QuietManDave Prize 2020

The winners of the inaugural QuietManDave Prize were Elisabeth Ingram Wallace and David Calder.

Read more about the winners.

Flash Fiction Prize Long List
‘comes the sea’ – Ali Al-Jamri, Manchester, UK
‘Taper’ – Allison Alsup, New Orleans, USA
‘Young Falcons’ – Hazel Atkinson, Edinburgh, UK
‘Full Stop’ – Edward Barnfield, Dubai, UAE
‘No Matter What’ – Laura Besley, Leicester, UK
‘Taupe’ – Pauline Brown, Epsom, UK
‘Eighty’ – Devora Busheri, Jerusalem, Israel
‘Mandarin, Mother and Horse’ – Jake Cullen, Shanghai, China
‘The Shed’ – Joseph Daly, Manchester, UK
‘I Still Love You’ – Kalman Dean-Richards, Oldbury, UK
‘Two Boys Together’ – Natasha Derczynski, Berkshire, UK
‘Mrs Veal Knits a Disaster’ – Alanna Donaldson, Marlborough, UK
‘The Night of the Paintings’ – Catherine Edmunds, County Durham, UK
‘Toots’ – Christine Entwisle, Cumbria, UK
‘Wonder’ – Mark Farley, Swindon, UK
‘Swerving Destiny’ – Frances Gapper, London, UK
‘You can knit this lovely garment’ – Rosie Garland, Manchester UK
‘Forest Bather’ – Linda Goulden, Derbyshire, UK
‘Waiting for Felix’ – Elizabeth Gibson, Manchester, UK
‘She Understands the World Through What It Is Not’ – Donna Greenwood, Barrowford, UK
‘Lowry’ – Naomi Hamill, Manchester, UK
‘Nothing’ – I. S. Hanna, Belfast, UK
‘All Seems Well on Departure’ – Bethan Hay, Kirkwall, UK
‘Silence’ – Joanne Hook, Salford, UK
‘Cut Through’ – Jude Higgins, Bristol, UK
‘The Malcontent’ – Porter Huddleston, West Palm Beach, USA
‘Granny Smith, Queene’ – Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, Glasgow, UK
‘The Mother’ – Emma Jenkins, Liverpool, UK
‘Purple Purposes’ – Cerys Jones, Winchester UK
‘Family Group in Bronze’ – Wendy Jones, London, UK
‘Egg’ – Alison V King, Cardiff, UK
‘Adorable’ – Wan Phing Lim, Penang, Malaysia
‘Ecksteins Duck’ – Sean Lusk, Dorchester, UK
‘Mourning Glory’ – Sarah Mackey, London, UK
‘Nesting House’ – Niamh Mac Cabe, County Leitrim, Ireland
‘Parallel Paths’ – William Millward, Hope Valley, UK
‘Cunicular’ by Jess Napthine-Hodgkinson, Glossop, UK
‘The Female Beatles’ – Julie Reverb, London, UK
‘The Lost Girls – Helen Rye, Norwich, UK
‘Reel’ – Helen Rye, Norwich, UK
‘The Sacrifices’ – Suzie Samant, London, UK
‘Fish Bowl: A Play’ – Chelsea Sutton, Studio City, USA
‘The Village Shop’ – Ken Taylor, Leeds, UK
‘Hairhap’ – Sarah Tweed, London, UK
‘Family Frames’ – Alison Woodhouse, Bath, UK
Flash Non-Fiction Prize Long List
‘all the time and dead things’ – Polly Atkin, Cumbria, UK
‘These Insane Animals, or, A Strange Interlude’ – David Calder, Manchester, UK
‘Riyad El Hussani’ – Michelle Christophorou, Guildford, UK
‘How to watch TV all day with your lover’ – Amy Clarke, London, UK
‘From the children’s ward, Berlin, March 2020’ – Zenobia Edge, Berlin, Germany
‘Mud’ – Alex Eiseman, New Orleans, USA
‘Minutia’ – Kendra Ellin, Preston, UK
‘Methodology for Magpies’ – Maria Gil Ulldemolins, Brussels, Belgium
‘It’s Good to Talk’ – Mark Hastings, Manchester, UK
‘Research for a novel: Interview with a swimmer’ – EJ Hayes, Llantwit Major, UK
‘Night Demons’ – Jude Higgins, Bristol, UK
‘Mafia Cake’ – Megan Holland, Manchester, UK
‘Scuttle’ – Sarah Hymas, Lancaster, UK
‘Found in Nora’s house after her death’ – Sarah Jasmon, Manchester, UK
‘Heirlooms’ – Jupiter Jones, Abergavenny, UK
‘Mum’ – Paul Jones, Liverpool, UK
‘Eighty-Seven’ – DK, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
‘The Hotel Druzba’ – Bethany Kaylor, Berkeley, USA
‘Welcome to England’ – Robin Lloyd-Jones, Helensborough, UK
‘The One That Got Away’ – Alan McCormick, Wicklow, Ireland
‘Speed of Sound’ – Anne O’Brien, Skagen, Denmark
‘Mirrors Lie’ – Mariem Omari, Glasgow, UK
‘Ghost Words’ – E. E. Rhodes, Cardiff, UK
‘Beggar!’ – Hazell Ward, Wrexham, UK
‘Where the Nightingale Sang’ – Sarah Westcott, Kent, UK
‘HDU’ – Mary Wight, Scottish Borders, UK

Flash Fiction Prize Short List

Pauline Brown
Pauline Brown worked as a freelance film production accountant before turning her hand to writing several years ago. Since then her work has won the Cheshire Prize for Literature, has received an honorary mention in the Fish Short Story Prize, has twice won the quarterly Flash 500 competition, and has been shortlisted in both the Bridport Prize and Fish Prize flash fiction categories. She is currently plotting a television drama and a novel.
Natasha Derczynski
Natasha Derczynski is a writer and healthcare assistant currently living and working in North London. She completed a BA in English with Creative Writing and MA in Creative Writing, both at Brunel University London. Her short fiction has been published by Queen Mob’s Teahouse, the Manzano Mountain Review and has won the NAWG’s 100x100 flash fiction competition. Natasha believes the best writing is contradictory, entertaining as it challenges, honouring tradition whilst disrupting the status quo and connecting intimacy with universality.
Alanna Donaldson
Alanna Donaldson is a writer from Great Bedwyn whose short stories have been published in print and online. She works in publishing and belongs to an inspiring creative writing group.
Rosie Garland
Writer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie Garland’s work appears in Under the Radar, Spelk,Manchester Review, Interpreter’s House,The Rialto, Ellipsis, Butcher’s Dog, Longleaf Review,The North and elsewhere. New poetry collection ‘What Girls do the Dark’ (Nine Arches Press) is out in October 2020. Latest novel The Night Brother was described by The Times as “a delight…with shades of Angela Carter.” In 2019, Val McDermid named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT writers.
Linda Goulden
Linda Goulden was born Scots, grew up in Manchester and lives in Derbyshire. She only recently began to write stories, for the first time since childhood, but has been writing poetry for the past decade or so. Her poems have won prizes (Poets and Players, Nottingham Poetry), have been set for choral singing and appear in magazines and anthologies and in her pamphlet of monologue poems, ‘Speaking parts’ (Half Moon Books, 2019). She is currently working on collaborations with artists.
Elisabeth Ingram Wallace
Elisabeth Ingram Wallace is the winner of the Mogford Short Story Prize, Writing the Future, and a Scottish Book Trust ‘New Writers Award.’ Her work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Atticus Review, Flash Frontier and many other journals and anthologies, including Best Microfiction 2019. A founding editor of ‘BIFFY’, the Best British and Irish Flash Fiction series, she is Submissions Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, and Senior Editor for Flash Fiction at TSS Publishing. She has a Creative Writing M.Litt. with Distinction from the University of Glasgow, and is currently writing a novel.
Emma Jenkins
Emma Jenkins is a new writer from Liverpool. She works as an educator and art facilitator, and has recently completed an MA in Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Her work is characterised by its hybrid identities. She fuses together the disparate elements of memoir, fiction and philosophy, in order to best reflect the fractured identity of the female.
Niamh Mac Cabe
Niamh Mac Cabe is an award-winning writer and visual artist, with experience as editor, mentor, and collaborator/director on many multi-disciplinary art projects. Dublin-born, she grew up in Paris, in north-west Ireland, and in Washington DC, where she graduated with a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art. She worked overseas for several years in the Animated Film industry, but returned to Ireland to raise her children. She is published in over forty literary journals and anthologies in Ireland, the U.K., and the U.S. She lives with her sons in rural Leitrim, Ireland.
Julie Reverb
Julie Reverb is a London-based fiction writer and former singer. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The White Review, New York Tyrant, The Quietus, Gorse, 3:AM and elsewhere. Her novella No Moon was published by Calamari Press. She is currently editing a novel about makeup titled Blueprint For A Face.
Helen Rye
Helen Rye has won the Bath Flash Award, the Reflex Fiction contest and third place in the Bristol Short Story Prize. She is a Best Small Fictions 2020 winner and her stories have been nominated and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Pushcart Prize. She is part of the editorial teams at SmokeLong Quarterly and Lighthouse Literary Journal and she helps out from time to time at TSS Publishing and Ellipsis Zine. She is studying part-time for an MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, where she is the 2019/20 Annabel Abbs Scholar.
Chelsea Sutton
Chelsea Sutton writes weird fiction, plays and films. She was a 2016 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow and a member of the Clarion UCSD 2020/21 Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. Her short story collection, Curious Monsters, was the runner-Up for the 2018 Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize. Her writing has appeared in Bourbon Penn, The Texas Observer, Exposition Review,Cosmonaut Avenue, Luna Station Quarterly and Pithead Chapel, and is forthcoming in Blood Orange Review, Craft Literary, Sequestrum, and F(r)iction. She was a 2018 Sewanee Writers Conference Playwright Fellow and a Humanitas PlayLA award winner. MFA UC Riverside.
Flash Non-Fiction Prize Short List

David Calder
David Calder was born in Canada and raised in the United States. He completed a PhD in Theatre and Drama at Northwestern University before moving to the UK to teach at the University of Manchester. His essays on theatre have appeared in Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, and several anthologies, and his first monograph was published in 2019 by Manchester University Press. ‘These Insane Animals, or, A Strange Interlude’ is his first piece of flash non-fiction. He lives in Manchester with his partner Daniel and their hypothetical cats.
Zenobia Edge
Zenobia Edge grew up in Birmingham, graduating from Oxford University with an MA in German and Philosophy. Having spent four years learning the language, she then spent six years working in social care and slowly forgetting it before taking the opportunity to refresh her German with a three-month work placement in Berlin. Seven years later and Berlin has become home, where she lives with her husband and son. Currently half way through her maternity leave, she is delighted that it has afforded her the opportunity to reconnect with her love of writing.
Alex Eiseman
Alex Eiseman is a software engineer living in New Orleans, Louisiana. They practice many hobbies including writing, pottery, biking, roller-skating, juggling, stilt-walking, fire spinning, crocheting, drawing, gardening and are always open to new projects. This is their first published work of writing. They have taken classes through the New Orleans Writer’s Workshop and some other writing classes while studying biomedical engineering at Tulane University.
Jude Higgins
Jude Higgins’ flash fiction has been published in many anthologies and literary magazines including Fictive Dream,Flash Frontier, FlashBack Fiction, Moonpark Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Ellipsis Zine, Pidgeon Holes, The Cabinet of Heed and five NFFD anthologies. Her flash fictions have been selected for BIFFY50, 2019 and 2020. and nominated for a Pushcart prize and Best Small Fictions, 2020. Jude’s flash fiction pamphlet The Chemist’s House was published by V.Press in 2017. She runs Bath Flash Fiction Award, is a Director of Flash Fiction Festivals UK and the short-short fiction press, Ad Hoc Fiction.
Sarah Jasmon
Sarah Jasmon lives on the Leeds/Liverpool canal in Lancashire, which is also the setting for her first novel, The Summer of Secrets. Her second novel, You Never Told Me, was published in March this year. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Harper’s Bazaar short story competition, and last year her creative non-fiction essay ‘In Search of the Port of Manchester’ appeared in the Port anthology from Dunlin Press. She is an Associate Tutor in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Geography at MMU’s Centre for Place Writing.
Bethany Kaylor
Bethany Kaylor is a writer and illustrator in Berkeley, California. Her essays and short fiction can be found on Entropy, DIAGRAM, and Mid-American Review. In her spare time, she moonlights as a landscaper, paints dogs, and cooks lots of vegetables.
Robin Lloyd-Jones
Robin Lloyd-Jones is an award-winning author of 15 published books. He writes fiction (mostly historical novels and short stories) and non-fiction (travel, outdoor, biography and environmental topics). His publishers include Gollancz, Arena, Hutchinson, Canongate, Sandstone Press. After an early childhood in India Robin went to school in Devon and then to Cambridge University (MA in Social Anthropology). He retired from a career in education to focus on his writing. Robin lives on the west coast of Scotland with his wife. He is a keen hill-walker, photographer and sea kayaker. His most recent book is Autumn Voices (PlaySpace, 2018).
Anne O’Brien
Anne O’Brien is a Hennessy New Irish Writer. Her work is published in A Short Affair (Simon & Schuster), The London Magazine, The Irish Times, and alongside Margaret Atwood in Bay Lên, an anthology of international short stories translated into Vietnamese by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. Winner of the Bath Short Story Award (2016), Anne has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award, and BBC Opening Lines. She divides her time between Dublin and Skagen while working on a short story collection and reading for a Creative Writing PhD with Lancaster University.
Mariem Omari
Mariem Omari is a writer and activist committed to promoting stories that strengthen the voice for human rights and equality. Her first play, ‘If I Had A Girl…’ focused on honour violence in Scotland. She was awarded the National Theatre of Scotland’s Starter for 10 to develop ‘One Mississippi’ on men and trauma, and in 2019 she wrote ‘The Trojans’ based on the stories of Syrian refugees, and ‘Paper Memories’, based on stories of migration and displacement. Her writing also spans radio drama, essays, and creative non-fiction. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland, and is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Bijli Productions.