2018 International Literary Prize Results
WINNERS
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2019 International
Writing Competition Results
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The winners were announced on December's Billboard TV episode on 15th December 2019. You can watch it here.
All shortlisted stories and poetry will be published in the annual Hammond House anthologies due for release in early 2020. You can pre-order the anthologies here.
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Prizes will be awarded at our Annual Literary Festival on Wednesday 5th February 2020 at the University Centre Grimsby.
Everyone who entered the competitions is invited, together with friends and family. Find out more here.
Feedback will commence in January 2020 and should be completed by March 2020.
Short Story
Winners:
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1st Place: Tenacity Penguin | Matt Wixey
2nd Place: The Levensons | Tara Roeder
3rd Place: Locked In | Peter Hankins
Shortlisted Entries:
Cartolandia | Enzo Kohara Franca, UK
No Answer | Eamon O'Leary
Like Paradise | Oliver Bussell
The Milky Way | Chrissie Maroulli
The New Sieve | Colin Kerr
More Ways To Leave Your Lover | Don Rhodes
Rifle | Joshua Bruyning
Freeing Yasmin | Wendy Riley
Running Up That Hill | Jonathan Page
The Moving People | Guy Baillie-Grohman
Sarah | Christopher Owen
The Easy Now | Blythe Eveleigh-Evans
Rootless | Hanne Larsson
A Woman Who Knows | Kate Carne
All That Cannot Be Helped | Joe Eurell
Blessed Trinity | Gordon Wilson
Bloodletting | Kyle Waters
High Radon Gas Expectancy | Sarit Elkon
How To Become Crimson | Richard Salsbury
Leaving | Clara Harland
Mirror, Mirror | Lucy Grace
No Two Ways | Erik Löfroth
Notice of Eviction | Kevin Davis
Patchwork | Clementine Collett
Six Letters, Two Months, One Year | Verity Capstick
Snow and Feathers | Michelle Jager
Stale Peaches | David O'Dwyer
Staying to Leave | Mags Brown
The Cruellest Leash | T. H. Kunze
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Judge's Choice:​
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Olivia's Plan | Richard Burtle
My Name Was Joy | Alan Kennedy
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Student Competition Winners:​
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The Accident | C.S Lawrence
Dark Waters | L.E Beacock
Gladstone's Sorrow | Laura Ann Kenny
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Poetry
Winners:
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1st Place: Leaving Home | William Hatchett
2nd Place: So we will leave before they come with guns | Sam Szanto
3rd Place: Should I Go or Should I Stay | David McVey
Shortlisted Entries:
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Farewell to a nightingale | Ruth Flanagan
I'm Only Joking | Deborah Sheppard
Tadeusz | Philip Burton
Leaving | Frances Malaney
Opening the Box | Tim Taylor
Dark Hearted | Keira Brite
Goodbye, my sunshine country | Ramona Pata
Easy Come Easy Go | Graham Pratt
Distance | Alison McNulty
The Wrong Station | Mary Williams
Liberation | Kate Lindsay
Leaving you | Lizzie Smith
Journey | Selma Carvalho
Goodbyes to my young soul | Mette Honoré
Petulance | Steven Willett
The Last Visit | Donald McCrory
Cheating Death | Nels Rodwell
In The Dark Backward | Alison McNulty
Bound | Stacey George
The Pier | Philipa Coughlan
In The Details | Sharon Dormer
Dreams of Leaving | Donna Williams
Image of a Young Girl in the Throes | Peter Clarke
Moving Out | Dawn Vincent
Shadows | Anthony Khoo
Judge's Choice:
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Turning Left | Valerie Wynne
Night Crossing | Val Ormrod