Empty Nest
It’s finally here, the shortlist for our 6th and last round of this series of micro fiction writing competitions. Apologies for how long the process has taken this time around. I moved my family over 1300 kms away and to say the process has been a rollercoaster ride of twists and turns is an understatement. We are still not in our rental home (one more week to go) after it was delayed a few weeks, and I’ve got my computer set up in our holiday rental accomodation so that I can finally get this post up and put an end to the misery of waiting for your all. Your patience has been amazing and I thank you all for sticking with me.
I’m still hoping to have the anthology published and available by Mothers day so fingers crossed there are no more big dramas or events for us over the next few months.
Now for the big news. The shortlist for round 6 of this series of the Mum Life Stories Micro Fiction Writing Competition.
Writers were asked to write a story of 500 words or less around the theme ‘Empty Nest’. They could interpret it any way they saw fit as long as it was in narrative form. I’m happy to say that 99% of submissions stuck to these guidelines and made reading for us judges, a pleasurable experience.
Round 6 Shortlist
Here are our 10 ‘Empty Nest’ themed, shortlisted stories in alphabetical order (please note the order has no bearing on placement):
- Driving Home For Christmas, JO HOLMES, United Kingdom
- Falling in Folds, CHRIS TAPPER, Australia
- Mothering Swans, GEJA HADDERINGH, Netherlands
- Moving On, ROSEMARY GEMMEL, United Kingdom
- Mums Empty Nest What’s App Group , ALYSON HILBOURNE, United Kingdom
- New Home, BEVANNY STEARMAN, United States
- One More Hug, NISHA PATEL, United Kingdom
- Our Nest Isn’t Empty. You Can Visit Anytime, CONNIE BOLAND, Canada
- Porcelain Mirror, DOUGLAS PEREIRA, Canada
- You Can Never Say When It Will Rain In Mecca, YANA SPENCER, Saudi Arabia
Congratulations to all our shortlisted stories, they will all appear in the anthology and all receive a free digital copy of the anthology when it is published. Winners will be contacted shortly so keep an eye on your inbox if your name appears on our shortlist, and these winners will be announced within the next few days so stay tuned.
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Future Micro-Fiction Competitions
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