At the 2022 HG Wells Short Story Competition Award Ceremony on Zoom on Sunday 20th November, the winners were announced as:
- 2022 Margaret and Reg Turnill Prize Winner: Amelie Roscoe for Salting the Earth
- 2022 Senior Prize Winner: Stephen O’Reilly for Hibernicus Rising
The 2022 Anthology of Switch is available now on Amazon at:
- Elsewhere search on Amazon for “Switch Joyce”
We’re also delighted to announce the theme of the 2022 competition: Switch. Make of it what you will!
The Award Ceremony was broadcast on our Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/HGWellsShortStoryCompetition “live” and will be available to watch back until the end of 2022. The ceremony started with presentations by two speakers:
- Tony Quarrington on Sandgate as home to HG Wells [Video]
- Lord Boeteng on the Importance of Books [Video]
2022 Margaret and Reg Turnill Prize
- Ginny Martin reading from Binding Switch
- Katie Farrell reading from Discernment
- Winner: Amelie Roscoe reading from Salting the Earth
- Adriana Tihan reading from Switch
- Ryan Lee reading from The Animal Boy
2022 Senior Prize
- Jamie Littlewood reading from (The Tale Of) Mr Motivator [Video]
- Sasha Gill reading from And Then Come the Pixies [Unable to attend]
- David McVey reading from Ben Kingsley Time-warped My Tennis Ball [Reading Live]
- Winner: Stephen O’Reilly reading from Hibernicus Rising [Reading Live]
- Kim A. Bigelow reading from My Refrigerator Won’t Let Me [Reading Live]
- Susannah Rickards reading from Olive Branches [Video]
- Amanda D’Errico reading from The Rehzinin [Video]
- Adrian Paul reading from What Would the Jackmans Do [Reading Live]