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Results - short story competition 2013/14

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Exeter Writers are delighted to announce the results of this year's short story competition.  Many thanks to everyone who entered. Commiserations to those whose stories weren't placed, and many congratulations to our winners: First prize - Dancing the Animals by Tracey Glasspool  Second prize - Bigger than the Wind by Jim Kroepfl Third prize - The Front Line by Jim Kroepfl Tracey Glasspool also wins the Devon prize. Short listed (in alphabetical order):   About love - Michelle Crowther   Bitten - Sophie Hampton   Bone hard ground - Ken Elkes   Debt - Tom Vowler   Phosphorescence - Rowena MacDonald   The Empress of Poland - Filipa Komuro   The whereabouts of Cissy Flood - Sharon Boyle The final judging

1st Prize (2013/14) - Dancing the Animals by Tracey Glasspool

Dancing The Animals by Tracey Glasspool “Ulfa? Ulfa!” I can hear Granna in the distance. She’s calling me home but I want to stay. The forest has become my refuge again. Here, amongst the tangle of trees, I can drown out the voices which followed me; teasing me, taunting me, calling me ghost-eyes. Mama says I should be proud of my eyes - ice-grey like my father’s, a memory of him. But I so want them to be brown like Orson and Aya’s. Normal.

2nd place - Bigger than the Wind by Jim Kroepfl

Bigger Than The Wind  by Jim Kroepfl It’s been three days since the wind took my dad. Three days of huddling in the old school building trying to push the image out of my head, wondering if we can hang on until spring. I think about Mandi and hope she’s safe in her cellar, bravely waiting it out, praying for her family. I should have insisted she come here. I should have made her. I think about Mandi all the time, because when I do, I don’t hear the wind.

3rd place - The Front Line by Jim Kroepfl

Update 20/09/2015 - Jim Kroepfl's 3rd place story The Front Line has been placed in a competition by the Midway Journal in Minnesota. The journal wishes to publish the story, and for this reason we have temporarily removed it from our website. Congratulations, Jim!

Bread for the Bourgeoisie

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This week saw the launch of Simon Kettlewell's novel  Bread for the Bourgeoisie . An action-packed thriller set in the seamy world of human trafficking, it is already attracting excellent reviews. Download it on Kindle from  Amazon . @simonkettlewell