Competition Results
2018 International Prizes: Winners
2018 Novel Prize
Winner
The Thing about Max - Claire Owen
Runner Up
The Lyre and the Longships - Elizabeth Price
Shortlist
Havock - Dan Forrester
Scuzzling - CR Berry
Eleven Bodies - Rachel McHale
Irredeemable - Naomi Rebis
Live for Today - SA Solomon
Longlist
Absent from the Photograph - Tim Macedo-Hatch
Agency - Stephanie Hutton
Bloodline/Murmurs of the Earth - Nick Van Der Leek
Bronte's Mistress - Finola Austin
Elbow Street - Barbara Robinson
Faces Behind the Grille - Lorraine Buck
Mako Bay - Stephanie Ruth
Money Bear - Kerry Cox
Siege Portrait - Molly Gartland
Static - Peter Coles
The Commune - Lucy McLaren
The Last Card - Tip Finch
Irredeemable - Naomi Rebis
2018 Short Story Prize
Winner
When Miracles End - K. Crocker
Runner Up
The God of Small Colours - Katie Reed
Shortlist
Baggage Allowance - Paul Brockbank
The Nightingale - Declan Wilk
Pet Hospital - Michael Thompson
Ignis - Thomas Firth
Longlist
A Delicious Aroma Made Me Fall In Love - Eugenia Robusti
Alva - Erica Robb
Echoes and Awakenings - Gillian Robertson
Her Other Passion - James Woolf
Hew Own Woman - Lindsay Staniforth
Home Schooling - Shannon Savvas
Infinitesimal Footprints - Alden Etra
Numbers is Good - Brandt Scheidemantel
Setting Sail to the Edge of the World - Emma Reed
Soiled - Tony Leonard
Steer the Dark Skies - Niamh MacCabe
The Farewell Cabin - Alastair Hagger
The Fear - Michael Thompson
2018 Poetry Prize
Winner
The Alarming Decline of the Bobwhite - Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Runner Up
A Birth in Abaddon Vale - Andie Hughes
Shortlist
The Wait - Andreana Chan
A Bipolar Poem - Aaron Morris
Ephemerality - Hannah-Lee Osborn
Heartbreak - Amanda Adamson
The Waiting Room - Laura Purcell
White Stick - Joan Michelson
Longlist
The Pencaitland Hoopoe - Stella Hervey Birrell
Song of the Wind - Jane Burn
Of Bridges - Anamaria Julia Dragomir
Lotus Moon - Stacey George
Lapland Blues - Bruce Marsland
Homes - Sam Barcock
Dismissal of the Birds - Josiah O'Brien
Dancefloor - Tom Woodhead
Break of Day - Simon Pocock
The Death of Bare Feet - Angela Kubinec
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