Competitions
Riptide International Short Story Competition 2010
We are very pleased to announce the long-list and the short list for the Riptide Short Story Prize 2010.
We’d like to thank everyone who entered the competition. All of the stories entered were read and re-read by a team of readers who selected thirty to go forward to our overall judge – novelist and short story writer Philip Hensher.
SHORT- LIST
| Ward 51: Wings | Kristen Bailey |
| My Brother, The Fly | Amy Bartlett |
| Two and Two Make Five | Nel Boswood |
| Times Like These | Eric Devine |
| Just For Tourists | Dominque Jackson |
| I’d Do Anything | Jenny Knight |
| Secrets on the Bowery | Freda Love Smith |
| The Lifeguard | Amy Shuckburgh |
| Kite Season | Anita Sivakumaran |
| What You Will | Sheena Wilkinson |
LONG LIST
| Choices | Annemarie Allan |
| Ward 51: Wings | Kristen Bailey |
| My Brother, the Fly | Amy Bartlett |
| Scrapbook Mother | Nel Boswood |
| Two and Two Make Five | Nel Boswood |
| Ward Round | Tanvir Bush |
| The Nature of the Stone | Rebecca Camu |
| The Viper | Will Davis |
| Times Like These | Eric Devine |
| Shadows | David G Gibson |
| Buried | Detta Guerrini |
| Wild Animals | A M Howcroft |
| Just for Tourists | Dominique Jackson |
| I’d Do Anything | Jenny Knight |
| Longing / Unbelonging | Anna Lunk |
| Secrets on the Bowery | Freda Love Smith |
| The Marble Run | Victoria McQuillan |
| Sisterhood | Natasha Mirzoian |
| Handsome | Guy Mitchell |
| Necropolis | Philip Murnin |
| One Breath Below | Mihaela Nicolescu |
| Don’t Breathe a Word | Joanna Pocock |
| A Bracelet of Bright Hair | Jane Ryan |
| Looking for Marmaduke | Saskia Sarginson |
| Rolling with a Shank | Nancy Saunders |
| Atlantic Breaker | E C Seaman |
| The Lifeguard | Amy Shuckburgh |
| Pocketknife and a Pen | Diane Simonelli |
| Kite Season | Anita Sivakumaran |
| What You Will | Sheena Wilkinson |
The launch and prize-giving ceremony will be held on November 2nd at Exeter Central Library as part of Exeter Children’s Literature Festival.
