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
where you can also enter the July competition. Well done to our successful
writers.
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