Competition Winners 2024

Competition Winners 2024

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

1st Prize - Desire Lines by Marc Joan

2nd Prize - The Sleeve by Julie Evans

3rd Prize - Guardian Angel by Jaime Gill

Devon Prize - Trevithick's Miniature Menagerie by Rebecca Shapland

(Highly Commended: Battle Cry by Marc Joan)

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, thank you to everyone who entered:

Short List:

And Only I Remain - Michael Pearson

Battle Cry - Marc Joan

Desire Lines - Marc Joan

Guardian Angel - Jaime Gill

Hard Cheese - Keith McGibbon

How Langhead Baptist Church Youth Fellowship Won The Holy Spirit All-Scotland Seven-a-Side Trophy - David McVey

Rosemary + Cindi - Elaine Gormley 

The Portrait - Alex Clissold-Jones

The Sleeve - Julie Evans

Trevithick's Miniature Menagerie - Rebecca Shapland

White Roses and Gypsophila - Wendy Hood

Long List:

And Only I Remain - Michael Pearson

Battle Cry - Marc Joan

Cuckoo - Philip Gibson

Desire Lines - Marc Joan

Don't Look Back - Keren Heenan

Guardian Angel - Jaime Gill

Half of the Sky - Anil Classen

Hand It Over - Eamonn McKeon

Hard Cheese - Keith McGibbon

How Langhead Baptist Church Youth Fellowship Won The Holy Spirit All-Scotland Seven-a-Side Trophy - David McVey

Magpie - Matt Thomas 

Mr Motala - Jon Barton

Nincompoop - Silvia Rucchin

Rosemary + Cindi - Elaine Gormley

Snapshots of a Broken Mind - Paul Chiswick

The Conductor - Anwen John

The Okinawa Gambit - C J Spear

The Portrait - Alex Clissold-Jones

The Runner - Natalie Smith

The Sleeve - Julie Evans

The Woman on His Bench - Sam Szanto

Trevithick's Miniature Menagerie - Rebecca Shapland

White Roses and Gypsophila - Wendy Hood