2006 Short Story Competition - RESULTS
Judge: Author Sarah Duncan
Winners of Frome Festival Short Story Competition 2006
1st Prize – Alison Theaker, Devon – Eating Cake
2nd Prize – Sheila Corbishley, Newcastle on Tyne – Parker Hamilton Gets Fit
3rd Prize – Jo Cannon, Derbyshire – Jam
Highly Commended and top local prize winners:
Richard Walsh, Bath – Solid Earth
Rachel Ward, Bath – Numbers
Local Runners Up:
Jason Jackson, Bristol – Waiting for Nikki
Jude Higgins, Bristol – Retro
David Dell – Spike and Kidney
Anna Britten, Bath – Put the Radiator On, Get the Coffee Going
2006 Short Story Competition - STORIES
Parker Hamilton Gets Fit by Sheila Corbishley (2nd overall winner)
Numbers by Rachel Ward (Highly Commended and joint top local prize winner)
Solid Earth by Richard Walsh (Highly Commended and joint top local prize winner)
2005 Short Story Competition - RESULTS
First Prize ‘The Hat’ by Claire Pickard (Oxford)
Second Prize ‘For You Hannah’ by Alice Jolly (Brussels)
Third Prize ‘Passing Through’ by Yvonne Jackson (N. Yorkshire)
Highly Commended:
‘Drifters’ by Sally Gander (Frome)
‘Rabbits’ by John Ravenscroft (Boston, Lincs.)
Local Winners:
‘Drifters’ by Sally Gander (Frome)
‘Shards’ by Ann Newbegin (Bratton, Wilts)
‘Learning the Ropes’ by Rachel Bentham (Bristol)
Featured Winning Enteries from 2005
‘Rabbits’ by John Ravenscroft
‘Drifters’ by Sally Gander (Frome)
2005 PROGRAMME
Frome Festival 2005 promises yet another collection of vibrant and eclectic events; local papers have been full of the news that rock legend, Van Morrison, is headlining at Marston House this year.
Please see the Programme Section for more details.
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2004
Continuing Success for the first Frome Festival Short Story Competition
Woman's Weekly magazine are buying three of the stories that were entered into the 2004 Frome Festival Short Story Competition. The stories chosen for publication are Red Roses and a Blue Lady by Margaret Moundson, The Trader by Richard Weevil, and The Kitchen Front by Stella Goorney - who was one of our local winners.
2004 Short Story Competition - RESULTS
Thanks to everyone who helped make the First Frome Festival Short Story Competition a huge success. We are grateful to all those who helped publicise the competition and the people who worked hard behind the scenes.
The competition attracted 470 entries from all over the world. We had entries from as far away as Australia, Italy, France, Ireland, The Channel Islands, North of Scotland, as well as many from local writers. The standard was extremely high and lots of stories that were deserving of recognition were outshone by the winners.
The first prize (£300) went to Mangleface by Tyler Keevil a 26 year old Canadian writer and film maker who lives in Wales.
Second Prize (£50) One Day In The Life of An Ant by Sally Zigmund of Harrogate, Yorks.
Third Prize (£25) San Serif Man by Paul Wysocki of Oxford.
Highly commended runners up:Ella's Coffee by Tony Pritchard of Doncaster.
Howard's Women by Debbie Birse of Ealing.
Louise's Room by Paul Cuddihy of Glasgow.
Local winners were: Alexandra Wilson of Bath for her story Knowing You.
Stella Goorney of Bath for her story The Kitchen Fronta.
Rachelle Claret of Frome for her story Home Sweet Home.
All local winners recieved cheques for £25 presented by author Helen Dunmore during the Frome Fesival.
Local runner up was Morag Hadley of Keynsham for her story The Red Silk Sari..
The top six stories were forwarded to literary agent, Jane Judd A total of 18 entries have been passed on to the editor of Woman's Weekly for thier consideration.
The over all winner Tyler Keevil has accepted an invitation to read out his prizewinning story Mangleface at the Prose Cafe in the Garden Cafe in Stony Street, Frome on the evening of Monday 4th October when he will be presented with his cheque by the organisers of the competition, Alison Clink and Crysse Morrison.
2004 Reviews
Reviews of 2003 events
2003 Programme
2002 Programme
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