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
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
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
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
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).
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
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
