Winners & Judge’s Favourite
Congratulations to the following winners and Favourites of the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2018.
1st place
Dead Man’s Dinner – Mark Left
2nd place
Call Me Leroy – Isla Telford
3rd place
Hold Fast – Emma Hutton
Judge’s Favourite
- Angela Readman: Mr Patchouli – Fiona Ritchie Walker
- CG Menon: These Ithacas – James Davidson
- Rupert Dastur: Bury Beach – Rebecca F John
We received 804 entries in total and are grateful to all short story writers who have made this competition possible.
Details of the Cambridge Prize 2019 will be released in a few months and we hope you’ll consider sending us your work.
With thanks from all the judges and the TSS team.
Shortlist
Congratulations to the writers of these twenty-five exceptional short stories. All stories in this list will be published in an anthology due later in the year.
Short Stories are listed alphabetically. You are welcome to share the news of your Shortlisting, but please do not identify your specific story, as judging is still underway. Anonymity remains essential at this stage of the competition.
The winners will be announced by 30th April 2019.
If your story is on this list, but has been published elsewhere , please email immediately to withdraw your work. Please note that we do intend to publish all short stories on this list, so please do withdraw your work from other competitions or journals if necessary.
After it Happened – Hannah Persaud
Another Girl – Emma Hutton
Arctic Charr – Lisa Phillips
Bebop and the Broken Spaceship – Luoise Finnigan
Bury Beach – Rebecca F John
Call Me Leroy – Isla Telford
Cortona – Lucie McKnight Hardy
Cubicle – Ruth Guthrie
Dead Man’s Dinner – Mark Left
Every Shiny Thing on Fire – Keren Heenan
Hold Fast – Emma Hutton
Hunted – Alison Woodhouse
Lily Mortis – Sonja Murphy
Missing Girl, 5, Gone Fifteen Months – Linda Mannheim
Mr Patchouli – Fiona Ritchie Walker
Nine to Five – Charlotte Wührer
Shame – James Hatton
Somewhere to Go – Sarah Salway
The Coast of Africa – Julie Cruickshank
The Note on the Door – Joshua Rigby
The Sausage Makers Daughter – Jane Fraser
These Ithacas – James Davidson
To Live – Hannah Retallick
Tribal Marks – Marie Gethins
When Cocoa Ripe It Must Bust – Jeda Pearl
Longlist
Short Stories are listed alphabetically. You are welcome to share the news of your longlisting, but please do not identify your specific story, as judging is still underway. Anonymity remains essential at this stage of the competition.
The Shortlist will be announced by 15th April 2019. If your story is published elsewhere by this date, please email to withdraw your work.
Many thanks to all those who entered.
A Panda Appeared in Our Street – David Hartley
After it Happened – Hannah Persaud
Another Girl – Emma Hutton
Arctic Charr – Lisa Phillips
Are We There Yet? – Fiona Thackery
Bamboo and Rattan – Lynne Blackwood
Bebop and the Broken Spaceship – Luoise Finnigan
Blowing Bubbles – Maggie Last
Bury Beach – Rebecca F John
Call Me Leroy – Isla Telford
Cortona – Lucie McKnight Hardy
Counting Flowers – Leslie Muzingo
Cubicle – Ruth Guthrie
Dead Man’s Dinner – Mark Left
Degrees of Certainty – Amy Chandler
Drowning – Giselle Leeb
Every Shiny Thing on Fire – Keren Heenan
First Love – Reshma Ruia
From Here I Can barely See Your Face – Nicole Yurcaba
Grand National Day at the Bull and Drum – Brian Kirk
Hold Fast – Emma Hutton
Hunted – Alison Woodhouse
Johannesburg – Joe Bedford
Knuckles of Butter – Chelsea Fowler
La Patrona – Sarah Edghill
Lily Mortis – Sonja Murphy
Missing Girl, 5, Gone Fifteen Months – Linda Mannheim
Mr Patchouli – Fiona Ritchie Walker
Nine to Five – Charlotte Wührer
Ninety percent Halal – Masturah Alatas
Rise, Vivian – Kerry Hood
Shame – James Hatton
Somewhere to Go – Sarah Salway
The Actual Son of God – Alice Stride
The Baby – Kathleen Mac Mahon
The Coast of Africa – Julie Cruickshank
The First and Second Runners – Max Sydney-Smith
The Girl on the Wasteland – Louise Amos
The King Wave – Nicki Blake
The Lives of a Blank Piece of Paper – Laure Van Rensburg
The No Soul Hole – Rory Duffy
The Note on the Door – Joshua Rigby
The Sausage Makers Daughter – Jane Fraser
The Soupstone – Fancoise Harbey
These Ithacas – James Davidson
These Journeys Made at Night – Matthew G. Rees
To Live – Hannah Retallick
Tribal Marks – Marie Gethins
When Cocoa Ripe It Must Bust – Jeda Pearl
Wrens – Joanne Leonard