2012 BSSP Longlist Announced

Written by joe melia Tuesday, 22 May 2012 12:51

We’re really pleased to announce the 40 stories that have been longlisted for the 2012 Bristol Short Story Prize. We received a total of 2,304 entries and the scope, ambition and strength of the writing of this year’s submissions has been truly breathtaking. It has been a wonderful experience reading so many compelling, inventive and original short stories and we’d like to say a huge thank you to all the writers who entered.

We wish all those on the longlist the best of luck for the rest of the competition.

The stories are listed A-Z by author.

2012 Bristol Short Story Prize longlist:

Eugenia Will Come Back To You Someday – Kaj Anderson-Bauer (USA)

Naked As Eve – John Arnold (Australia)

Running to Nuthin’ – Lewis Bardsley (England)

Unearthed – Catherine Bokkers (The Netherlands)

The Swimmer – Lizzie Boyle (England)

Between Sea and Shore – Darci Bysouth (Scotland)

Dreams of Flying – Alexandra Carey (England)

Lobster – Alys Conran ( Wales)

Inked – Neil Durrant (Australia)

The Angel of the Warmth – Rachel J Fenton (New Zealand)

Time – Clare Fisher (England)

Battleground – Lisa Frank (Ireland)

Keith Morris is a Royal Plum – Martin Cathcart Froden (Scotland)

Something Somewhere Went Wrong – Sarah Gilmartin (Ireland)

People Like Her – Kerry Hood (England)

Apple Shot – Tracey Iceton (England)

Nice Blokes – Brian Jennings (England)

Meat – Avril Joy (England)

Dark Matter – Magda Knight (England)

Last Days of the Unicorn  - Danielle McLaughlin (Ireland)

On The Day Weldon Kees Disappeared – Alan Mumford (England)

Flashpoint – Susan Murray (England)

Heaven on the Horizon – Noel O’Regan (Ireland)

Ghost in the Machine – Christopher Parvin ( England)

Sharks, Choices – Matt Plass (England)

Horses – Thomas Pyner (England)

Yoki and the Toy Surprise – Angela Readman (England)

Going Grapefruit – Ian Richards (England)

Beekiller – Ethel Rohan (USA)

Forty-Five RPM in Chicago – Derek Routledge (Wales)

Senile – Safia Shah (England)

The Bird – Samantha Short (England)

The Attack at Delium – William Telford (England)

Mackerel for Tea – Rhoda Thompson (England)

Jelly Feel Real – Ellie Walsh (England)

After the Flood – Melanie Whipman ( England)

I Once Knew Salman Rushdie - Hilary Wilce (England)

The Life of Ethan – Emily Williamson (England)

Flowers on the Flagstone – Mairi Wilson (Scotland)

Symmetry – Samuel Wright  (England)

Highly Commended:

Crik Crak – E.L. Appleby ( England)

The Homecoming – Cait Atherton (Thailand)

And the Sea Gave Up Its Dead - Faith Barnes (Wales)

The Swanrite – Phillip Belcher

Last Wednesday – Cristina Burduja (England)

Stillness Comes – Michael John Burrows  (Canada)

Transition – Holly Corfield Carr (England)

Beautiful Horizon – Sharda Dean (England)

White – Mark Dixon (England)

Living – Samuel Dodson (England)

For Gracie – Ruth Driscoll (England)

Glimmer – Kat Ellis (Wales)

Vitiligo – Jo Else (England)

A Death in the Family – Kathleen English (England)

The Beginning – Louise Gethin  (England)

Where Steamers Wait... – T.D. Griggs (England)

Soap Opera in a Red Camaro – Norma Harrs (Canada)

A Young Country – Joanna Herrmann (England)

Angel Eggs – Nydia Hetherington ( England)

The Genitals and the Soul – David B Huebert (Canada)

Confessions of a Pigeon Feeder – Charlotte Humphries (England)

Puddings in the Park – Clair Humphries (England)

Lally – Tina Jackson  (England)

The Wish Improvement Mechanism – Amy Kellam (England)

Detective Noir – Ryan Anthony Licata (England)

Yellow River – Karen Lindsay

The Lady Bandit – Kelly Matsuura (Japan)

The Novel Factory – Luke Melia (England)

Geminids – Will Miles (England)

Sweetness – Lorraine Nevin (South Africa)

You Always Hurt – Michael Nicholson (England)

The Elephant Sun – Emyr Payne (Wales)

Frank Has Weeds – Mike Pym (England)

Greasbys – Olivia Rana (Northern Ireland)

Flight of Fancy – Mary Reynolds ( Ireland)

White Witch – Don Roy (Canada)

Afternoon Lullaby – Susha Chandra Ryner  ( England)

Craving – Erics Sail (England)

Moving In – Janet Swinney (England)

A Dance in the Bomb Shelter – Steven Tizzard