Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners
for the December Global Short Story Competition and writers from Spain and
France have taken the honours.
The £100 first place prize goes to Johanna
Bergstrom, of Malaga, Spain, of whose story The Bitch Next Door Fiona says: “This is a fast paced
intense story, exploring preconceptions and assumptions about other people and
their actions. The way events are distorted is given a neat twist at the end -
the Chinese whispers that gossip thrives on are very well done - and this is wholly
believable and satisfying.”
Our highly commended runner up is Ann Hebert, of St Andre-de-Najac in Aveyron, France, who wins £25 for The Letter.
Fiona says: “Our secrets will always
come to light eventually, even if sometimes they stay hidden until death. This
compassionate and thoughtful story shows the quite astonishing parallel between
a young woman's present pretences and her dead mother's deep buried past. It is
an intriguing story which creates a strong visual picture and I could see it
being televised very successfully.”
The writers on the shortlist are:
Thomas Smith, Sunderland, England
Alex Reece Abbott, York, England
Eowyn O’Connor
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.
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