The Cambridge Prizes 2025

The Cambridge Prizes for Short Fiction will be open to subimssions in the summer.

Below, please find names of the winners from 2024.

The Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024

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 2024

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