Rhys Davies Short Story Competition

2007 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition Winners

 

1st Prize Winner:

Penny Simpson from Cardiff for her story Eagle in the Maze

Equal Runners-up:

Deborah Kay Davies from Pontypool for her story Stones

T J Davies from Cardiff for his story Drive

Kate D’Lima from Swansea for her story White Rabbit

Bridget Keehan from Barry for her story Sorry for the Loss

Huw Lawrence from Aberystwyth for his stories We Have Been to the Moon and Hell Can’t Claim

Jo Mazelis from Swansea for her stories Mrs Dundridge and The Flower Maker

Michael Thomas from Caerphilly for his story Last Stop

Marjorie Wynn from Conwy for her story Sour Grass

 
Click here to read the judges adjudication

An anthology including all of  the winning stories entitled Eagle in the Maze was published by Cinnamon Press in May 2008 and launched by Academi and the Rhys Davies Trust at the Guardian Hay Festival on the Literature in Wales stand.

 
The Judges:

The Judges for the 2008 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition were:

Tessa Hadley has written two novels, Accidents in the Home (Jonathan Cape, 2001) and Everything Will Be All Right (Jonathan Cape, 2004), and a collection of stories, Sunstroke and Other Stories (Jonathan Cape, 2007). She has had short stories published in Granta, The New Yorker, and The Guardian. She lives in Cardiff.

Meic Stephens has worked as a journalist, Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council, visiting Professor at Brigham University, Utah and arts consultant. He has lectured at the University of Glamorgan and was Professor of Welsh Writing in English 2000–2003 (now Emeritus). Founder of Poetry Wales and editor until 1973. Obituarist for The Independent.

Filter Judge:

Catherine Fisher is a poet and children’s novelist. She has worked in teaching and archaeology, and is now a full-time writer. She won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writer’s Prize and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 1989 and a Tir na n-Og Prize in 1995. She has been short-listed for the Smarties Prize, WH Smith Prize and the Whitbread Prize.
 

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