And the results are in!
Huge congratulations to our winning and highly commended authors (listed alphabetically by story title):
- First Prize: 'Just a Word to the Snowblind' by Jan Kaneen
- Second Prize: 'Why my mother-in-law sits in the corner sucking leftover chicken bones' by Marie Gethins
- Third Prize: 'Marszałkowska Street, Warsaw, 1993' by Sherry Morris
- Third Prize: 'Things We Learned About Sarajevo During the Siege' by Emma Phillips
- Highly Commended: 'birds of paradise (see also: dumb, stupid birds)' by Pippa O’Driscoll
- Highly Commended: 'Fat Caterpillars' by Pippa O’Driscoll
- Highly Commended: 'Here the Stream Floods' by Andrew Deathe
- Highly Commended: 'Richter Scale 8' by Slawka G. Scarso
- Highly Commended: 'Siren’s Song' by Hannah Whiteoak
- Highly Commended: 'When Grief Auditions' by Tommy Dean
The winning and highly commended stories can be read here and will appear in the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.
Thank you again to our four judges, Christopher Allen, Joanna Campbell, Tracy Fells and Damhnait Monaghan. Their job this year was extremely difficult, with an extra round of voting required to reach our final ten. In the end, they were unable to separate the two stories vying for third place and we felt the fairest thing would be to award two third place prizes.
Congratulations again to all our prize-winning and highly commended authors, and to all those who were shortlisted. And, a big thank you to everyone who entered this year’s competition and trusted us with their stories.