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Winning Stories

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - HIGHLY COMMENDED

His Girl, Forwards and Backwards

by Randal Eldon Greene

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If we'd said yes when you rang home to borrow four hundred dollars

by Gillian O’Shaughnessy

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What the darkness knew

by Bill Nwonwu

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The empty fork, the empty place

by Mary Harron

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& men

by Jacqueline Parker

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That Day

by Shofiqure Rahman

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The Curator Who Counted Shadows

by Vaishnavi Pusapati

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weak beans

by Barnaby Wick

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The Bit Part Actress

by Jo Withers

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Because you want to understand, I describe how I once wore suffering on the outside of my body

by Karen Baumgart

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John

by Petra Marteleur

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Pattern

by David Anson Lee

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When you take a bite

by Robin Zlotnick

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Things My Brother Explains With Absolute Authority

by J.M.C. Kane

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Let’s go out again

by Tacilim Oréfice

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On the longest night of the darkest year

by Melissa Fitzpatrick

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Nine-one-one

by Sarah Freligh

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SECOND PLACE

You Say When the Rain Comes, it Will Be a Message From God

by Karen Baumgart

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - THIRD PLACE

They won’t let you in

by Nora Nadjarian

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A Parable of Slow Songs

by Guan Un

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