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29 September 2017

Idea short story competition: the winners

We had more than 100 entries to our short story competition and over the summer we've been reading them through to find our longlist, shortlist, and, finally, our winners...

Over 18s: 
Winner: Yirmeyahu, Chris Greenhalgh
First runner up: The Walker, Mark Thornton
Second runner up: Prologue to his coming, Lester Amann

Under 18s:
Joint winners: Mr Mdaiwa's mercy - Amisadai Monger and Resurrection of hope  - Hannah Mead

Congratulations to all our winners and runners up!

We will be printing the winning stories in the next few editions of idea.