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Winning Stories

WELKIN GENRE PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED

The Boy Wraps His Arms Around You

by Karen Crawford

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The Oracle of All Wisdom

by Guan Un

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Issue

by Jeffrey-Michael Kane

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The Night of the Fireflies

by Vaishnavi Pusapati

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First Photograph of the Moon — John William Draper, 1840

by Jo Gatford

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Detailed instructions on how to attract a fairy visitor to your home

by Karen Baumgart

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Sundowning

by Kathryn Kulpa

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A Minute Before The Windows Rattle, I’m Singing 'One, Two, Buckle My Shoe' With My Kid

by Mandira Pattnaik

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After the End Was the Beginning

by Sarah Freligh

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Whenever My Husband Reaches a Sexual Climax, he Shouts ‘Annabel!’

by S A Greene

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Having Received His Call-Up Papers, Arthur Jenkins Invites You To The Cinema

by Alison Wassell

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August 4, 2020

by Yara Zgheib

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What Stays Behind

by Muntasir Salman

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That Witch, Gopa Devi, She Burn

by Ani Banerjee

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Time for Tom to Go

by Emily Rinkema

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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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