Category: short story competition
Video: Between the Cities by Zachary Godin
Reading on behalf of Zachary Godin from his 2018 HG Wells Short Story Competition Grand Prize Shortlisted entry “Between the Cities”.
Video: HG Wells Short Story Competition Prize Winners Announcement 2018
The announcement of the winners of the 2018 HG Wells Short Story Competition at the Awards Ceremony at The Grand, Folkestone on Sunday 25th November.
Video: The Family Tree by Diane Wisdom
Diane Wisdom reading from her 2018 HG Wells Short Story Competition Grand Prize Shortlisted entry “The Family Tree”.
Video: Yue’s Story by Wendy Riley
Wendy Riley reading from her 2018 HG Wells Short Story Competition Grand Prize winning “Yue’s Story”.
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…
