Author: Tim Prater
Video: Address by Jake Blandford
Jake Blandford reading from his 2018 HG Wells Short Story Competition Grand Prize Shortlisted entry “Address”.
Video: A is for Above, B is for Below by Hannah Fagan
Hannah Fagan reading from her 2018 HG Wells Short Story Competition Junior Prize Shortlisted entry “A is for Above, B is for Below”.
The Grand Prize 2018 Winner: Wendy Riley – Yue’s Story
WENDY RILEY Yue’s Story It’s not every day you find a bear who cries. For my father, who owned the bear farm, it was an odd and embarrassing sight. For a week he covered the bear’s cage with rice sacks to stop curious neighbours peeking in and taking photos. This only made the bear cry…
The Margaret and Reg Turnill Prize 2018 Winner: Abaan Zaidi – In the Light of the Crescent Moon
Abaan Zaidi In the Light of the Crescent Moon The morning will start as usual for Firoz Uncle. He will do his morning salt gargle, his fifty sit-ups and fifty press-ups, his fifty stretches to touch his brown and wrinkled toes, as he has done for the last forty years. He will put on his…
2018 HG Wells Short Story Competition Winners
At the annual Awards Ceremony on the afternoon of Sunday 25h November at The Grand on The Leas, Folkestone, the organisers of the HG Wells Short Story Competition were delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 competition. The Winner of the Junior £1,000 Turnill Prize is Abaan Zaidi for “In the Light of the…
2018 Awards Ceremony Programme
Programme for the Awards Ceremony – Sunday 25th November 2018 at The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone Master of Ceremonies: Charles Bain Smith (Chair of Judges) 12.00 Arrival and welcome to Awards Ceremony in the Drawing Room Welcome drink / tea or coffee 1230 Opening remarks by Charles Bain Smith Talk by Norah Perkins of Curtis…
2018 HG Wells Short Story Competition Shortlists
We are delighted to announce our two shortlists for the prestigious H G Wells Short Story Competition 2018. We have received a high level of entries this year of excellent quality from talented writers in the UK, Ireland, USA, Australia, Israel, Zimbabwe, India, Austria, South Africa and more! The judges have selected the following stories…
Norah Perkins to Present 2018 HG Wells Awards
We’re delighted to announce that Norah Perkins will be our special guest to present prizes and short-list certificates at our annual awards ceremony on the 25th November at the Grand Hotel in Folkestone. Norah is an agent at Curtis Brown and represents clients across modern classics, British crime and true-life adventures, including a small but brilliant list…
Folkestone School Writer Workshop
Once again, we are very happy to support the local short story writing workshop run in June by Matt Dickens, head of English at the Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone. This workshop is for local secondary school aged short story writers. Last year’s event, attended by young writers from local schools, was a successful mixture of…
Canterbury H G Wells Short Story Competition Writing Workshop 2018
On Saturday 16th June, the H G Wells Short Story Competition have organised a writing workshop in Canterbury for aspiring writers of all ages led by Canterbury based author and lecturer Danny Rhodes. Danny Rhodes grew up in Grantham, Lincolnshire before moving to Kent in 1994 to attend University in Canterbury. He had a number of short…
