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Winning Stories

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - FIRST PLACE

August 4, 2020

by Yara Zgheib

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SECOND PLACE

What Stays Behind

by Muntasir Salman

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - THIRD PLACE

That Witch, Gopa Devi, She Burn

by Ani Banerjee

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Time for Tom to Go

by Emily Rinkema

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - HIGHLY COMMENDED

His Girl, Forwards and Backwards

by Randal Eldon Greene

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S PRIZE

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

by Gillian O’Shaughnessy

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

What the darkness knew

by Bill Nwonwu

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

The empty fork, the empty place

by Mary Harron

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

& men

by Jacqueline Parker

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

That Day

by Shofiqure Rahman

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

The Curator Who Counted Shadows

by Vaishnavi Pusapati

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

weak beans

by Barnaby Wick

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

The Bit Part Actress

by Jo Withers

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

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

by Karen Baumgart

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

John

by Petra Marteleur

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Pattern

by David Anson Lee

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

When you take a bite

by Robin Zlotnick

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S PRIZE

Things My Brother Explains With Absolute Authority

by J.M.C. Kane

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

Let’s go out again

by Tacilim Oréfice

WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

On the longest night of the darkest year

by Melissa Fitzpatrick

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