Honours go to writers from Canada and France in competition

Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the June Global Short Story Competition and writers from Canada and France have taken the honours.
The £100 first place prize goes to Robert Smith, of Ontario, Canada, for Move Over Sherlock of which Fiona says: “This story is an engaging look at the world through the eyes of someone who feels himself to be an outsider. It is difficult to convey this viewpoint successfully but the writer has done just this. the sense of self is succinctly and wittily maintained. The perceived difficulties of one with ADD are turned on their head by one who actually lives with it, and he comes across as a believable and quirky individual who is actually streets ahead of those who worry about him. Excellent.”
Our highly commended runner up is Gillian Brown, of Peyriac de Mer, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, who wins £25. Fiona says of Do Re Mi : “The vagaries of living in the shadow of a famous parent are well documented and in this story Joanna tries to deal with it as best she can. Trying to please a parent is an endless task and when that parent has been phenomenally talented, and is now dead, one would expect Joanna to somehow crumble. However, she finally acknowledges the nature of her own talent and embraces it with gusto and finds herself joyfully closer to her adored mother simply by being herself.”
The writers on the shortlist are:
Keith Newton, Ontario, Canada
Emily Franke, Eartham, West Sussex, England
Chris Murray, Manchester, England
Deborah Walter, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lizzie Horton
Winning stories will be posted on www.inscribemedia.co.uk Well done to our successful writers. You can enter the latest competition at the same address.

John Dean