Short Story competition winners 2023

Competition Winners 2023 

We are delighted to announce the winners of this year's Exeter Writers Short Story Competition:

1st Prize - Dancing the Dead Leaf Charleston by Abigail Williams

2nd Prize - A Lease of Life by Kathleen Conlon

3rd Prize - The Curfew by Jane Miles

As the only Devon entry on the shortlist was our winner, the Devon Prize has been shared between the following longlistees;

Jenny Giel with My Sister and the Bird Boy and Jass Tabris with For all the caged & warm birds

Congratulations to all our winners. The stories will be published one by one over the coming week and watch out for interviews with our winners coming soon.

We can now also put names to everyone on our short and long lists:

Short List: 

Slightly Off-Mint - Rose Yates

Revenge is Sweet - Ian Cragg

A Lease of Life - Kathleen Conlon

Dancing the Dead Leaf Charleston - Abigail Williams

My Best Friend Chloe - 

The Curfew - Jane Miles

Lest We Forget - John Savage

Three Point Turn - Emily Howes

C_a_ Cof_ _ _ - Stephen Lorriman

Long List:

My Sister and the Bird Boy - Jenny Giel

The Other House - Jacqueline Molloy
Slightly Off-Mint - Rose Yates
The Eye Generation - Lisa Collingwood
Hedgerow Delights - Catherine Knoweldon
Revenge is Sweet - Ian Cragg
For all the caged & warm birds - Jass Tabriz
Dying Teddy Bears - Peter Hankins
A Lease of Life - Kathleen Conlon
Dancing the Dead Leaf Charleston - Abigail Williams
Ssenippah - Ian Murch
My Best Friend Chloe - Bethany Wren
The Curfew - Jane Miles
Lest We Forget - J S Savage
Three Point Turn - Emily Howes
C_a_ Cof_ _ _ - Stephen Rajbhandaraks
Farmhouse supper - Robert Campbell
The Visits - Clare Palmer