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2012 New Mardi Gras Short Story Competition

A collection of all the winners and highly commended entries - this competition was part of the 2012 New Mardi Gras festival. 750 words. Theme: Heroes

Judges comments ... In judging we looked for originality, great writing, interesting structure, and a story that went somewhere...

Gail Hewison, Geoff Knight and Robert Tait

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pdf file >1MB, 23 A4 pages, mixed g&l content, released Feb 2012

Produced by GAY-EBOOKS for New Mardi Gras Festival

Contents:

1st prize
James May Aunt Ruby
Sometimes I saw her shoot across ...

2nd prize
Christian Baines The Faggot Prince of Death Metal
I rush for the exit as Dev...

3rd prize
Karla Hansford Arcady
The lights are dim, the hall thick with sounds...

Under 26 prize
Isabel Roper Grace
People talked. They always talked...

Highly commendeds:
Matthew Huxtable  Uncle Anthy
'Mum had a brother a few years older ...

Matthew Huxtable The Interview
'So,' the first says, biting the lid of her pen...

Debra Findlay Hope
Legs and lipstick. She is my every desire...

Highly commended U26

Michael-Kembi Yates Between two boxes
He peers at me from the end...

Alex Dunkin Inside out
It begins with a line, a single stroke of black...

See other Mardi Gras competitions: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011