is happy to announce the results of our
Flash Fiction Competition
2024/25
As usual, the quality of entries was impressive.Choosing the winner was no easy task but here, after much deliberation, are the choices of our Judge,
Angela King
Angela is a writer and tutor. She holds a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. Her story’ Stargazer’ won the 2023 NZ Society of Authors’ Graeme Lay Short Story Competition and she is currently working on another novel. Here is her choice:
Winning Stories
1st place: “Living Space” – by Elizabeth Taylor
2nd Place: “Irving Hammerman” – by Julie Weary
3rd place: “Another Bottle of the Eighty-One” – by Kevin Cheeseman
Other Short Listed Stories
“No Place Like Home” by Jaime Gill
“Strange Birds over B74 ” by Julie Murray
“A Lover’s Guide to the Beach and Beacon Trail” by KahliScott
Long Listed Authors
| The Conquest of Dreaming | Anders Ross |
| Moonseed | Andy Stewart |
| Workmate | Chris Cottom |
| Colours | Donna Macauley |
| Hallucinations | Elizabeth Taylor |
| Living Space | Elizabeth Taylor |
| Sarah, Sarah Dawson | Emily Kirkpatrick |
| Take the Long Way Home | Ilan Adler |
| Striking the Balance | Jacqueline Winn |
| No Place Like Home | Jaime Gill |
| Trouble Town | Jim Gleeson |
| Red Cardigans Everywhere | Jo Cora |
| Wheels on the Bus | Jo Bryant |
| Silent Hidden Places | Julie Murray |
| Strange Birds over B74 | Julie Murray |
| Irving Hammerman | Julie Weary |
| Family Room | Julie Weary |
|
A Lover’s Guide to the Beach and Beacon Trail |
Kahli Scott |
| Another Bottle of the Eighty-One | Kevin Cheeseman |
| On Millbridge Ward | Lisette Abrahams |
| Prudence Gaffney Says | Michael Freundt |
| Shoemanship | Mike Woodhouse |
| Unwelcome – Suella’s Refrain | Nargis Lil |
| Cell Mates | Pamela Morrison |
| Hoc est enim | Pamela Scobie |
| The Cry | Penny-Anne Beaudoin |
| Birthday Wish | Rosa Li |
| The First Gunfight | Shiela Gove |
| I Killed Dylan Thomas | Zoe Robinson |