city life, where a cafe is an oasis, a place where people are always passing through. this writer has captured a moment of magic. Excellent .”

The £25 highly commended prize goes to Alexandra Apuzzo, of Clintondale, NY, United States, of whose story I met a girl at 3 a.m. Fiona says: “I loved the atmosphere of this story; late night loneliness in a bar has brought us so many tales, in books, movies and songs and this story is one of the most memorable that I've come across. There is nothing predictable about it, even when I went through it again, and the final 'quiet desperate whisper' encapsulated the whole strange episode.“


The writers on the shortlist are:

Vincent Chu, Cologne, Germany

Kieran Duddy, London, England

Maurice Said. Siggiewi, Malta

Kathryn Clark, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England

Miroslaw Henning, Radlin, Poland

Rebecca Dixon-Wright, Portsmouth, England

Mandy Huggins, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England

Rob Hawke
Ceri Lowe-Petraske, Bristol, England


Winning stories will be posted on www.inscribemedia.co.uk Well done to our successful writers.