Past Winners

How to Have an Existential Crisis by Jamie Simpher, the third prize-winning entry in the New Writers 1,000 Word Short Story Competition 2024.

‘States That Shaped Your Octopus Brain’ by Gail Anderson, the winning entry in the 2024 New Writers Flash Fiction Competition.

‘Instructions for an unswallowed life’ by Jane Dugdale, the second place entry in the 2024 New Writers Flash Fiction Competition.

‘Treasure’ by Twig Firth, the third prize-winning entry in the 2024 New Writers Flash Fiction Competition, picked by Stephanie Carty.

‘How to cheat death in a nightclub bathroom’ by Jordan Hamel, the winning poem in the 2023 New Writers Poetry Competition.

‘The Fork’ by Maxwell Minckler, the poem awarded second place in the 2023 New Writers Poetry Competition along with PDF version.

‘A Trans Guide to Pinning Luna Moths’ by Cecilia Mary Morris, the poem awarded third place in the 2023 New Writers Poetry Competition.

Elvis is alive and he lives in Belfast by Letty Butler, the winning entry in the 2022 New Writers Flash Fiction Competition.

‘Something Fishy’ by Diana Gittins, the runner-up entry in the 2022 New Writers Flash Fiction Competition.

‘To dust’ by Mike Kilgannon, the third place entry and prize winner in the 2022 New Writers Flash Fiction Competition.