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2022 Competition Results

Thank you to everyone who entered our 2022 competitions. 

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Short Story

Winner: Arleen McCombie for her story "Persona Non Fucking Grata"

Runner-up: Colin Brzezicki for his story "A Calculated Risk"
Highly commended: Robert Campbell for his story "Now’s Not the Time" and Nicky Torode for her story "It’s 1980s down Morrison Again"

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Poetry

Winner: Hilary Otto for her poem "Please Concentrate"

Runner-up: Christopher M. James for his poem "Ma".
Highly commended: Helen Nancy Menielly for her poem "An Irish woman contemplates the language she never learned" and Pauline May for her poem "Stuttering Not Drowning".

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Congratulations to all, and thanks to judges VG Lee and John McCullough for all your hard work and agonising deliberations. 

 

See you next year! 

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