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The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition for 2019: the winner

30 October 2019 By Editor

The HWA/Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition for 2019: the winner

The Historical Writers’ Association is delighted to announce the results of the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition for 2019.

Winner:

Kate Jewell: The Daisy Fisher

Highly commended:

Cathy De’Freitas: The Queen’s Jewel

Joanna Dodd: Cissy Mullins

Shortlisted:

Liz Kershaw: Finding a Way Home

Julie Evans: Lancashire Census of 1881

Monique Hayes: Mileage

Longlisted:

Emily Bullock: A Glimmer of Melting Ice

Rachel Bower: Abide with Me

Joanne Stephens: Any Wickedness

Jasmina Svenne: Bittersweet Homecoming

John Clarke: By the Calling of the Whaups

Maire Malone: Hungry Roads

Katherine Mary Mezzacappa: Nightmare in Clapham

HM Hulme: On Rhosili Down

Christine Williams: Sembawang Gate

Patricia Bracewell: Soldier

Jean Cooper Moran: The Flood

Eve Johnson: The Marriage of Illusion and Commerce

Alice Fowler: The Truth Has Arms and Legs

Ali Bacon: Within these Walls

Imogen Robertson, HWA chair, praised “the range and ambition of the stories and the high standard of the writing”.

Congratulations to all listed and especially to our winner, Kate Jewell.

Kate’s story, The Daisy Fisher, is published here in Historia and in the Dorothy Dunnett Society‘s magazine, Whispering Gallery.

Read last year’s winning short story, the chillingly atmospheric Nineteen Above Discovery by Jennifer Falkner.

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