19th August, 2021
Meet the 2020 competition laureates
Having featured the category winners Atlas Weyland Eden and Madeleine Friedlein, we’re thrilled to publish here the stories of all those who were runners-up or highly commended in our 2020 competition. You can read the eight stories in full by clicking the links below, and listen to some of them reading their stories aloud. You can also get a printed copy of all the winning stories in our hot-off-the-press anthology, which you can order for free by contacting us with your postal address.
Here is the roll of honour. Hail, laureates!
Highly commended, 11-15 age category:
Rayhana Bint-Mumin for The Fall of Saigon
Ide Crawford for What Fiore Saw
Isa Kleibergen for The Crimes of a Camera
Ted Whitaker for And When Did You Last See Your Father
Runner up, 11-15 age category:
Theodore Fulford for Daejeon Station
Runner up, 16-19 age category:
Jamie Lunnon for Adlestrop
Rachel McWhinnie for Deeds Not Words
Highly commended, 16-19 age category:
Holly Thorpe for To Dust We Shall Return
Congratulations to all our winners!