The shortlists for the 2022 Allingham Festival Flash Fiction & Poetry Competitions are now available. Congratulations to everyone, and best of luck in the rest of the competition.
The three finalists in each category will be announced soon. The finalists will be invited to read their work in our streaming Awards Ceremony (via Zoom), before the winners will be announced by the judges, Kate Ennals (poetry) and Mia Gallagher (fiction).
To register to attend the Awards Ceremony on Zoom, please follow this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yX80lv9PSGeVQ0Rbx0ZSWw
2022 Allingham Flash Fiction Competition Shortlist
selected from 109 entries
Bin Juice – Luca Melis
Blood Cycles – Bríd McGinley
Duelling at the Lime Kiln – Shane Leavy
Gym Floor – Rachel Alexander
Invisible Men – Mary Angland
Nighthawks – Christina Campbell
Not All Men – Emma M Murray
Summer of ‘73 – Frances Gapper
Sweaty Deli Ham – Luca Melis
That Vonnegut Thing – Partridge Boswell
The Blue of My Sea – Paul Joyce
The Dominatrix Takes the Tube Four Nights a Week – Shannon Savvas
2022 Allingham Poetry Competition Shortlist
selected from 426 entries
A Baby is Not Broken – Clara McShane
A Child’s Twelfth – Kenneth Somerville
A Random List of Things (That Do Not Define Me) – Stuti Sinha
Abra, Maidservant to Judith – Caroline Bracken
Absence – Breda Joyce
Behind Her Eyes – Maureen Curran
Boathouse – Seamus McDermott
Carpenter – Christian Wethered
First and Second Movement – James Finnegan
Gift – Caroline Smith
Incarnate – Glen Wilson
Kite Flying – Tim Dwyer
Late in the Day – Maureen Curran
Luctus – Peggy McCarthy
Malin Head – Lorraine Carey
Matryoshka – Partridge Boswell
Naming Love – Elise Carney Frazier
Ode to a Lamb – Breda Hyland
Old Lady – David Merrifield
Oystercatchers – Siobhan McNamara
Paddy Dunleavy’s Lament – Elizabeth Kearney
Pouffe – Lynda Tavakoli
Red River Blues – John D Kelly
Respondi Respondi – Breda Joyce
Seeds of Time – Patricia Doole
Shame – Emma Towey
Subbuteo Game – Seamus McDermott
The Hunter’s Bed – Jamie O’Halloran
The Superpower – Partridge Boswell
The Transaction – Pauline Hall
To a Song Thrush – John D Kelly
Tongue Tied – Moya Hegarty
Two Haibun – Jennifer Harrison
Waiting – Niamh Donnellan
Wedding Present – Seamus McDermott