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Winning Stories

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - FIRST PLACE

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

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - HIGHLY COMMENDED

A Parable of Slow Songs

by Guan Un

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Rotten Rats

by NmaHassan Muhammad

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Plaint of a Slug in a Field of August

by Philippa Bowe

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S PRIZE

We built a time machine in your ward

by James Montgomery

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Abstract Exploration of Fragmented Relationships in a Work that Embodies Themes such as Obsession, Loss, Alienation, the Breakdown of Formal ideas and the Manipulation of Control through Sexuality

by Allan Miller

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Pantoum for an Interrogatory

by Brian Bruso

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Like a memory, or maybe only a dream

by Laura Besley

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

We are waiting –

by Susmita Bhattacharya

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

You want to peel back your skin

by Suzanne Hicks

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S PRIZE

Unreliable Narrators

by Shira Musicant

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

The Heat of Fusion

by Coleman Bigelow

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

de Ville

by Clyde Liffey

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Suki ought to exorcise the spaceship

by Sharon Telfer

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Later, looking back, I was embarrassed I hadn’t realised I was dead

by Daniel Addercouth

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Things I imagined caused the tears of Bragolin’s "The Crying Boy" which hung on the wall in my childhood home

by Sarah Barnett

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Mayday

by Jamey Gallagher

WELKIN PRIZE 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Haineko (Grey Cat)

by Linda M. Bayley

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