I am thrilled to have been shortlisted in the Mslexia annual Women’s Short Story Competition. My story was one of 50 shortlisted out of over 2,000 entries.
The judge was the novelist, memorist and short story exponent Janice Galloway, who said she ‘bundled up all her entries and took them into her ‘writing shed’, where she immersed herself in tales about waitresses, pathologists, teachers, stalkers, chameleons, and cowgirls’!
I found it really interesting to learn that water was a predominant theme in the entries to this year’s competition.
Apparently there was a large number of stories focusing on swimming and drowning, the sea, and sea monsters and water metaphors in general.
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Sarah
I’m Sarah, an author living by the sea in Devon. My debut novel, THE SANATORIUM will be published by Transworld in the UK and by Pamela Dorman Books in the US in February 2021. I'll be sharing all of my news here about my book and lots more besides...