MinK2025 - The Results
We're delighted to announce the results of our MinK2025 Writing Competition.
All of the entries below are published in an anthology, MinK #5: Home, launched at
the competition Awards Ceremony on Thursday 10 April
as part of our Spring Festival 2025.
Fiction 20+
WINNER
The Street Party at the End of the World - Rosaleen Lynch
HIGHLY COMMENDED
The Home Maker - Daryl Johns
Where Are We - Karen Banfield
SHORTLISTED
Evolving - Martin Wallace
Exit Route - Julia Thorley
Going Home - Jerard Bretts
Home - Ken Rickard
Home, You Say - Sarah Toll
Passing Time by the Creeping Thyme - Sukie Shinn
The Ring Camera - Alex Mormoris
Fiction 14-19
WINNER
The Sand Demon - Toby Shrimpton
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Home? - Ugochi Anozie
Home Is Where the Love Is - Becky Cooling
SHORTLISTED
Home - Rose Bull
Seven Minutes - Jess Lawrie
The Doll House - Naia Makwana
Poetry 20+
WINNER
Hiraeth - Martin Johns
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Cuckoo's Heart - Felicity Williams
Hefted - Shelly Dennison
SHORTLISTED
A Homeless Beauty - Sukie Shinn
Bring Me Home - Roderick Groundes-Peace
Daffodils in Bletchley - Alison Porter
H.O.M.E. - Sarah Toll
Home - Dementia in Three Objects - Christopher Phillips
Stay - Kia Went
WCNSF - Rosie Douglas
Poetry 14-19
WINNER
A House In Need of a Home - Eleanor Miles
HIGHLY COMMENDED
A letter to my bedside lamp - Casey Stewart
Home Is Where the Books Are - Nadia Partyka
SHORTLISTED
A Humble Abode - Naia Makwana
Solace in the Gaze - Abigail Preston
Creative Non-Fiction 20+
WINNER
The Fire She Left Behind - Ondia Morris
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Following the Long Thread Home - Steph Lay
The Fire - Jerard Bretts
SHORTLISTED
And where do you... ? - Guy Russell
Home Vlog - Ralph Keats
Moving On (Ode to my Lair, Ode to my Lion) - G D Carrion