Judge
Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the May Global Short Story
Competition and the £100 first prize goes to a writer from India.
Mr Checkers is written by
Gaurav Singha Roy, of Akota, Vadodara, and Fiona says: “I was very impressed by this story and had to re-read it
immediately just to see where I had missed the clues! The writer of Mr Checkers
has talent and I would love to see more of their work.”
The runner up is Alison
Wassell, of St Helens, Merseyside, England, with Let’s Start Again of whose £25-winning
story Fiona says: “How wonderful! An understated and powerful story where the
human spirit actually triumphs - not in a show-stopping cataclysmic way but
with a quiet and determined dignity which every reader can relate to and stand
cheering at the satisfying rightness of the ending. A real pleasure.”
The
writers on the shortlist are:
Martin
McCaw, Walla Walla WA, United States
A C
Flory, Warrandyte, Nth Vic, Australia
Amanda O’Callaghan, Brisbane,
Australia
Katie Bishop, Surrey, BC,
Canada
Paul Maiden, Wolverhampton,
England (for The Mark of a Flame)
Steven Jenkins, Llanelli,
Carmathenshire, Wales
Emren Meroglu Bogota, Colombia
Winning stories will be posted
on www.globalshortstories.net Stories
can be entered into the July competition at the same address. The monthly
competition is run by Certys Limited, which is based in Darlington, County
Durhasm, England
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