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The results are in!
Our sixth Christmas ghost story competition was the biggest one yet. Well done to each and every person who entered the competition. Choosing the longlist was difficult, cutting it down to the shortlist was almost impossible!
After three rounds of judging, with different judges at each stage, here are the results...
Adult First Place:
Last Christmas by Keith Porter
Children First Place:
I No Longer Remember (Our Duet, Sing It Please) by Emerald Daylily
Adult Second Place:
Outbreak by Richard Lakin
Children Runner-up:
If by Thea Losse
Adult Third Place:
The Howf by Ian Mitchell
Photography Winner:
Cathedral Churchyard at Night by Carole Tyrrell
Shortlisted stories (also appearing in the anthology):
A Home of My Own by Hannah Allies
No Escape by John Matthews
On the Stroke of Twelve by Richard Layton
Pawprints in the Snow by Jen Herron
The Boy by Marie Eriksson
The Crimson Rose by Emma Silvey
The Mirror by Sam Horton
The following stories and their authors were on the longlist
and missed out by nothing more than a whisker:
Do You Believe in Goats? by David McVey
Jul by Steve Burford
Sherlock Holmes and the Ghost of Christmas Past by Beth Robertson
The Inner Room by William Young
The Last Casualty by Tim Jarvis
The Little Children by Eve Chancellor
The Minister's Wife by Suzanne Parsons
The Silver Box by David Gillespie
Unique Gifts by Emma Silvey
Watch the Wall by Simon Horrocks