2023 HG Wells Short Story Competition Winners and Awards
0November 19, 2023 by Tim Prater
At the 2023 HG Wells Short Story Competition Award Ceremony on Zoom on Sunday 19th November, the winners were announced as:
- 2023 Margaret and Reg Turnill Prize Winner: Gloria Mesa for Rain Dance
- 2023 Senior Prize Winner: Keltie Zubko for The Last Teardown of Eleanor
The 2023 Anthology of “Motion” is available now on Amazon at:
- Buy “Motion” on Amazon (UK)
- Buy “Motion” on Amazon (US)
- Elsewhere search on Amazon for “Motion Joyce”
We’re also delighted to announce the theme of the 2024 competition: The Fool. 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 2023. The ceremony started with a presentation by Dr Paul March-Russell on Men Like Gods.
2022 Margaret and Reg Turnill Prize
- Radiyah Nouman reading from Away the Water Drains
- Yuen Tong Law reading from Cast Out of Heaven [reading live]
- Kantaphat Pinaree reading from Elegy for A Machine [reading live]
- Catherine Saunders reading from Figurehead
- Pritha Halder reading from Ladies’ Compartment [reading live]
- Thalia Peterson reading from Pareidolia
- Gloria Mesa reading from Rain Dance by Leyelle [reading live]
- Charlotte Moran reading from The Death of the Ticket Collector [reading live]
- Sarah-Kate Simons reading from The Matchmaker [reading live]
- Allison VanHuysen reading from The Resonance of the Zucchini [reading live]
- Tessa Shutter reading from When a car dies on a deserted road does it make a sound
2023 Senior Prize
- Kerry Ryan reading from A Parcel of Rogues [reading live]
- Steven Jackson reading from A Static Hero [reading live]
- Arthur Neong reading from A Walk in the Park [reading live]
- Jarick Weldon reading from Currents from Cabo Verde
- Katie Rizzo reading from Endless Horizon
- Mary Onions reading from Grounded [reading live]
- Mary Onions reading from Pilgrimage [reading live]
- Keltie Zubko reading from The Last Teardown of Eleanor
- Anna Linstrum reading from Untethered [Unable to read live]
- Ashia Mirza reading from Yahya’s Garden [reading live]
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