Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the
November 2012 Global Short Story Competition and writers from the United States
have taken the honours.
The £100 first prize goes to a writer from Walla Walla,
Wa. Fiona says of The Hobo by Martin McCaw: “Atmospheric and haunting, this
story has a cinematic quality. the writer simply states what is happening, with
a remarkable economy of language which only makes the story richer. It is a
little like a movie shot in sepia - the subtleties are intriguing and the
unanswered questions make it linger on long after the first read. Well done.”
The £25 highly commended prize goes to Daniel Fortner
of Thomasville, Georgia, for Shell for Shell, of which Fiona says: “This is a
great story, epitomising the wonderful contradictions between childhood and
maturity. Convincing and unsentimental, it satisfied on many levels. I was on
the turtles’ side as well!”
The writers on the shortlist
(from five countries) were:
Janet Duignan, Rouffignac St Cernin, France
Irina Haugane, Oslo, Norway
Ian Smith, Glasgow Scotland
Georgia Minoa Nicolaou,
Larnaca, Cyprus
Robin Lewis, York, England
E Palmer, Oxford, England
Stories can be entered into the
competition at www.globalshortstories.net
Winning stories can be found at the same address or www.globalwriters.net
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