Bridges Short Story Results

As part of the Bridges Project funded by the Arts Council, Trinity ran a short-story competition around the project's theme 'bridges'. People were allowed to interpret the theme however they chose and the stories' texts and excerpts will be used to shape the dialogue and story of the project's final show 'Ithica' (details to be announced soon).

We were incredibly pleased with the turn-out - receiving a great deal more entries than we expected.

The closing event of the Bridges short story competition saw all of the authors who entered exchange opinions, tips and tricks, as each discussed their own unique take on the theme.

The judges (Bridges Project Coordinator Dr Edson Burton and award-winning authors Taniah Hershman & Mike Manson) had a difficult time picking through the vastly different styles of writing and individual takes on the theme. Finally able to reduce it to the top 3 stories the judges were still not satisfied, choosing to also commend three more stories that they felt deserved an honourable mention.

The competition results were as follows:

1. First place: Like a Bridge over troubled Waters - A Tale of Two Clichés (Mal Sainsbury)

2. Second place: Interconnectivity (David Chedgy)

3. Third place: Guerilla Knitting (Jude Higgins)

Commended:

• The Quiet DJ (Lynn Hunt)
• I Remember You Well... (Manu Emmanuel)
• An Almost Invisible Crack (Adriana Dorsett)

Runners Up:

• Some Scenes from a Bridge into Adulthood (Maureen Andrews)
• A Bridge Too Far (Anna Rosenburg)
• Bristol and Beyond (Jane Mccallum)
• Bridges (Wendy Murphy)
• Chalking Circles Bowlingreen (Malcolm Hamilton)
• Crossing that Bridge (Bahar Syed)
• First Steps (Edith Anderson)
• Marley (Taban Yassan)
• Me and My Best Friend (Alicia Quinn)
• Reaching for the stars (Alex Rankin)
• Suspended Animation (Jane Duffus)
• The Bridge to Humanity (Andrea)
• The Current (James Dyer)
• Crossings (Madalin Durell)
• Nubian Soul Bridge (Tim Goodman)