July 2022 – Long List

We’re expecting a very busy second half of this year!

We’re working with Tania Hershman, editor of the superb ShortStopsUK listings website, on a really exciting project – take a look here for more details.

As well as that, we have now opened up our 4 for 3 special offer on ALL of our competitions, and will keep that open for the rest of the year. For more information – and to enter your stories – check out our article here. (The next deadline is for our 500-word flash competiton, which comes at the end of this month.)

And if you haven’t done so yet, there’s still time to order our latest short story print anthology, How Far The Distance. It’s a strictly limited print run, and there are only a handfull of copies left. Just £12 + P&P for a beautiful anthology of 34 winning and short-listed stories submitted between August 2020 and October 2021.

But for now, back to our July Short Story Competition, and we’re delighted to announce the long list today. Congratulations to the following authors:

Annemarie Allen
Matt Biggs
Katherine Birditt
Dianne Bown-Wilson
David Clensy
Amelia Coulon
Kit Derrick
James Dwyer
Carolyn Eyles
Heather Haigh
Peter Hankins
Christina Hennemann
Steve Hopper
Arunima Hoskote
Denny Jace
Tesni Jenkins
Gwenda Major
Rex McGregor
Kirily McKellor
Rosie Morris
Jackie Morrison
Emma J Myatt
TSD Osborne
Denarii Peters
Tracey-Anne Plater
Anthony Powers
Clare Saxby
Ruth Sedar
Liane Smith
Tracy Stevenson
Hannah Tawn
Varda Tully
Mandy Wheeler
Jonathan Williams

Well done to you all for making the long list stage. The short list and the three winning stories will be published here on the website soon.