Category: Competitions

Anthology Published

Nov 19, 2025

Our anthology of entries to the Michael Round Prize is now available on Amazon! The paperback is priced at £8.99 and the Kindle version at £3.00 (outside the UK it may be a few days more before it appears). The cover design, by our own Jo Bodley, includes elements that refer to several of the stories. The main pomegranate motif is from the Palestinian embroidery tradition of tatreez, mentioned in the winning story.

Please do buy copies (they make great Christmas presents) and give us good reviews.

Read the Shortlist!

Nov 9, 2025

You can now read entries from the shortlist for the Michael Round Prize! This includes the entries which came first and second. The results were officially announced at our meeting on 10 November.

Winner: We only Had One Religion (Hashmi-Al-Haseeb Faisal)

We Only Had One ReligionDownload

Second Place: Sniggery Wood (Stuart Wilks-Heeg)

Sniggery WoodDownload

Missing (Celia Gatward)

MissingDownload

Why Don’t You Just Keep Going (Benjamin Graham)

Why Don’t You Just Keep GoingDownload

Dust to Dust (Katie Weatherford)

Dust to DustDownload

Austentatious Dames (Fay Dickinson) has been retained for possible publication elsewhere.

8 Sept Meeting

Sep 9, 2025

Peter gave a presentation on the benefits, disadvantages and risks of entering competitions (and he does actually recommend it). You can see the presentation, with commentary, below.