2025 Shortlists and Winners

11 and Under Poem

First place"White" by Emma Rose
  
Shortlist"Counting" by Lizzie Cook
"Nature" by Belle1212
"The death motif " by Emma Rose
"The Willow Tree" by Abel Whitman
"Under the Ocean" by Maisie King

11 and Under Short Story

First place"Echoes of Yesterday" by Emma Rose
  
Shortlist"Beneath the Thorns " by Emma Rose
"Can’t man " by Lucian Gamwell
"The Act of Rebellion" by Rafe Simms
"The Mystical Magical Journey" by Belle1212
"What lurks behind the walls!?" by Emily-Jayne

12-18 Poem

First place"I Am the Snowflake" by Izzy
  
Shortlist"more" by Petra Rihan
"Morning Calls Her Homes" by Izzy
"No Longer" by Alexander Shaw-Young
"The Knife" by Tegan Southway

12-18 Short Story

First place"The Sun and the Stars" by Alexander Shaw-Young
  
Shortlist"Dead Frequency" by Akil
"Every Night On" by Petra Rihan
"Just a Little Longer" by Alexander Shaw-Young
"The Glow of Dakryn" by Betsy Fielding
"The Mind of Megan Miller" by Tegan Southway
"The War with No Tomorrow" by Luca David Toader

Adult Poem

First place"Boat House, Laugharne" by Macaque
  
Shortlist"Looking at Whistlejacket" by susanh
"Marie Antoinette wishes" by Jane Allsopp
"One Day I shall be Removed" by Andrew Robert Welch
"Techno on the Highstreet" by András Dávid Fasimon
"The Unwedding" by RiverMouth
"This is not a Love Song" by Andrew Robert Welch

Adult Short Story

First place"Do You Think We Continue?" by Anne Meale
  
Shortlist"Flutters" by Simon John Parkin
"Kidnapped" by Gerry Webber
"Our Son's Hair" by Michael E. Diaz
"The Archive for Fair Folk Studies’ Anthology of Twenty-First Century Research into Fairies in the UK An Account of Somerset Pixies" by Francesca Astraea
"The last train" by Andrew Wherrett
"The Plan" by Daniel Packer
"These Foolish Things" by Janet Jones