MinK2023 - The Shortlists
We're delighted to announce the shortlisted entries in all four categories for our MinK2023 Writing Competition, Green Spaces in the City. All of the shortlisted entries have now been published in an anthology, available in both printed and e-book formats.
The winners, as selected by our judges. were announced at the Prizewinners Ceremony and Anthology Launch event on 15 April.
Fiction 20+
Karen Banfield - My Secret Hobby
K. Bax - Poultry Logs
Sam JT Butterworth - The Distress Signal
Terry Calvert - A Letter to Bill Bryson
Michael Geaney - Green, with Envy
Kath Kirkland - From Small Acorns
Rae Leaver Rahman - Roots
Rob Lowe - Milton Keynes
Susan Reid - Green Therapist
Clare Read - The Park
Poetry 20+
Liam Anslow-Sucevic - Home Vision
Sarah Davies - The Green
Stella Girvin - Come with me
Paul Grant - The Wanderer
Hannah Hopkins Jones - All flesh is grass, a collection of 3 haikus
Pippa Marshall - Two Haiku on Bradwell Abbey
Beth Norris - Green-tinted glasses
Guy Russell - The Other One
Sukie Shinn - COVID Spring
Felicity Williams - Archipelago
Fiction 14-19
Clea Grimshaw - The Silence
Ameera Spears - Garden Grace, Cold Embrace
Toby Shrimpton - Growth from the Machine
Amelia Tkaczyk - Immutable
Niamh Whelan - Walking and Thinking in Circles
Poetry 14-19
Lucie Arthurs - My Roots
Mary Rossiter - The Aftermath
Niamh Whelan - To all you ash-grey men