QuietManDave Prize 2022
Finalists and winners.
QuietManDave Prize 2020
The winners of the QuietManDave Prize 2022 have been revealed as Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Sara Hills.
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Flash Fiction Prize Long List
- Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Bristol, UK - Double Lives
- Paul Bassett Davies, UK - Handsome
- Nick Black, London, UK - The Lost Kingdom
- Sorrel Briggs, Leeds, UK - You Were Seven
- Stuart Cavet, Southampton, UK - What Happened
- Pauline Clooney, Kildare, Ireland - My Mr Shakespeare
- Sara Crowley, West Sussex, UK - The Grief Path
- Ian Humphreys, West Yorkshire, UK - Whose Story?
- Fhionna Mac, Clyde Valley, UK - The Man on the Beach
- Niamh Mac Cabe, Leitrim, Ireland - A Marram Grass Cradling
- Jo Lygo, Staffordshire Moorlands, UK - All We Wanted
- Rosaleen Lynch, Cork, Ireland - Free-diving Five Hundred Million Years Ago
- Leeor Ohayon, Norwich, UK - Prayers
- Nicholas Ruddock, Canada - Dupont Street
- Kate Scott, London, UK - Double Fantasy
- Diane Simmons, Bath, UK - Unwatched
- Mark Stewart, UK - Rip Tide
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Flash Non-Fiction Prize Long List
- Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Bristol, UK - Unvoiced
- Bradford Gyori, Winchester, UK - Hotel Woman
- Sara Hills, Rugby, UK - Door Slam, 1980
- Jupiter Jones, Abergavenny, UK - How to Insert a Zip Fastener
- Benjamin Judge, Littleborough, UK - The Child Can Not Touch the Owl
- Kate Karko, Hertford, UK - Ghost Walking
- Annie Lord, Edinburgh, UK - Cyst - Hand - Spine
- Ruby Martin, Manchester, UK - A Review of Big Boys in One Impossible Act
- Patricia Newbury, Cairo, Egypt - To the man sitting in the row behind me at UGC Odéon …clutching at half-mast
- Tim Relf, Leicestershire, UK - Last night I dreamt the perfect poem
- Josephine Rose, UK - 100ml of Eternity
- Josephine Rose, UK - At Home I Told the Walls
- Peter Scales, Derby, UK - A house fire
- Diane Shipley, Sheffield, UK - Rough Winds
- Edwina Supyue, Manchester, UK - A movement meditation on/with chicken soup
- Susan Wigmore, Abingdon, UK - Balancing Act
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Flash Fiction Prize Short List
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is an emerging flash fiction writer living in Bristol. Her flash narratives have been published in many literary journals and anthologies, including New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, Janus Literary, and Ellipsis Zine. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and she was a finalist in Flash Frog’s international award and New Flash Fiction Review’s annual Flash Fiction contest. She has been shortlisted and highly commended in the prestigious Bath Flash Fiction Award, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and she won the flash fiction contest organised by Welsh publisher Lucent Dreaming.
Sorrel Briggs
Sorrel Briggs is a recent English graduate from West Yorkshire. Her work has appeared at Tate Britain and in various publications. Winner of the Walter Swan Poetry Prize, she writes poetry as well as fiction and is interested in the possibilities offered by bridging the two.
Stuart Cavet
Stuart was formerly an international lawyer, but has taken what he hopes to be a permanent career break to pursue writing full-time. He has had short stories and flash fiction published in Makarelle and Tigershark, and has been shortlisted by Writers’ Forum in one of its monthly competitions and been a finalist in one of Globe Soup’s regular competitions. He has also written a novel for which he is currently seeking representation.
Pauline Clooney
Pauline Clooney was born in Manchester, raised in Ireland, and currently lives there in County Kildare. With a BA in History, Sociology and English, an MLitt on Charlotte Brontë, and an MA in Creative Writing, in 2017 she left a teaching career to concentrate on writing. Her debut novel, Charlotte & Arthur (Merdog Books) was published in 2021. Awards include winner of the 2015 Penguin Ireland/RTE Guide short story, 2021 recipient of the Denis O’Driscoll literary bursary, and 2022 recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility award. Her current works in progress are a W. B. Yeats bio fiction and a short story collection.
Ian Humphreys
Ian Humphreys lives in West Yorkshire. His debut poetry collection Zebra (Nine Arches Press) was nominated for the Portico Prize. He is the editor of Why I Write Poetry (Nine Arches), and the producer and co-editor of After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath (Nine Arches). Ian’s work has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won first prize in the Hamish Canham Prize. His poems are widely published in journals, including The Poetry Review and Poetry London, and he has written for the BBC. Ian is a fellow of The Complete Works. ianhumphreyspoet.com
Jo Lygo
Jo Lygo lives with her husband and their Schnauzer, Poppy, in the village where she was born. Before moving back to Staffordshire, she taught French and English in France and the East End of London. She has an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge and has enjoyed a wide range of shorter courses. She has won or been placed in various competitions for flash fiction and short stories with her flash fiction appearing in two anthologies. She is currently reworking a dual timeline novel set in rural France to include elements of flash fiction alongside longer chapters.
Rosaleen Lynch
Rosaleen Lynch, is an Irish youth and community worker and writer in the East End of London with words in a number of journals, including New Flash Fiction Review, HAD, Fractured Lit, Craft, SmokeLong Quarterly, Jellyfish Review, EllipsisZine, Mslexia, Litro and Fish, and has been shortlisted by Bath and the Bridport Prize, is a winner of the HISSAC Flash Fiction Competition and the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, and has a collection/workbook coming out in 2023 with Ad Hoc Fiction and can be found on Twitter @quotes_52 and 52Quotes.blogspot.com.
Niamh Mac Cabe
Niamh Mac Cabe is published in many journals, including The Stinging Fly, Narrative Magazine, Southword, Mslexia, Wasafiri, No Alibis Press, The London Magazine, The Irish Independent, Aesthetica, Structo, The Forge Literary Magazine, Bare Fiction, The Lonely Crowd, and The Lighthouse. She’s been nominated thrice for the Pushcart Prize, twice for the Best Small Fictions Award, and selected for the Best British & Irish Flash Fiction list. She’s won First Place in many competitions, including The Wasafiri Prize, John McGahern Award, and Molly Keane Award, and Runner-Up in The Costa Short Story Award, Galley Beggar Press Prize, and many others. http://niamhmaccabe.com/
Leeor Ohayon
Leeor Ohayon is a writer from London based in Norwich, where he has recently begun a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. His short fiction has appeared in the White Review, Prospect Magazine, and the RSL Review. Leeor is the 2021 winner of the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S Pritchett Short Story Prize, and is part of the 2022-2023 cohort of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme.
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Flash Non-Fiction Prize Short List
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is an emerging flash fiction writer living in Bristol. Her flash narratives have been published in many literary journals and anthologies, including New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, Janus Literary, and Ellipsis Zine. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and she was a finalist in Flash Frog’s international award and New Flash Fiction Review’s annual Flash Fiction contest. She has been shortlisted and highly commended in the prestigious Bath Flash Fiction Award, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and she won the flash fiction contest organised by Welsh publisher Lucent Dreaming.
Sara Hills
Sara Hills is the author of The Evolution of Birds, winner of the 2022 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection. Her stories have been selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50, the BIFFY 50, and The Best Small Fictions, as well as widely published in anthologies and magazines, including SmokeLong Quarterly, Cheap Pop, Fractured Lit, Cease Cows, Flash Frog, Splonk, and Reckon Review. Originally from the Sonoran Desert, Sara lives in Warwickshire, UK and tweets from @sarahillswrites.
Benjamin Judge
Benjamin Judge completed his Creative Writing MA at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester. His fiction has been shortlisted for, published in and/or rejected by various awards, anthologies, magazines and websites. His creative non-fiction story, Drinking Coffee with My Father in The Most Expensive Cafe in Manchester, won the Real Story Award. But nobody likes his poetry. Not even his own mother. Not even him.
Kate Karko
Kate Karko grew up in Hertfordshire. Her first book, Namma was a memoir about living as a bride in a nomadic tribe in the grasslands of Tibet. She has published features on Tibetan culture in The Independent, Tatler and Selvedge - where she was News Editor, and poetry in the competition anthology, Beyond the Storm. She has a degree in Cultural Studies and was awarded distinction for her MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. There, she wrote her mythological YA novel, The Nomad’s Song for her sons. Currently, she divides her time between writing and primary teaching.
Annie Lord
Annie Lord is an artist and writer based in Edinburgh. Annie has been commissioned to create a range of environmental public artworks including an exploration of river pollution and fish migration for Forth Rivers Trust and a network of 160 apple trees planted across coastal Edinburgh. A book telling the story of that project, The Neighbouring Orchard, was written and illustrated by Annie and published in September 2022. She has performed at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Science Festival and Hidden Door Festival and in summer 2022 was artist in residence at Kinghorn Ecology Centre. She studied sculpture at the Slade and is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing (nonfiction) at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Ruby Martin
Ruby Martin is a working-class writer and performer originally from Cornwall now based in Manchester. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book Fussy, a memoir about food that is coming out in summer 2023 with Saturday Boy Books.
Patricia Newbery
Patricia Newbery is a British-Irish translator and editor. She has lived abroad for much of her adult life, for the last 20 years or so in Cairo.
Peter Scales
Peter Scales lives in Derby. He is a retired university lecturer in Education. He graduated from the University of Bath with a BSc in Social Sciences in 1980 and completed a MA in Education in 2010 at the University of Derby. As a retirement project he undertook a MA in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University, graduating in 2019. Having written successful textbooks on teaching and learning in higher and further education, he decided to try something more ‘creative’ in retirement, with a particular interest in life writing.
Susan Wigmore
Retirement has given Susan the space for reinvention and she takes great delight in finding herself – in her sixties – an emerging writer. She walks, canoes and writes enthusiastically, and enjoys challenging herself in all three. Her work has been published, placed or listed by Fractured Lit, Globe Soup, Reflex Fiction, Oxford Flash Fiction, The Daily Telegraph Short Story Competition, Fish Flash Fiction and Sci Po, an initiative exploring the creative common ground between science and poetry. She is currently working on a novella-in-flash.