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.