THE 2022 FAVERSHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED – WINNERS ANNOUNCED BELOW
 
Judge Nicholas Royle

* First Prize £350
* Second Prize £50
  • Highly commended: Acts of Identity Vandalism, by Helen Kennedy; Art, by Paul Adams; The New Person, by Stella Eames; The Right Way to Live, by Michael Lawson
  • Additional prize awarded to entries from ME13 – joint first prize: A Sweet Hope of Glory, by Deborah Cook; The Acme Audio Ace, by John Tyte

The judge for the 2022 short story competition, Nicholas Royle, is the author of seven novels, two novellas and three volumes of short fiction, and was at this year’s Faversham Literary Festival to talk about his latest work White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector. He has edited 20 anthologies of short stories. Reader in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and head judge of the Manchester Fiction Prize, he also runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories as limited-edition chapbooks. He works as an editor for Salt Publishing.

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