Please join me in congratulating the winners of the
2011 Spilling Short Story Prize
1st Prize – £250, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
2nd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
3rd Prize – £50, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
Shortlisted Entries – publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
Honorable Mentions – publication in Spilling Ink Review online (pending author agreement)
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1st Place
Iain Paton
Handling Snakes
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2nd Place
Jamie Waller
The Boy Who Died in Vang Vieng
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3rd Place
Daniela I. Norris
Gathering Storm
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Shortlisted
Nicola Belte – The Bull Boys
Raylene Brown – At Last, A Seed in the Hollow Womb
W.F. Lantry – Origins
Harry McDonald – Dead Authors
James Murray – Avy and the Fish
Kate Smith – Damascus Road
Patrick Sung – The Death of the Star Gazer
Sammy Wright -Malcolm
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Honorable Mention
Emily Bamford – Up in Smoke
Bryan Dye – Sugar
Sarah Evans – Duopoly
Diana Filar – Things That Are Hard to Forget
Gill Hoffs – Firework Sand
Karen Jones – Colouring In
Benjamin Middleton – Actors
Mark Sheerin – The Bowie Act
James Smart – Therapy
Daan Spijer – Cul de sac
Mike Wendling – Ethics Exam
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The winning and shortlisted entries will appear in our annual print anthology due for publication November, 2011. Honorable Mentions will appear in
Spilling Ink Review: Issue 6 (pending author agreement).
Thank you to all who participated in the Short Story Prize.
