Welcome to our online store!

Cart:

0 item(s) - £0.00
You have no items in your shopping cart.

0

Competition Anthologies and Winners Circle

FLASH FICTION COMPETITION 2023

 

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for the winners and more details about the competition.

 

Joint Winners

Alan R Paine with It’s a Frog Eat Frog World

Angela Caulder with Thug

 

Joint Runners-Up

Mark P Henderson with Passing Ships

Ian Coldicott with The Camera Never Lies

 

Joint Third place

Walt Pilcher with Wormhole

Annie Percik with Anyone’s Rift

 

Joint Fourth place

Sue Knight with Talky Tin

John Kot with A Gift from the Sky

 

Joint Fifth place

Claire Wilson with Greener Pastures

Kester Robert Park with The Last Word

 

 

Charities: Special Effect and Stack Up

 

 

DREAD COLD SHORT HORROR COMPETITION 2019

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for the longlist, the shortlist and more details about the competition.

The Dread Cold anthology is due for publication in 2020.

 

The cash prize winners

1st prize: The Loop by Mark Henderson

2nd prize: A Study in White by Caroline Hardwick

 

Other prize winners

3rd prize: Collapse by Jeremy Childerstone

4th prize: Open Prison by Alan Paine

5th prize: A Stopover in Burden by Adena Graham

6th prize: The Crowd at the Gate by Tansy Hawksley

7th prize: A Tilt Towards Darkness by Jacci Gooding

8th prize: Escaping the Cold by David Stewart

9th prize: The Utopia Mine by Kester Park

10th prize: Moon and I by Kester Park

 

Professional contribution from

Matt Adcock

 

Charities: Anti-Slavery International, and Embrace the Middle East

 

 

FIRE AND ICE SCI-FAN COMPETITION 2018

 

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for the longlist, the shortlist and more details about the competition.

 

The cash prize winners

1st place: Forges by Dan Staniforth

2nd place: All the Time in the World by JX Plant

3rd place: A Worm in the Toffee Apple by RL Kerrigan

 

Highly commended

The Button by Tim Gayda

Light of their Lives by Boris Glikman

Speak before you Think by Katherine Duncan

 

Professional contributions from

Danuta Reah

Stuart Aken

 

Charity: Fibromyalgia Action UK

 

FANTASTIC FEMALE FABLES COMPETITION 2017

The winners' anthology for this competition won the 2019 CWA Short Story Dagger.

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for the longlist, the shortlist and more details about the competition.

 

The cash prize winners

1st place: Car Park Girl by Josephine Greenland

2nd place: The Beholder by Lauren Everdell

3rd place: A Head for Heights by Shirley Golden

 

Highly commended

Daughters of the Frost World by Ulla Susimetsa

Feta and Watermelon by Sozou-Kyrkou Konstantina

How to Wake a Dragon by Brittany Muscarella

Tatarabuela by Kester Robert Park

 

Professional contributions from

Danuta Reah - author of many novels and short stories including the prize winning No Flies on Frank

Mary Brown - author of the critically acclaimed I Used To Be

 

Charity: Global Fund for Women

 

The cover of 'Dreaming of Steam'

FANTASTIC YORKSHIRE WOLDS RAILWAY COMPETITION 2016

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for the editors’ tips and tricks, plus details of the long and shortlist.

 

The cash prize winners

1st place: Return to Wetwang by Peter Briddon

Runner up: The Diary of Daniel Duck by Elaine Hemingway

Runner up: The Last Train by Richard Simmons

 

Julia Bradbury prize for capturing the spirit of the Wolds

Trains of Thought by Alan Paine

 

Highly commended

A Solicitous Wife by Madeleine McDonald

Dodging to a Halt by Janet Batty

 

Judge: Lord Faulkner of Worcester, President of the Heritage Railway Association

 

 

Professional contributions from

Lucy Bilton

Richard Dixon

Penny Grubb

Drew Wagar

 

Charity: The Yorkshire Wolds Railway

 

The cover of the '666' anthology.

HORROR FANTABBLE COMPETITION 2016

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for the judges' comments, editors' grumbles and details of the long and the shortlist.

 

The cash prize winners

1st place: What’s That Sniffing at my Window in the Middle of the Night by Rose Thurlbeck

2nd place: Loft Conversion by Denise Hayes

3rd place: The Perfect Family by Kester Park

 

Highly commended

Headhunted by John Hoggard

The Number Of The Beast by Celia Coyne

 

Judge: The Horror team from the FBP editorial dungeons

 

 

Professional contributions from

Linda Acaster

Stuart Aken

Regina Puckett

John Scotcher

 

Charity: EDS-UK

 

 

 

Synthesis

PURE SCIENCE FICTION COMPETITION 2015

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for the history of what was different about this competition and where a small boy and Ray Bradbury came into it. 

 

The cash prize winners


1st prize: Dying Star by Marko Susimetsä

2nd prize: Steampunk Striker by Pierre Le Gue

3rd prize: If We Start Killing by Ulla Susimetsä

 

Judge: The Sci-Fi team from FBP

 

Professional contributions from

Drew Wagar

Stuart Aken

Boris Glikman

plus a Foreword by Robert Llewellyn (one of our CEO's comedy heroes)

 

Charity: Freedom from Torture

 

 

Fusion

SHORT SCIENCE FICTION COMPETITION 2012

 Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for an interesting footnote to the history of this anthology.

 

The cash prize winners


1st prize: Tam and the Giantess by Katy Huth Jones

2nd prize: Bar Code by Denise Hayes

3rd prize: Infinite Maze by Leonie Ewing

 

Judge: Penny Grubb

 

Professional contributions from

Danuta Reah

Stuart Aken

 

Charity: WCRF (World Cancer Research Fund).

 

 

 

  

Ours

MOTHERLAND POETRY COMPETITION 2013

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for more information on the authors and the very special story behind one of the contributions.

 

The cash prize winners


1st prize: India by Poorvaja Rajagopalan

2nd prize: Land of the Persimmon by Janet Dean

3rd prize: Come to Rest by Farzana Marie

 

Judge: Maureen Duffy

 

Professional contributions from

Maureen Duffy

Jana Russ

Robert Jaggs-Fowler

 

Charity: the WorldWide Orphans Foundation

 

   

aMUSEing Tales

SHORT CHILDREN'S FICTION COMPETITION 2013

Check out the COMPETITION PAGE for information on the authors plus the unexpected arrival of a doodle pad and a host of artists. 

 

The cash prize winners


1st prize: My Friend Hatuk by Nuzhat Anwar

2nd prize: Michaela of the Sea by Sara Barnard

3rd prize: The Mermaid Beauty Contest by Patricia Crumpler

4th prize: Natasha's Magic Clock by John D Slater

 

Judge: Heather Maisner

 

Professional contributions from

Heather Maisner

Boris Glikman

 

Charity: the WorldWide Orphans Foundation