Thank you to everyone who entered the Cambridge Prizes for Short Fiction. We are delighted to share the shortlists for both Flash Fiction and the Short Story.
Names of the winners are published below, followed by the shortlists.
Short stories and flash fiction will be published from September.
The Cambridge Short Story Prize
First: A Particulalry Subjective Experience – Brian R. Quinn
Second: Quarry – C J Garrow
Third: The Vale Cemetery – Ahana Banerji
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The Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize
First: Next Exit – Emily Rinkema
Second: Words and Sayings I’ve Actually Heard Spoken Out Loud During my Sixty-years on this Planet Arranged so as to Illustrate the Toxic / Lethal / Invisible Continuum they Help Perpetuate – Jan Kaneen
Third: Pretty Ghosts – Frances Gapper
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Shortlist for the Cambridge Prize for Short Stories (arranged alphabetically by author)
The Vale Cemetery – Ahana Banerji
Ebb – Robin Booth
Maud Cross, Augur – T. Eleanor Fuller
Circling – Joanna Garbutt
Quarry – C J Garrow
When We Were Young – Malcolm Heyhoe
A Particularly Subjective Experience – Brian Quinn
In Enemy Territory – Caitlin A. Quinn
Waterford Crystal – Dave Wakely
Todd – Emma Williams
Shortlist for the Cambridge Prize for Flash Fiction (arranged alphabetically by author)
Confetti Letter – Chris Cottom
A Cheater’s Guide to Falling in Love – Rachel Fung
Pretty Ghosts – Frances Gapper
Recital: Repeat from Memory – Linda Grierson-Irish
Words and Sayings I’ve Actually Heard Spoken Out Loud During my Sixty-years on this Planet Arranged so as to Illustrate the Toxic / Lethal / Invisible Continuum they Help Perpetuate – Jan Kaneen
Under a Night Sky in January – David Mathews
Drunks – Emma Neale
Primitive – Jo Withers
Next Exit – Emily Rinkema
Tangible and Touchable (between the inside and the outside) – Malin Stahl