2017 COMPETITIONS
ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED
Results by 1st December
Awards Ceremony 13th December
GOOD LUCK
to everyone who entered
2017 COMPETITIONS
ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED
Results by 1st December
Awards Ceremony 13th December
GOOD LUCK
to everyone who entered
The winners were announced on Billboard TV on 20th December 2020. You can watch the episode here.
All shortlisted stories and poetry will be published in the annual Hammond House anthologies due for release in early 2021. Pre-orders coming soon.
Prizes will be awarded at our Annual Literary Festival at the University Centre Grimsby. Date TBC.
Feedback will commence in January 2021 and should be completed by the end of March 2021.
Short Story
Winners:
1st Place: Black Madonna
2nd Place: Apple Skins
3rd Place: Snakes In The Grass
Kate Carne, United Kingdom
Charlotte McCormac, United Kingdom
Natalie Hamill, Australia
Highly Commended:
Not-John
The Survival of the Species
Vernon Montgomery Is Not Dead
All That Glitters
Below Us The Dark
Jon Geoffrey, United Kingdom
Mary Took, United Kingdom
Aidan Furey, United Kingdom
Marcus Jones, United Kingdom
David Challenger, Hong Kong
Judges Choice:
The Little Girl From Swatow
The God Complex
Finding Lunar Harper
Stronger Together
Connie Quah, Australia
Richard Hooton, United Kingdom
Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, United Kingdom
Richard Burtle, United Kingdom
Editors Choice:
My Terror
The Angel's Wing
The Oddity That Is Them
Circles
Atieh Asadollahi, Iran
Ingvar Hellsing Lundqvist, Sweden
Christian Andrei Laplap, Philippines
Bryan Wade, Malaysia
Shortlisted Entries:
Sometimes
Red Bonnet
Close Shave
The Message
Blue Light
Amy's Treasure
The Day It Snowed Forever
Under Your Skin
The River and the Fallen
Loss Of A Baby
The Bow's Release
The Incalculable Value of Dog
Walkers At A Time Like This
The Bat Man of Hat Salat
The Orb
Are You Busy, Mr Laghari?
The Locked Door
Cycle
On the Lips of Fish
Boy-San
The Blue Zone
Plaster Saints
The Gift
Banwire
Gordon Adams, United Kingdom
Gordon Aindow, United Kingdom
Veronique Bequin, Canada
Luke Carter, Spain
Colleen Christi Willett, United States
David Evardson, United Kingdom
Howard Halsall, United Kingdom
Natalie Hamill, Australia
Rob Hartzell, United States
Bridget Hertaeg, Australia
Sharmela Kaluzny, Switzerland
Richard Layton, United Kingdom
Conor Montague, United Kingdom
Abi Ramanan, United States
Maria Roe, United Kingdom
I M Merckel, United States
Luke Tredget, United Kingdom
Alison Turnbull, Australia
Francine van den Berg, United Kingdom
Francine van den Berg, United Kingdom
Nicky von Fraunhofer, United Kingdom
Maggie Wilkins, Australia
Hayley Young, Australia
Student Winners
Luxuria
Seasons
Aidan McIlfatrick
Charlie Y
Poetry
Winners:
Shortlisted Entries:
1st Place: Walkabout
2nd Place: Remembrance Day
3rd Place: Dirt
Jean Cooper Moran, United Kingdom
Tim Taylor, United Kingdom
Mason Nunemaker, United States
Highly Commended:
Labelled
West Shore
The Soldier's Sandals
Noeleen Smullen, Ireland
Tim Taylor, United Kingdom
Francesco Capussela, United States
Judges Choice:
Two Bites
On The Wings of an Albatross
Donald McCrory, Spain
Ruth Flanagan, United Kingdom
Editors Choice:
The Inheritance
Come back to me
La Moselle
Donald Adamson, Finland
Keira Brite, Netherlands
Karina Fiorini, Luxembourg
Little Water Bear
ABSALOM
As Found
A Call To Arms
Climatic
Bring My Daddy Home
For the anti racists who believed one black square was enough
Survival
Florescence
Perhaps we'll die
The Night Nurse
Island of the Living Death
The Picnic
Survival
Back to the Sea
More than alive
Choices
Survival, But
Jane Burn, United Kingdom
John Coughlan, United Kingdom
Eloise Curtis, United Kingdom
Ruth Flanagan, United Kingdom
Dick Heath, United Kingdom
Marcus Jones, United Kingdom
Tiffany King, United Kingdom
Meg Macleod, United Kingdom
Meredith Mars, United Kingdom
Bruce Marsland, United States
Fadekemi Olumide-Aluko, Nigeria
Val Ormrod, United Kingdom
John Plowright, United Kingdom
Abi G Richardson, United Kingdom
Anne Steward, United Kingdom
Dawn Vincent, United Kingdom
Valerie Wynne, United Kingdom
Kathy Zwick, United Kingdom
Screenplay
Winners:
1st Place: Fallen
2nd Place: The Bouquet
3rd Place: Suppressed
Bobby Calloway, Ireland
Richard Layton, United Kingdom
Alexandra Fitzerman, United Kingdom
Shortlisted Entries:
The Book of Jack
Night Fishing
Breakfast
Miss Variola
The Freezer
Need A Light?
Surviving a Conservatoire
Wyatt Robison, United States
Hank Isaac, United States
Chris Straughton, United Kingdom
Richard Layton, United Kingdom
Martin Keady, United Kingdom
Samuel Wood, United Kingdom
Ieva Lakute, United Kingdom