Open Competitions 2025 Results

Liz Ashcroft • 1 December 2025

Results of the 2025 OPEN competitions - Short Story & Poetry

The NAWG OPEN competitions have now been judged.  CASH PRIZES for 1st 2nd and 3rd in each category are being awarded. HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

Short Story
1st Simon Rees-Jones - ‘Shot at Dawn’
2nd Charles Kitching - ‘Never Mock the Clown’
3rd Jan Keegan - ‘Life Imitating Art’
Poetry
1st Simon Rees-Jones - ‘The Camera Clicked’
2nd Elin Lewington - ‘A Wild Green Thing’
3rd Gwyneth Box - ‘I Dream of My Mother’

Thank you to all those who entered. The winning entries will be published in our anthology, The Write Path 2025.


 

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