University of Sunderland in Association with Waterstones Short Story Award 2016 – longlist
Phew! As you can see we have a very very long long-list for the adults. It was incredibly difficult distilling all of the entries into these groups. If you don’t see your name below, please don’t be put off. Remember, all readers will have different perspectives. You may have written an incredible story but perhaps the ending didn’t quite hit the right note. There were some stories here that I thought, if only you’d done that… and given such a strong field there were stories that we reluctantly put to one side for such reasons. So a ‘no’ is really a case for a redraft,a rethink and a re-submission. As is the case with all writing.
Thanks to everyone who participated. It’s been a pleasure and congratulations to those on the long-list.
The shortlist will be out at the end of August.
(technical-formal-jargonry: Please note, due to the sheer volume of submissions we cannot comment on work on an individual basis, as much as we would like to)
Overs
Taking Control – Tony Oswick
A Child of Dust – Sandra Morgan
A Clump of Nsenene – Farah Ahmed
A Fate that’s Fallen – Hannah Smith
A Kiss – Maeve Henry
A Random Act of Kindness – Robert Bage
A Short Timeline of Enemies and Friends – Shirley Day
A Technical Hitch – Felicity King
A Thirst for Freedom – Anne O’Connor
After the Butcher – Rob Walton
All the Young Dudes – Glenda Young
Anyone Can Explode – Pia Ghosh-Roy
Aubergine – Jennifer Harvey
Available Data – Natalie Poyser
Big Bones – Harriett Springbett
Blackbirds and Broccoli – Joanne Bales
Blackie Boy – Janet H Swinney
Box Boy – Martin Nathan
Bottled Up – Richard Lakin
Can you Smell Chips, Mam? – Debz Hobbs-Wyatt
Clean Slate – Hilary Slade
Clem – Pam Plumb
Collar’d – Helen Bridgett
Daddy – Ann Butler-Rowland
Dead Man Walking – Kristien Potgieter
Dear Me – Rob Keeley
Death Calls – Stephanie Gallon
Der Zug – Samuel Marlow-Stevens
The Diary of Amil Nazaar – JRJ Richmond
Difficult Feet – Paul Attmere
Embarrassment of Riches – Dan Brotzel
Epilogues – Dave Wakeley
Everybody Wants Baby Girls – Kate Jefford
Feathers – Fiona Ritchie-Walker
From Hull to the Hooghly – Sally Jubb
Grandmother’s Footsteps – Julie Hayman
Hero – RV Jones
His Dead Wife – Frances Gapper
Iris Nilson – I Once Remember a Story
In Chamonix – Sally Jubb
Intimations – Padraic Walsh
The Architect – James Hodgson
Killing Coldplay – Marc Owen Jones
Lust for Life – DRD Bruton
Magical Mood Swings – Dan Brotzel
The Moor – Mark Hillsdon
Matador – Melanie Whipman
Mermaids – Catherine Edmunds
Morpheus’ World – Maria Fotiadou
Morphine – Ann Butler Rowlands
My father was a lighthouse keeper – Martin Nathan
No Good Deed – James Whitman
Not Because we Will – Evan Guildford-Blake
On the Seventh Day – Lynne Voyce
On this Day – Aaron Wright
Paul Newman Eyes – KL Jefford
Plane-spotting – Dan Brotzel
Pun and Mrs Why – Cath Nichols
Resolutions – Simon Holloway
Rita’s Decision – Lisa Reily
Second Sight – Heather Parry
Silent Retreat – Alan McCormick
Someone Else’s Shoes – Lyndsey Darcy
Sonnets of the Broken Girl – David R Ford
Four Runny Fried Eggs – Anne Colledge
Simmer on the Ward – Rebecca Burns
Milan’s Box – Karen Alderman
Performance – Viccy Adams
The Hills of Ffostrasol – Alex Barr
The Lost Boys Club – Stephen Howard
The Luna Council – Lynn Voyce
The Neverborn – Ray Hopkins
The Night I Killed a Man – Sarah Evans
The Romance of Scorpions – Katherine Orton
The Songs of Selby Twigg – Kathy Hoyle
The Woman who Shrank in the Wash – Glenda Young
The Last Firework – Philippa Holloway
Thin Air – Ingrid Jendrzejewski
This Time – Elizabeth Ottoson
To be a pill, grim – Dan Brotzel
Tombstoning – Emily Bullock
Twenty-Seven Masks – Laura Steven
Two Sentences of Turkish – Shirley Muir
Victim Impact – Marilyn Appleby
Unders
A glimpse through Blue Grass – Ruby Eastwood
The Tiny Big Difference – Helena Sinai
Ensnared – Leah Palmer
Fighting for Freedom – Abby Moore
I Cried a River for You – Shannon Pack
If Only – Nupur Doshi
Memories – Sianna Hughes
Red Knight – Savinay Pavneet Sood
Returning – Josie Astin
Speechless – Emily Tubbs
Crimson Downpour – Amelia Chadwick
The Unusual Princess Story – Rowan Mathilda
The Witherhorn – Harry Anderson
Two Lives as One – Jenny Hurnell
Vanilla – Amber Slade
Letter from a Brother – Lu Jia Lee
One Last Time – Megan Hill
