The Bumblebee Contest Shortlist

Drumroll, please.

Writers and readers and other good folk, it is with great pleasure that we announce the shortlist for the Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest.  Choosing between so many excellent stories was a challenge, but at last we narrowed the entries down to ten.

Here are the authors and stories, listed alphabetically by author’s first name:

• Charity Tahmaseb, “Lucky”
• Ingrid Jendrzejewski, “Crushed Velvet”
• Jay Allisan, “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”
• Katie Gray, “The Pit”
• Laura Taylor, “A Royal Institution”
• Leslie Wibberley, “The Weight of Time”
• Melanie Cossey, “Even Steven”
• Soramimi Hanarejima, “The Utility of Mandatory Hilarity”
• Tristan Marajh, “Roshan”
• William Kaufmann, “Bedside”

Congratulations to these three authors!  The winner chosen by our judge the brilliant Bob Thurber will be announced tomorrow …

PS:  Poets, don’t forget that the earlybird entry fee rate for the Magpie Award for Poetry ends tomorrow too!